Veröffentlicht am 05.04.2017
James Kalm is an unapologetic paint-head, he can’t help it. He also has a passion and history for tracking the meanderings of the New York art community. Both these proclivities were fulfilled with this bike ride through the Lower East Side. Stopping first at the new Marinaro Gallery, viewers are invited to peruse the latest offerings form Kianja Strobert in her exhibit “The Button”. Strobert paints moderate sized paintings on deep stretchers, with a delicious melding of mediums and approaches. She also works with papier-mache and acrylic paint on metal lath to create small planer forms that bulge into body casts and are sometimes attached to the paintings. Front Room Gallery was a longtime member of the Williamsburg Gallery scene, but recently decided to pull up stakes and relocate to the Lower East Side. Thomas Broadbent’s “Phylum” is their debut show on Hester Street. This body of work features large scale watercolors that play the line between academic high naturalism and Pop-Surrealism. Finally, it’s after closing time when your correspondent sleazes into Regina Rex and turns on the camera to capture the last twenty minutes of EJ Houser’s show of paintings. These works have a pixilated appearance, a sensitive yet discordant pallet, and are based on rough ink drawings that are spontaneously generated by the artist as a means of bringing language and image into equilibrium. This program was recorded April 4, 2017 on the Lower East Side. A musical introduction is provided by the Meetles http://www.meetles.com/abouttheband.html
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