Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Cave Painting NY #1


Cave Painting, organized by Bob Nickas, with Ajay Kurian. Deep below W 25th Street.

This is the first of a two-part show. Next month they re-hang the cave with Joanne Greenbaum, Chris Martin, Olivier Mosset, RH Quaytman, Roger White... many anaba favorites. Most - all? - of these artists are included in Nickas' Painting Abstraction.

Varda Caivano
Varda Caivano


Stanley Whitney

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Chris Vasell


Anja Schworer (?)

Ajay Kurian
Artist and curator Ajay Kurian.... in the cave!!!

Chuck Webster
Chuck Webster - liked his show at the Berkshire Museum.

Circus on Mars. Cro-mirski make alien cave panting gud. Me like Cro-mirski. Why no Cro-mirski in deep hole?

11 comments:

  1. The one you're unsure of is Chris Vasell. The painting is actually based on a work by Charles Burchfield!

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  2. thanks i fixed it. liked his face painting with the sliced stickers too.

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  3. looks very interesting and i am excited about part two.
    i really dig stanley W.

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  4. me too i want to go to that part 2 opening.

    quaytman has a 1-week show at miguel abreu but when i went to see it they were setting up chairs for a lecture and abreu wouldn't let me look.

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  5. They are a bit snooty and self important at Abreau good work but not a welcoming place. They don't really care about the person walking in I have observed.

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  6. "The painting is actually based on a work by Charles Burchfield!"

    Oh, how strange.

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  7. Don’t complain, and don’t explain. If this represents Nickas’ view of where contemporary “abstract” painting is, then I’d have to say, he’s a few years behind the curve (not that I don’t like and admire many of the painters represented). This would have been great to see in 2004. A lot of these people have already been in the Biennials, Greater New Yorks and other mega shows. I’ll make a point of dropping in and checking it out.

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  8. Oh, you people move too fast for me. Is it 2004 already?

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  9. James, I couldn't agree more

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  10. ha!

    I like caves.

    I am still in 2001.

    I think the color stuff is supposed to reflect as in local color - lots of artists have done stuff liek that including TUrell, who needs to finish his stupid crater so I can do shrooms in it.

    Burchfield is trippy. SO is grant wood.

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  11. Wish I could get there to see this show. It's always good to see shows about PAINTING and ABSTRACTION.

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