With his first show at New York's Cheim & Read Tal R shows a body of work in which many local viewers are seeing connections to paintings by the Fauves or other early Expressionists like Klee, Krichner or Macke. These images appear like pictures taken from a dream museum of early Modernism. Switching mediums from thick luscious oil paint, to the dry luminous fields of rabbit skin glue distemper, has also created a stir within the painting community. A musical introduction is provided by Juan Antonio Garcia on sax, and James Labrosse on guitar.