Veröffentlicht am 03.03.2017
James Kalm appreciates the serendipitous happenings that crop up in his wanderings through the New York art scene. On an unseasonably warm Sunday on the Lower East Side, your correspondent chances on a pair of shows that bear an unexpected aesthetic resonance. Simon Evans™ “Soul Gym” at James Cohan is a creative collaboration between Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan. Their densely built up collages contain a mass of poetic phrases, ephemera, trade marks and other such detritus, all obsessively glued together in pads of pulp so thick as to stand off the picture plain by nearly an inch. Deconstructing these mash-ups, observers are confronted with bits and pieces of today’s compulsive self-improvement and VGP (Very Good Person) appeals.
Ray Hamilton’s drawings are the straight ahead graphic expressions of a self taught artist with an innate and elegant sense of color and composition. Though basing his works on everyday subjects like coins, mice, cats or his own shoes, and hands, Hamilton strokes the page with ball point pens, and graphite to an extent that the forms are embossed into the surfaces. Limited to the narrow color selection of the ballpoints, he builds gradations of tone with scrims of crosshatching. Most pieces also have various notations in a hauntingly poetic personal text. A musical introduction is provided by Desmond Ivy. This program was recorded February 26, 2017
Ray Hamilton’s drawings are the straight ahead graphic expressions of a self taught artist with an innate and elegant sense of color and composition. Though basing his works on everyday subjects like coins, mice, cats or his own shoes, and hands, Hamilton strokes the page with ball point pens, and graphite to an extent that the forms are embossed into the surfaces. Limited to the narrow color selection of the ballpoints, he builds gradations of tone with scrims of crosshatching. Most pieces also have various notations in a hauntingly poetic personal text. A musical introduction is provided by Desmond Ivy. This program was recorded February 26, 2017
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