Cristina de Miguel at FREDERICKS & FREISER Ben Godward at SEAN SCULLY STUDIO Chris Dorland at LYLES

James Kalm is out pedaling around town in freezing weather, but he’s still keeping his eyes open for novel and innovative approaches to painting. In this program viewers can tag along and experience video tours of three exhibitions that mine a wide range of painterly potential. Cristina de Miguel’s New Paintings at Fredericks & Freiser is a chanced to see how the legacy of Neo-Expression has adapted and been influenced by the current trends of Street Art, abject collage, and Post Ab-Ex painting. Her gritty scenes of figures echo visual icons of folk tails and carry a humorous cartoon-like innocence. Ben Godward practices sculpture in the gap between material painting and process art. This latest group of works feature his “poured pictures” a process that uses the natural forces of gravity, chemistry, and timing to create see through planks of multi-colored resin which recall some masters of Post Painterly abstraction like Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Lewis, and even Jackson Pollock. Finally, we’ll trot through CIVILIAN, a grouping of new media works by Chris Dorland at Lyles & King. Collecting the remnants and butt ends of mass electric media, Dorland presents us with a series video loops and large format digitally printed montages of video static. These TV pictures have been mangled by happenstance and the advertising models whose enticements to buy have been fractured and perverted by “the ghost in the machine”. This program was recorded January 21, and January 25, 2018.