Monday, October 31, 2022

Back in NYC, Checking out Galleries

Not really back in NYC. But I had been in September. Got a really great opportunity to visit and to be a part of a great man's exhibition. I hadn't really given it much thought as to my coming back to NYC after 2019, but then a good friend and colleague asked me to write an essay for his catalog he was getting ready to publish during his exhibition at Sean Scully's studio in Chelsea. Robert C. Morgan. I'll post another one specifically about this opportunity and how it blossomed into this wonderful trip. But for now I wanted to share with you a few specific exhibitions I decided to film while there. The first is Lucy Bull who had an exhibition at Kordansky Gallery, which was my first time being in his gallery, obviously I haven't been to any LA galleries so it was cool that he had got a space in NYC and made this exhibition happen. If you haven't been to his space, you should, it's very well designed. The paintings were full of life and brimming with details you could swim in. These definitely looked like paintings that gave the artist a wonderful moment while making. These paintings didn't look like anyone else's which is a big thing in my book. I'm big on Originality and these paintings definitely had that going. 

 

 
 
 
The next exhibition I enjoyed was the giant paintings of Jorge Galindo at Vito Schnabel. Having only seen his work online, it was most certainly a blessing to be able to take these giant flower paintings in. Jorge definitely has his own way of making some serious paintings. You can tell from the energy in these that Jorge definitely seems to me to be a painter who paints with a smile on his face. You can see the enjoyment in the work. The only thing that bothered me about the exhibition was the hanging. For paintings this huge, you'd think they would be hung low on the wall but they definitely weren't. Making viewing a bit difficult, but in person you could still get a lot from these paintings. Glad that I got to finally see his paintings, now I see them so differently online.
 

 

Strolling around Chelsea. I always pay a special visit to Paula Cooper Gallery, since she is the reason for the season when it comes to great painters of the 60-70's. This time she was exhibiting a tremendous show of Sol LeWitt. I hadn't seen much of his sculpture like these but the way the exhibition was assembled really made for one heck of a banger of an exhibition. The sculpture made me think of icebergs floating in a sea of his shape and colored wall works. I think if you listen carefully you'll even hear one of the directors talking about it. They were so kind to move out of the way, but frankly I should have just asked him if I could record him talking about it. I only wish I could have come back a few more times to take it in. It's sad to go into a gallery of this level and not seeing many people in there also taking it in, as Sol is such a tremendous artist, growing out of his desire to be an abstract expressionist, but it never really left him, he just channeled it into his work he became known for. 

 


Just a few blocks and I found myself around the Lisson Gallery, another gallery I hadn't been to since they opened in NYC. FINALLY after all this time, I got to take in an exhibition of one of my favorite painters, Jason Martin. A beautiful exhibition of a masterful painter sharing a group composition in paint that to me had a lot to do with musical composition along with so many other connections. Most just saw a group of paintings they said all looked alike, but they are far from that, these are a group of paintings celebrating the freedom of being a painter, a freedom of movement, liberty in the brush and a love of color and energy. These paintings are just oozing with energy flowing from his body movement. Another painter you can tell just loves to be in the moment of creation. 

 


I hope you enjoy these exhibition videos I made. My desire is to share exhibitions I loved seeing. I try not to talk during the video, but sometimes I think I need to. I actually did for the Lucy Bull exhibition, but unfortunately the video itself had been messed up because I made the first mistake during filming, an unclean lens. Not doing that again.

 



 

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