Painters Threesome: Samuel Jablon, Michael Berryhill and Ellen E Rand

Veröffentlicht am 28.04.2016

James Kalm is out on a spring Sunday afternoon, visiting galleries on the Lower East Side and Wiliamsburg, when he decided to turn on the camera. Kalm starts this tour with “Life is Fine” an exhibition of textual paintings with added glass tile and mirror, by Samuel Jablon. These works display a painterly concern as well as text elements that balance between the letter and the brushstroke. Viewers are then brought along to the east end of Rivington Street for a glance at new large paintings by Michael Berryhill at Kansas Gallery. With “Something of the Feather” Berryhill bumps up the scale, and increases the complexity of his compositions for this group of high keyed new works. Finally, a pedal across the Williamsburg Bridge brings us to Figureworks Gallery for a walk-through of “New Works” by Ellen E. Rand. Rand has been an essential member of the Williamsburg Community for decades, presenting the works of many local, national and international artists with her gallery Art 101. Though working as a gallerist, and curator, Rand has continued to peruse her own work which combines a sensual figuration melded with distilled and subtle abstraction. This program was recorded on April 24, 2016. A musical introduction is provided by Coyote & Crow.