jameskalmroughcut | Robert Swain at MINUS SPACE Ellsworth Ausby at ERIC FIRESTONE GALLERY @jameskalmroughcut | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
James Kalm, makes room on his handle bars, and invites paint head viewers to jump on for a Friday afternoon acculturation tour. We start our tour under the bridges (the Brooklyn and the Manhattan) in DUMBO at Minus Space with a painting installation titled “Immersive Color” the latest body of work from Robert Swain. Swain is one of America’s most distinguished pure color painter. These large color studies operate like Bach fugues, or Avant Jazz riffs, taking a basic color score, and extrapolating the units, till the spaces and spectrums are fulfilled.
Then we zip across the Brooklyn Bridge into the West Side of the Lower East Side for a gander at “Ellsworth Ausby: Somewhere in Space” at the Eric Firestone Gallery. Though Ausby, gained substantial recognition while young, much of this work here is underknown. Painted during the tumultuous period of the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies, Ausby pioneered his own course developing concepts of Afro-Futurism, and the use of the unstretched shaped canvas. Bearing witness to his contemporaries Ausby produced dynamic and formally unique works that are resonant of their time, yet personal in their content. A musical introduction is provided by Dominique Hammons. This program was recorded October 29, 2021. #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk
James Kalm, makes room on his handle bars, and invites paint head viewers to jump on for a Friday afternoon acculturation tour. We start our tour under the bridges (the Brooklyn and the Manhattan) in DUMBO at Minus Space with a painting installation titled “Immersive Color” the latest body of work from Robert Swain. Swain is one of America’s most distinguished pure color painter. These large color studies operate like Bach fugues, or Avant Jazz riffs, taking a basic color score, and extrapolating the units, till the spaces and spectrums are fulfilled.
Then we zip across the Brooklyn Bridge into the West Side of the Lower East Side for a gander at “Ellsworth Ausby: Somewhere in Space” at the Eric Firestone Gallery. Though Ausby, gained substantial recognition while young, much of this work here is underknown. Painted during the tumultuous period of the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies, Ausby pioneered his own course developing concepts of Afro-Futurism, and the use of the unstretched shaped canvas. Bearing witness to his contemporaries Ausby produced dynamic and formally unique works that are resonant of their time, yet personal in their content. A musical introduction is provided by Dominique Hammons. This program was recorded October 29, 2021. #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk
