Phil Frost at RUTTKOWSKI;68 Jim Dine at 125 NEWBURY

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Phil Frost at RUTTKOWSKI;68 Jim Dine at 125 NEWBURY

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James Kalm is investigating the nooks and crannies of the latest hot gallery district below Canal Street, Tribeca. In his pursuit of culture, your correspondent is attracted to a nondescript alley, discovers a new space, and decides to visit. Phil Frost’s “Interstitial Stints” is the artists first show with Ruttkowski;68. This selection of assemblage paintings on doors displays Frost’s accumulation of symbols, tattoo-like elements, odds and ends picked up on the streets or from the studio all collaged together, with the central picture plane drowned in a thick layer of clear resin.
Drifting west, viewers are invited to tour “Jim Dine, the ‘60s” at 125 Newbury. Dine is arguably one of the most recognized talents in the tendency that became known as “Pop Art”. Coming out of the rough and tumble world of late Abstract Expressionism, Dine and a group of restless provocateurs started challenging every aspect of the over determined existential angst that had governed the Downtown scene since the end of WWII. Many of the pieces in this show have been seen in art history books by generations of artists, making this show like a visit to the Pop Art archive. A musical introduction is provided by Twisted Wrist. This program was recorded March 21, 2024 #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk

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@ranajitadhikary4214 28 күн бұрын

Thank you James

@jlarrify 5 ай бұрын

Jim Dine’s work is so cool. I remember discovering his work at the library while playing hooky from school and just pouring over the books intensely

@thirdrockjul2224 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Kate! ❤

@stepladder13 5 ай бұрын

the first time I encountered Jim Dine's work was in his series of paintings of hearts which didn't really do anything for me and didn't inspire me to look any further into his output so these works come as a bit of a revelation to me. I always like to see what artists can come up with to stick on their canvases and these really made me chortle. Love the ties. And an actual shower! 😄 But you can tell that he is a very accomplished painter as well. I liked every single piece.

@marcusjolley1070 5 ай бұрын

Thank you and thank you kate

@MorrisRicker-is6vg 5 ай бұрын

Tremendous effort put into multi layered compositions like this. I think he maintained a primitive vibe while serving up a very colorful experience. Thank you Phil Frost. Mr. M.

@larchlarch9851 5 ай бұрын

Very cool artists that I had not known of. Thanks for sharing.

@tonsfocus 5 ай бұрын

Having never seen Mr. Frost's work before, I was initially excited. The promise of it perhaps became a bit thinner after seeing the similarity between the works. I appreciate the "pragmatic optimism" they convey - definitely cheerful pieces, and warming in the manner of old 1950/60s colloquial patterns. As for Jim Dine - I think he was also pragmatic - skimming the surface of all the art movements around him, and never really plunging in deep to find something truly unique. I liked a show he did many years ago with these styrofoam forms evocative of the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Otherwise, despite my best attempts, I've always found his bathrobe avatars to be a kind of successful insistence on banality. Thanks for the video tour James, and Kate!

@jameskalmroughcut 5 ай бұрын

You're echoing many of my own responses. I think part of my project is to keep an eye on artist's developments over the years, and I find myself changing opinions, and reevaluating things (good or bad) over time. I've been looking at photos of some of the Dine pieces, in art history books since the early 1970s, so this was a poignant stroll down memory lane, and I mentioned the "Inventing Downtown" show which casts Dine as a much more protean and engaged character than he might initially appear ...JK greyartgallery.nyu.edu/exhibition/inventing-downtown-artist-run-galleries-in-new-york-city-1952-1965/

@tonsfocus 5 ай бұрын

@@jameskalmroughcut Thank you for the comment... I do have to constantly remind myself when looking at any art from the past that it might have captured something in the air that everyone could sense at that specific time. Or that it was revolutionary then, but because of derivative art from that innovator, it looks cliché to us now. Your lifetime of art experience is a treasure trove, and I cannot get enough of you taking us along on those strolls down memory lane. Thanks for the link as well - wonderful show! You've just expanded my historic timeline of Alex Katz (I didn't realize how long he's been at it). And to think - perhaps a tiny overlap with Warhol with the repeated minimal image of the woman in a dress. Cheers, good sir!

@jazw4649 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic! Love the Phil Frost experience. Thank you JK & Kate

@reaganwiles_art 5 ай бұрын

Thanks as ever, from an exile from the Kingdom (that being wherever art is lived and loved). I just read this in Lawrence Weschler's blog Wonder cabinet: "A thoroughly bracing survey of the late Si Lewen’s work, including his stunning anti-war epic suite of stark monochromatic drawings, The Parade (from 1956-7) in its first complete showing ever in New York City, will be opening this Saturday March 23rd (at 3 pm) at the James Cohan Gallery in Tribeca (52 Walker Street) through April 27th." Looks fantastic, the photos intrigue and excite. Black and white drawings of subjects almost abstract, recurrent, indeed replicated forms, serried in phalanxes of angled lines, thrusting and marching or reaching struggling yearning....n

@jameskalmroughcut 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the heads-up @reaganwiles_art, I'll try to check it out...JK