James Kalm gratefully wraps up our cultural field work for 2020 with tours of a pair of exhibitions. Starting off on the Lower East Side viewers will accompany their correspondent on a stroll through of Ariel Orozco’s “Have a Seat and Let Me Tell You”. With the redolence of a Western truckstop parking lot, Orozco displays “paintings” that resemble the rear end of eighteen wheelers. The attached flashing taillights seem to be sending out messages in Morris Code to the receptive.
Zipping across town to Chelsea, we pop in for a closing time slide through of Nina Chanel Abney’s “The Great Escape”. This is only half of the latest Abney exhibition offering at the Shainman Gallery, but time constraints are what they are. “The Great Escape” presents new works which continue the artists development in spray paint technical practices, cubist compositional complexity, and a tangy social/political narrative. This program was recorded November 10, and December 22, 2020.
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