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James Kalm finishes up in the studio, hurries through making a batch of glutton free pizza crust, jumps on his bike and pedals to the west side of Chelsea, to bring viewers along for a last minutes stroll through “New Capri, Capri, Free Capri” a trio series of new paintings by Mark Grotjahn. This body of work is a departure from Grotjahn’s previous “Face” series in its emphasis on an allover composition and the implications of a squirted grid. The pictures seem to overlay a quasi mechanical pattern over an Abstract Expressionist field forcing a comparison between the measured and the felt. These new paintings also bare an extreme accumulation of physical pigment which brings their graphic statements into a gritty and hand manipulated material domain. A musical introduction is provided by Rasheed and the Jazz Collective. This program was recorded November 1, 2018