Geometric Progressions

EJ Hauser

Geometric Progressions, at Edward Thorp, through November 16th.


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EJ Hauser

EJ Hauser, at John Davis Gallery, on anaba 6/1/2009.
EJ Hauser, in Unbreak My Heart, at Pluto, on anaba 1/9/2009.
EJ Hauser, in Party at Phong's, at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, on anaba 10/13/2008.


Rosanna Bruno




Rosanna Bruno

Rosanna Bruno, at John Davis Gallery, on anaba 6/1/2009.
Rosanna Bruno, in Unbreak My Heart, on my flickr, 1/2009.


Patrick Brennan


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Patrick Brennan, at Nicole Klagsbrun, on anaba 8/15/2010.
Patrick Brennan, at Monya Rowe, on anaba 6/14/2010.
Patrick Brennan, FAZES, on anaba 12/9/2009.
Patrick Brennan, at Artist's Space, on anaba 2/28/2009.
Patrick Brennan, at Heskin Contemporary, on anaba 1/12/2009.


Jered Sprecher - no sense of scale here... this larger painting is much grander in life.

Jered Sprecher, with Steven Zevitas Gallery, at Volta, on anaba 3/10/2010.
Jered Sprecher, at Jeff Bailey Gallery, on anaba 4/9/2007.
Jered Sprecher, at ADA Gallery, on anaba 12/20/2006.


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Jered Sprecher

Jered Sprecher, at Steven Zevitas Gallery, at Volta.

Jered Sprecher on anaba 12/20/2006.
Jered Sprecher on anaba 4/09/07.


Gina Beavers - when am i gonna see a Gina Beavers show somewhere??


Les Rogers


Jered Sprecher

chelsea, april 2007, #3

Three good galleries/shows in the same building - I liked these galleries, the size and vibe, the floors and lighting. Plus I liked the art.


Roy Colmer at Mitchell Algus - Roy Colmer was in High Times, Hard Times... so it was nice to see this this show of a bunch of his optic paintings... and the video, which totally relates to the paintings, with the two women lining up with each other and melting into each other.

These thirty-five-(plus)-year old paintings made the Jim Turrell holo-lines look like ass.

(Betty Tompkins is partially visible on the left... she has the next show at Mitchell Algus)


Jered Sprecher at Jeff Bailey - Whoah! This show looked excellent! I was surprised at some of the scale... the PaintersNYC painting was much bigger than expected, and some of the other ones that I had only seen on-line were smaller than I thought they would be.

Now I've seen Jered's work in Miami, Richmond, and NYC... this newest Jeff Bailey exhibition was definitely the best yet. A much cleaner installation than at ADA... with really good pace/rythm to the whole thing.


Those two in the center have computer references, one with the + cursor, and the other is like digitized or something. Maybe Wendy will get some better installation shots.... she wrote an essay for the show. Was I there the same day Mountain Man visited (?)... it looked like his name in the book, but it was hard to read.


John Dilg at Luise Ross - This space was full of these small calm paintings... they remind of someone from the past, but I can't put my finger on it... maybe Klee or Arp? Someone from that time... the forms, especially the tree forms. They have the subdued palette and stillness of Morandi, but that's not who I'm thinking of. Maybe Baziotes? I guess it isn't anybody specific... just a feel for the time.

Some of them also have a... not cartoony... but more like an animation cell quality - epecially the outlined water - which contributes to the frozen moment feel. Argh.. there is an artist in Richmond I want to reference but can't remember her name.

(just went to the website and saw that Luise Ross also shows TL Solien, whom i like a lot.)

Painting as Paradox, Remembered... PLUS Jered Sprecher opening tonite

Remember Lauri Firstenberg's Painting As Paradox? I was in the States from Japan doing a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, came down to NYC to see Painting as Paradox, meet with Luis Camnitzer at the Drawing Center (he didn't like my stuff, but was very good)... see some other shows. I saw Thomas Hirschhorn's Cavemanman on that visit.

The Artists Space show, Painting as Paradox, was all over the place.. I remember being surprised that I was not impressed with what was shown, thinking.. this is New York?... and can't recall any specific pieces now except, um, David Nicholson's. It's funny to read that list of included artists and see how some of them have become much better known, that many of them remain unknown (to me).. and also to think about all of those painters who are now well-known but were not at that time, and aren't in the show. So much changes in just five years, less than five years... closer to four years.

Here is the NYTimes review, here is the Jerry Saltz review.

What was at the Drawing Center at that time? I remember not liking it, or not getting it... okay, I just looked it up.. HERE it is.

THERE ARE SO MANY ARTISTS.

almost immediate update: I also saw Drawing Now , in Queens, on that visit.

PLUS! Jered Sprecher has a show opening TONIGHT at Jeff Bailey...


The last time I posted Jered's work, there were some good comments, so I'll re-post them now -

Anonymous said...
It looked like he worked really hard on those, what technique.Ada really knows how to find them. Sorry for my sarcasm but I am still reeling from reading about Saatchi buying an Eric Sall for 12g's in Miami. It's for a show called "Crappy Looking Expensive Paintings". I am so bitter... Mr.Bitter

vc said...
I like them: THe ptgs in this post more than most of those in the link. I can't tell anything about technique in this photo, but I look forward to seeing them. Unless Mr. Bitter refers to Sprecher's laxness: he doesn't need to pretty things up.kind of a Raoul De Keyser / Giorgio Morandi vibe, which seems to be popular nowadays -- the easily discernible, but never air-tight visual system, the low-key colors and generally contemplative experience. This of course gaurantees nothing.Mr. Bitter, if you are permanently bitter, 24/7, like I am, it kind of stops being an issue. I think Sphrecher is quite different from Sall.

vc said...
But maybe they do wear a little thin after a while. There is a certain cleverness in some of them.

Anonymous said...
I am the captain of bitter, only this guy Martin might be more bitter.Thanks for your post, I now have a new comment" Hey Jered! Stop ripping off Raoul De Keyser!"yours truly-Mr.Bitter p.s. I think I like Sprecher more than Sall.

martin said...
ADA... and find them and find them and find them.I generally like Eric's paintings, and am not surprised by the Saatchi purchase. He's been very very fortunate. I'm not bitter about it, definitely don't think his work is crappy or too expensive, but it is easy to feel frustrated and jealous (not specifically of Eric, just in general).mr. bitter - i am not more bitter than you, sorry.

vc said...
I think my De Keyser comment was of limited value, as are all comparisons. I don't think it's a case of ripping off, but more of a. . . zeitgeist? of anti-bombastid painting. My statement of bitterness was not directed against anyone in particular. I think it is just an undeniable reaction. It does not prevent anyone from making valid criticisms, provided we don't pretend to be objective.

Anonymous said...
Then I win! I am the most bitter. I like to see realism, or at least a show of talent.I question the skill level of some of these artist.Ada has a salon show up at Plant Zero right now and its half crap. I am not knocking everyone there. There is some definite real talent there.Up close some pieces were not up to gallery grade by a mile. I could probably learn something from you vc.

Anonymous said...
yum gallery grade, its what i put in my car everytime i fill up. i think Sall is alright, definately not earthshattering or anything but not bad. expensive? nah, we should all ask more. you know VC i think the Sprechers will wear thin and quickly, perhaps if we could see a lot of them at once they would grow on us but i'm not sure.

Jered Sprecher

Jered Sprecher is showing at ADA this month. I like his paintings.... feeling kind of brain dead at the moment, nothing to say more than that. Somebody say something smart in the comments, smart-ass is fine too.

He's GOOD!

Knoxville!

John Perrault writes up his recent visit to Knoxville, TN and the new Art Gallery of Knoxville, comparing it to Philadelphia's Slought Foundation.

Jered Sprecher, the painter whose work I saw in Wendy Cooper's room at Scope Miami, is based in Knoxville. He's one of many good painters on faculty at University of Tennessee. They have an excellent artist-in-residence program also. Look at that list of painters.

Hey! Sukenya Best is studying printmaking there!

ABMB: Scope, Miami, 2005

Very nice Mark Kostabi placement above lamp at (?). Here is a closer view of it.

The wonderful James Castle at Fleisher/Ollman. I have long loved this gallery.


Chris Dorland with his work at Wendy Cooper. The one behind the piece he is showing is the piece that was featured on the cover of Artpapers. Ed Winkleman's room at Aqua had a smaller, pink Dorland that I liked a little better than these. Lots of argumentative comments on Ed's recent post on Dorland.

Jered Sprecher is a Knoxville artist who had A LOT of excellent paintings here and I'm sorry I didn't get any photos, but be sure to check them out here.


Stefan Stux scoping Scope. Whose work? Whose room?

Photographs by Raissa Venables at Herman and Wagner (formerly SPH), from Berlin. She took a picture of my shoes at a later party.


Orly Cogan at (?). This is Orly Cogan, right?

Creepy and intense photo by (?) at (?). Somebody please fill me in on the artists and gallerists whose names I am missing.


Maureen Cavanaugh at 31Grand.

Getting asked to leave the front of Scope Miami by the organizer. I was only set up here (with some paintings) for a little while, but John Ravenal came by and said hello and Jerry Saltz whizzed in and out. This guy was freaking out a little bit, nobody at Aqua or Basel cared.

I didn't get a photo of the Mickalene Thomas swamp panther at The Proposition, but I loved it. The color was so rich, the image so fluid - it was sort of like an animation cell without the clarity. I'm not sure how she did it exactly, what the mediums were.