Glenn Goldberg

Object 4, 1995

Glenn Goldberg, at Luise Ross, through May 23rd.

Object 6, 1995

chelsea, june 2007 - group shows

Jon Kessler, in The Line of Time, and The Plane of Now, at Wallspace -

The front room has a flat-screen tv showing Edward Hopper's famous painting, with video stuff happening where the background street-scene should be - movement, light, shininess, kinetic stuff, maybe computer stuff, looks random.

This sculpture (pictured above) is in the back room... the same Hopper painting, but with the street-scene painted out, and things moving around, back and forth. Tiny video cameras are mounted on some of the moving parts. The light and movement filmed by the tiny cameras mounted on the sculpture is blue-screened into the background of the Hopper painting... that is what is shown on the video monitor in the front room, filmed by a camera mounted across from the sculpture, focused directly on the painting (not showing any of the sculpture).

If someone walks between the sculpture and the video camera across from it, that person blocks out the painting for a moment...

it's hard to explain.

It looks like a robot, a relative or descendant of one of those Nam June Paik's.


Two (or three?) of the video cameras; the little black things, one trained on the piece of tinfoil as it is pulled up and down, the other swings back and forth in front of that concave mirror.


Man Ray, in Concrete Works, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, through July 27th.

Here is another one.


Jessica Stockholder, in Concrete Works, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

The Albert Oehlen in this show is for sale at $425,000, but for that much money you could buy TWO cars in that unbelievable Chelsea car showroom.

Green Lotus. Does Albert Oehlen get half, or is that like a re-sale? Do his paintings generally sell for that much? If I were an artist like that I would have a lot of nice cars.


Stefan Saffer, in In Context, at Pavel Zoubok, through August 10th - I had seen his work on Barry's flickr site and really liked it, so I was happy to see this. James and Barry have been following his work for a while...

Also liked seeing Tony Berlant, John Evans, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Simon Neville, and Jack Tworkov. It's a huge show, almost sixty artists included.

There is a small Al Souza which I initially mistook for a possible Arturo Herrera, then circled through the show and came upon a Herrera. The Souza is the better Herrera.


i forget, in Rare Birds, at Luise Ross, through July 27th - the premise is maybe a little corny - everything has birds in it! - but the work is good. Way too many charming pieces to name all their names.... but it was especially nice to see a second John Evans that day (the first was in the Pavel Zoubak collage show).

The snake in the piece above is a twisted piece of tinfoil; the red sun and star I think are sawdust, or sand.

Last time I was here they had the John Dilg show, he is included in this show as well.


Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, in Three for Society, at 303 Gallery, through July 27th - something creepy, like a leather mask or something...both his paintings are cartoony but creepy like that. I like the way he lets these tiny controlled drips happen, and then works them into the composition... for example, in the piece above you can maybe see that little drip of blue in the shoulder, and in this piece you can see the oily ass-crack sweat.

There is so much tension in that drip of blue in the shoulder.

I also liked the Mary Heilmann.


Josh Smith, in Irreversible, at Stellan Holm - good abstract painting show... they wouldn't let me take pictures, this Josh Smith one was snapped as the guy said "No Pictures", so it sucks, sorry.

This Josh Smith so clearly has the name spelled out, so I asked if it was made before or after the work included in his recent solo at Lehmann Maupinn, in which none of the (possible) text is legible. They said this piece was made after those pieces...

Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to focus on this show as much as I'd have liked, because I ran into someone and got distracted. There was a nice stripe/stain glittery piece by John Armleder.

Curated by Niandra LaDes.

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.)