James Kalm considers himself a tiny part of the Brooklyn art scene. Since his arrival, in the early 1980s many of the most prolific and recognized artists in New York have hailed from, or had studios in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Heights, Dumbo, Red Hook, Park Slope, Williamsburg, Green Point and Bushwick, are just a few of the neighborhoods where creative types have settled and formed communities. This double bill features a pair of Brooklyn artists that span not only a generation but diverse spectrums of painting aesthetics.
Bill Jensen’s ‘Wandering Boundless & Free” at Vito Schnabel’s presents works produced in the last fourteen years, and witness Jensen’s alchemical whimsy. Tracing his linage to Albert Pinkham Ryder and the Abstract Expressionists, who saw the mystical properties of pigment as a potential field of investigation, Jensen has arrived at a unique position of a “material/spiritual” understanding of paint.
Maria Calandra also paints using a spontaneous approach. Having produced an archive of drawings for her blog Pencil in the Studio, these recent works see the artist returning to a very sensual and painterly practice. “Chasing the Sun” is a series of works inspired by travels and hikes with artist husband Erik den Breejen. Making quick sketches the artist returns to here Greenpoint studio and amplifies the stimulus of the original impression to arrive at swirling expressionistic invocations of nature.
This program was recorded Mach 30, and April 4, 2024 #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk