24. Juni 2018

HELL ON EARTH Jeanette Mundt and Ned Vena at GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE



James Kalm, in recent episodes has been pondering what looks to be a dialectical set of sensibilities being expressed among some of New York’s emerging painters. On the one hand, there have been several shows that feature what your correspondent has categorized as “material painting”, thick, chunky, direct applications that highlight the properties of pigment. Conversely, there have also been a plethora of high profile exhibitions that present works employing photographic images and mechanical means of fabrication like digital, and silkscreen printing. “Hell on Earth” might be an unintentional set of pictures contrasting the “hand painted oil” versus the “photo derived digitally printed image”. Jeanette Mundt supplies the hand painted examples, using blown-up fragments of husband Ned’s tattoos, riffing on his own set of digital print highbreds that depict those very same tattoos. The self referential and self reflective nature of this show is like a Pop Art hall of mirrors, questioning not only the methods of creating painting, but the semantics and ontology of photography and how we perceive images. This program was recorded June 17, 2018. A musical introduction is provided by Bandits on the Run.

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