Al Loving

Al Loving, at Gary Snyder. Closes 12/15.

Al Loving on anaba 1/8/08. So great.

I missed it but if you like this you should also see Alan Shields' Maze at Greenberg Van Doren... they were both in High Times, Hard Times... I made a label of artists in that show whom I have seen shows of since, more than twenty posts so far and I think I missed labeling a few.

Al Loving.

There was a great Sven Lukin show at Gary Snyder earlier this year.

Guy Goodwin

he said this was the best light for it.

Guy Goodwin, at Brennan & Griffin. Closes 4/8.


Tania's Day






cardboard


Guy Goodwin and Stanley Whitney having a laugh.

Stanley Whitney is showing at Team.


they are like those upholstery chair things people sit up in bed with...

The small ones especially, none of which I photographed because they are under glass and too reflective, reminded me of the GREAT and way-underknown RVA artist Don Crow... simple bold colorful shapes collaged together with all the staples showing... I cant find any images on his website it is all more recent but I wrote about them in 2004.


Guy Goodwin

Reviewed in the NYTimes by Roberta Smith.

Alan Shields

Alan Shields, at Greenberg Van Doren.


Dance Bag, 1985

I've been loving his work since first seeing it in the High Times, Hard Times show at the Weatherspoon.




1984


detail


1980-81

He was into Buckminster Fuller's dome-style architecture and was imagining work built for future geodesic dome houses, spaces without conventional flat walls.


reverse


1971-73, cylinder... hangs by a center cable, slowly rotates




beads paint thread cloth


Alan Shields.

Totally primed me for loving Lauren Luloff

Abstract Masters

Frank Wimberly's For Barbara (1958), between a Frank Bowling and a Herbert Gentry.

African American Abstract Masters, at the Opalka Gallery, Sage College, in Albany.

This is the same show I saw split up in two places in NYC back in March... at Anita Shapolsky's and the Wilmer Jennings Gallery.


Joe Overstreet, Carry Back (1960) - this painting has already been 'favorited' three times since posting it to flickr a few days ago....


Frank Wimberly... Frank is the only surviving artist who was able to attend the opening... he's eighty-four!!


Ed Clark Louisiana Series (1978) back wall. Joe Overstreet Black Star Line (1990) front wall.

- Ed Clark at G.R. N'Namdi got a lot of comments
- I visited Joe Overstreet's studio
- definitely click on the Anita Shapolsky post to see some better images and a great photo of Anita.


Frank Wimberly talking about Ed Clark's Red, Black and Blue Movement (2009)... oh yeah Ed Clark is also eighty-four.

(Ed Clark had a great website but it's down hope it gets fixed)

Joe Overstreet

paint and collage on a nearly sheer screen mesh.

JOE OVERSTREET - posted on his work in High Times, Hard Times, at the Weatherspoon... next in A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument, at David Zwirner... most recently on his work included in the show of Abstract Masters at Anita Shapolsky (that show is still open and doesn't close until April 24th)... and now here is his studio!


soaring studio space


these are beautiful. painted and almost entirely covered with fabric collaged over something sheer.

Here is a detail of the screen piece at Anita Shapolsy... click on it it's gorgeous.


Joe Overstreet... wait what is that he is holding??? he took a second card for his studio to maybe get some ideas from. he said you should take whatever ideas you want from whoever. he credited Frank Stella with helping him to get off the canvas... i'm paraphrasing.


shape


texture and patterns


larger.


table of treasures. stuff from all over.


egyptian pyramid construction. he's really into simple construction methods and processes. he talked about egyptian pyramids and indian burial mounds (he's part choctaw). his dad was in construction and would use ropes in pouring concrete.


Joe Overstreet

UPDATE: Lori Ellison on her visit with Joe Overstreet.

Abstract Masters at Anita Shapolsky

Ed Clark, Red, Black and Blue Movement, 2009. Nice discussion of Ed Clark in the comments of this 12/15/08 post.

African American Abstract Masters, at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, through April 24. There is a concurrent show at Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba... I'll post some photos of that next week. All the work - plus or minus a few pieces - will be shown together in November at Opalka Gallery in Albany.


Joe Overstreet, Black Star Line, 1990.


Betty Blayton and Joe Overstreet. Blayton had this cool piece at a show in Albany.

The exhibition space is Anita's home.


Anita Shapolsky... getting ready to go to the fair.


Joe Overstreet, Pearl River, 2003.

Painted and collaged on screen mesh... like that big piece in the excellent Zwirner show... the painted lines and collage elements cast shadows on the wall.


Shazam... paint fills in the squares and creates a zig-zag lightning bolt line.