jameskalmroughcut | Paul Corio at McKENZIE Ward Shelley Douglas Paulson at PIEROGI @jameskalmroughcut | Uploaded September 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
James Kalm after nearly six months of a prolonged “lock-down,” is trying to get back to some level of normalcy. In that mode he’s back dogin’ the Lower East Side, on a Sunday afternoon, bringing viewers along for the beginnings of the Fall 2020 art season.
This tour begins with a run-through of Paul Corio’s “What Kind of Fool Am I” at McKinzie. This selection of works features paintings that although system based have a whimsical and arbitrary component that shatters the rigor. Using numerical elements, like the placements of horses in races, Corio extrapolates these patterns into color spectrums that are then rendered into the paintings.
Continuing on to Suffolk Street we’ll investigate the clever and paranoid installation of “The Room Where It Happened,” by War Shelley and Douglas Paulson. To paraphrase Eric Hoffer “They may not believe in GOD, but they sure believe in the Devil,” this pre-election diorama collects all the bogy men and women of the Right, all the attached conspiracy theories, and transferal notions of political corruption, and presents them within a receding office which is, in reality, a comical cardboard prop. Should we take this seriously (?) or accept is as what it is, the art of artifice…
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James Kalm after nearly six months of a prolonged “lock-down,” is trying to get back to some level of normalcy. In that mode he’s back dogin’ the Lower East Side, on a Sunday afternoon, bringing viewers along for the beginnings of the Fall 2020 art season.
This tour begins with a run-through of Paul Corio’s “What Kind of Fool Am I” at McKinzie. This selection of works features paintings that although system based have a whimsical and arbitrary component that shatters the rigor. Using numerical elements, like the placements of horses in races, Corio extrapolates these patterns into color spectrums that are then rendered into the paintings.
Continuing on to Suffolk Street we’ll investigate the clever and paranoid installation of “The Room Where It Happened,” by War Shelley and Douglas Paulson. To paraphrase Eric Hoffer “They may not believe in GOD, but they sure believe in the Devil,” this pre-election diorama collects all the bogy men and women of the Right, all the attached conspiracy theories, and transferal notions of political corruption, and presents them within a receding office which is, in reality, a comical cardboard prop. Should we take this seriously (?) or accept is as what it is, the art of artifice…
#jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcuts #contemporaryart
