jameskalmroughcut | Rob de Oude "Unison" at McKENZIE Paul Pagk at MIGUEL ABREU GALLERY @jameskalmroughcut | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
James Kalm has noticed a slight shift in the style of works commonly being shown by some of the city’s most engaged galleries. Over the last several years a plethora of figurative work has saturated much of the commercial gallery space. Whether it’s “bad” painting, Pop Surrealism, naïve naturalism, or versions of Katzian realism, much of this may have been in response to the collapse of “Zombie Abstraction,” the last iteration of non-figurative painting that flamed out in the mid twenty-teens.
“Unison” Rob de Oude’s latest presentation at McKinzie Fine Art focuses on the horizontal and vertical vectors of the picture plane. These obsessively constructed works, are pictures woven of brushstrokes, that use a sophisticated color theory and technique to create illusions of radiance and illumination.
Paul Pagk builds up slabs of mysterious hues that are incised with geometric linear designs. The works witness a visual distillation accented by the accumulation of layered color which refines and simplifies the structure while complicating the ground color and surface of these pieces. This program was recorded February 5, 2023. #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk
James Kalm has noticed a slight shift in the style of works commonly being shown by some of the city’s most engaged galleries. Over the last several years a plethora of figurative work has saturated much of the commercial gallery space. Whether it’s “bad” painting, Pop Surrealism, naïve naturalism, or versions of Katzian realism, much of this may have been in response to the collapse of “Zombie Abstraction,” the last iteration of non-figurative painting that flamed out in the mid twenty-teens.
“Unison” Rob de Oude’s latest presentation at McKinzie Fine Art focuses on the horizontal and vertical vectors of the picture plane. These obsessively constructed works, are pictures woven of brushstrokes, that use a sophisticated color theory and technique to create illusions of radiance and illumination.
Paul Pagk builds up slabs of mysterious hues that are incised with geometric linear designs. The works witness a visual distillation accented by the accumulation of layered color which refines and simplifies the structure while complicating the ground color and surface of these pieces. This program was recorded February 5, 2023. #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk
