James Kalm, like so many other young artists, arrived in New York to pursue a career as a painter, whatever that meant. It was the late seventies, and the city was in desperate straights, with entire swaths of its neighborhoods crumbling into ruins. Established art hegemonies of Minimalism and Conceptualism were also collapsing. The scene was ripe for new and unprecedented experimental approaches to artistic production, with even the loathed practice of painting given reconsideration. " Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s" takes a look at some artists who pushed the boundaries of abstraction, and reasserted its validity as a realm of intellectual investigation. Raphael Rubenstein has collected together prime examples of the well, and lesser known painters of this period, giving viewers a chance to confront the actual paintings that have channeled the aesthetics we are immersed in today. This exhibition includes the works of: Louise Fishman, Bill Jensen, Jonathan Lasker, Pat Steir, Jack Whitten, Elizabeth Murray, Carroll Dunham, Stanley Whitney, Terry Winters, Joan Snyder, David Reed , Mary Heilmann , Thomas Nozkowski , Gary Stephan and Stephen Mueller