Lori Taschler "Abject Object" at NEXTTONOTHING GALLERY

James Kalm is out on the Lower East Side when he happens upon a pop-up bar celebrating the “anti-holiday” spirit. Meanwhile, just up the block, nextonothing gallery is hosting the opening of Lori Taschler’s “Abject Object”. Taschler received her first recognition during the early nineteen-eighties in Downtown’s East Village Art scene. Known for her richly encrusted paintings of isolated objects in bare monochromatic interiors, these works have a presence that mingles Surrealistic dread with a painterly tonality that recalls the work of Giorgio Morandi. Many of the early works in this exhibition are on panels with frames that are also heavily painted and stressed, giving them an aged and worn look that adds to their aesthetic isolation and creating a feeling that they are time capsules from some fictitious past. New works, that display how Taschler has developed beyond her signature style, have a light ephemeral paint handling that displays a fantasy content in an atmospheric space.