Monday, June 02, 2008

James Kalm visits Eric Sall at ATM... plus, Before and After photos

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James Kalm visits Eric Sall at ATM.

PLUS: Eric is a re-worker...

Eric Sall
before

Eric Sall
after

Eric Sall
before


after

RELATED: Eric Sall 2008 ATM show reviewed in the Village Voice. Eric's LMCC studio. Nadja Sayej review of Eric's previous ATM show, for artUS.

5 comments:

  1. This post provides readers with a lot of insight into the painting process. As Kalm points out Sall's use of contrasts really invigorates the work.

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  2. god damn I loved that show.

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  3. i was reading somewhere about how steven parrino would show work and when the stuff that didn't sell came back to him he would completely re-work (demolish) it and show it again... the "same" painting would get shown many times... and that it would be interesting to try to find documentary images of the same painting(s) on exhibit in various states.

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  4. I completely sympathize with painters who feel like their paintings are never finished. The second you make a new mark on a 'finished' work you open up Pandora's Box again. Also, deciding when something is finished is often the product of many factors, looming deadlines, overcrowded workspaces, the urge to move on, etc.

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  5. Supposedly De Kooning went to some museum, saw a painting of his, left to buy some paint and went back to the museum and started "fixing" things! I don't know if that is true.

    I'm a hopeless reworker too.

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