Greg Lindquist “Of ash and coal” at LENNON, WEINBERG, INC

James Kalm is riding hid bike home from a busy day of gallery visits on West 24th Street when out of Lennon, Weinberg Gallery steps Greg Lindquist. It’s after closing time but your half-assed reporter convinces Lindquist to give viewers an impromptu tour of his exhibition “Of ash and coal”. Since a massive toxic ash spill in North Carolina in 2014, the artist’s ire has been focused on coal fired electrical generating facilities, many around his own home state of North Carolina. This body of work balances the artistic function of encouraging critical discourse with a painterly aesthetic that includes the use of toxic ash as a medium, the historical legacy of American landscape painting, as well as the conceptual use of mediated photo-mechanical processes of representation. Lindquist discusses his process and environmental concerns along with ideas about contemporary painting. This program was recorded March 31, 2018 in Chelsea.