David Humphrey at FREDRICKS & FREISER Helen Frankenthaler at GAGOSIAN Franz West at DAVID ZWIRNER
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James Kalm is slipping up and down the streets of West Chelsea, on a late winter afternoon/evening, when he decides to check out some shows, and bring viewers along for the ride. “Ass Backwards” at Fredericks & Freiser is Dave Humphrey’s sixth show with the gallery. Your correspondent has been keeping an eye on this artist’s work since meeting him in the early 1980s, and is always surprised. Melding a sardonic sense of humor with references to historic modes of painting, Humphrey creates “…the language of contemporary art: postmodernism, post-postmodernism, and the aporia of hyper-pluralism.”
With just minutes before closing, we run across West 24th Street, and dip into “Drawing within Nature: Paintings from the 1990s” an impressive exhibition of late works by Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian. Since the publication of “Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art” the hunger for works by these pioneer painters has become insatiable. Finally, we visit David Zwirner for the opening of “Franz West Echolalia, 2010 Paper-mȃché, foam, gauze, cardboard, wood, steel, acrylic paint, foam and linen” an installation of seven over life sized whimsical sculptures.
This program was recorded March 9-11 2023. #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk
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🙂 Much enjoyed. Thank you Kate. 🙂 Thank you James.
Fantastic Frankenthalers
Very nice to see David Humphrey's work covered so well, now have a new appreciation...thanks Kate & J.K.
The Frankenthaler works are devastatingly astounding!
Thank You Kate, of course!...Happy to see the Franz West work, always like his explorations...
Nothing beats a good Franz West piece of art, thank you God ! 😊 no mention of material, but I believe these are Paper Mache.
You combining these 2 shows .....is a wonderful contrast !! Thank you kate.
Beautiful show, many thanks for posting and love the commentary. Best wishes from Donegal, Ireland.
Thank you Kate! ❤
Love the David Humphrey’s work..
Thanks for your patient and thorough tour of all these shows, James. David's work was interesting - kind of reminding me of Kippenberger, Trenton Hancock, or even a bit of Salle. I never "got" Frankenthaler... perhaps her ethereal breakthrough was too easily mimicked by zillions of not-so-great artists who came after, spoiling whatever fresh rips in the firmament she made.
@jameskalmroughcut
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Kippenberger was an artist that also echoed fro me...JK
davids stuff is fantastic !
Thank you and as always thank you, Kate!
super art ✌
Wonderful tour. Thank you very much.
Art is an unanswered question with innumerable answers
Great vids, greetings Vancouver, BC, Canada
Frankenthalers were nice. At first I thought these were early works by her seeing how they are more coming out of abstract expressionists like Rothko and Pollock and Dekooning. Her larger earlier works have more open expanses and are going in a different direction I think. Glad the one gallery is now providing chairs.
dudes as Gagosian were so rude lol. Also loved seeing the coolish cats of New York at David Zwirner. The lad sitting on the floor was brilliant
DOPE
"Public domain": Salle, Sasnal, Plagens, etc.
David Humphrey-Animals are superior to humans in nature, using animals as a negative metaphor is ignorant.the artist needs a little bit more education and so does the gallerist. whole theme is not enlightened and abusive to nature.
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humanity is abusive to nature. You're not any better.