Kalm Videos

James Kalm proffers kudos to the curator who came up with the idea of juxtaposing the works of these two master painters.

James Kalm is slumming on the Lower East Side when he comes across this opening.

James Kalm makes a pre-Halloween visit to bring viewers some tricks and treats from the painterly grab bag of Nicole Eisenman.

James Kalm returns for the 2009 season opener on the LES (Lower East Side).

James Kalm visits the Lafayette House, a loft on the Bowery and a newly painted mural on Houston and the Bowery as well as the memorial exhibition at Deitch Projects in and attempt to document some of the important final locations in the short life of Dash Snow. Since the 2007 cover story in New York Magazine that launched him to the pinnacle of bohemian chic, Dash snow was seen as an avatar of hip. Long standing drug and alcohol problems and a tumultuous family life (Snow was the scion of the incredibly wealthy de Menil family) no doubt added to the stress that contributed to this tragic loss.

James Kalm is pleased to introduce viewers to the work of Maureen Cavanaugh.It became apparent after discovering the work at her New York debut in 2005 that Cavanaugh is forging a unique vision that relates to Post-Feminist Art while maintaining its essential unself-conscious simplicity and directness. Depicting quotidian subjects like friends, dogs and domestic still lives, there is also an attraction to the glamorous and fashionably seductive that brings an edge of the erotic to many pictures. Featuring an interview with Maureen Cavanaugh, and her mother, Kate Cavanaugh.

James Kalm stumbles into a unique display of photographic invention with this exhibition of Kim Keever s recent work. Using an original technique of building and photographing underwater dioramas, Keever is able to create fantasy scenes that capture all the mood and mystery of the Romantic landscape painters most specifically the Hudson River School . Combining the photos with his original music and video, Keever engulfs the viewer in a personal world of faux-natural beauty exploiting the audience s desire for a return to a perfect, allbeit synthetic, world. Featuring an interview and a studio visit with artist Kim Keever.

James Kalm visits the debut of the film JG Reads by Rirkrit Tiravanija. As a leading member of what has become known as Relational Aesthetics Tiravanija seeks an interaction with his audience, encouraging a precipitorial engagement that questions the standard artist/viewer classification. As the former husband of Elizabeth Peyton, Tiravanija shares her infatuation with the notion of celebrity and hyper-fandom. Jerry Salts has recently called the Relational Aesthetic artists the most influential stylistic strain to emerge in art since the early 1970s .

James Kalm brings viewers along for the much anticipated reappearance of Sandro Chia. As one of the driving forces who revitalized painting with his particular version of Neo-Expressionism, Chia has received worldwide acclaim. Promoted along with Enzo Cucchi, and Francesco Clemente as the Three Cs and the Italian Trans-Avantgarde, their return to a figurative based imagery hastened the demise of the moribund formalism and Minimalism that had strangled much of the painterly creativity in New York and spawned a reevaluation of it potentials. This exhibition features signature works that continue that legacy.

James Kalm guides viewers through a Bowery studio visit with artist Fred Gutzeit, through the development of his Lee Wall mural, to the installation and the work s debut at Pocket Utopia in Brooklyn s cutting edge neighborhood MoJo. The enigmatic persona of Lee Lozano (1930-1999) is the inspiration and muse, which inspired Gutzeit s project. Lozano was a ubiquitous force in the burgeoning early era of Soho. In a brief career spanning barely a decade Lozano moved through all the major art movements of the period, collecting eminent friendships among a broad cross section of the New York art world. Her pioneering actions are seen as provocative achievements in conceptual art, and led to her eventual expatriation from the New York scene.

James Kalm makes a pilgrimage to west Chelsea and takes in a viewing of recent paintings by New York icon Ron Gorchov. In a career that spans nearly fifty years, Gorchov has perused his vision of pure painting. With his unique touch and innovative intuition the artist has developed an unmistakable form that combines the pictorial with the sculptural. His saddle shaped canvases transcend the novelty of the gimmick and miraculously acquire a universal correctness that is timeless in its elegance.

James Kalm takes a break from the studio and brings viewers a casual Thursday night stroll through three Chelsea galleries. Sylvan Lionni at Freight+Volume presents a series of conceptual abstractions based on solar panel designs. Peggy Bates explores a material technique of painting that employs nature s forces in the analogues creation of natural forms at Gallery Thomas Jaeckel. Susan Dory rounds out this trio of abstraction with a series of striped pieces that seduce through the use of translucent planes of thick acrylic and tropical color schemes, at Winston W chter

James Kalm foregoes the bicycle to make a special road-trip to Newark New Jersey to visit the debut exhibition of German Pitre. Using the abject materials of faux fur, stuffed animals and black tar-like paint, Pitre presents work that challenges good taste while extending the classic painterly legacy. Working on a large scale and attaching objects to the canvas surface, the artist comingles the cuddly with the crappy and produces work that resonates with a pathetic awareness of unavoidable decay and enveloping entropy. Featuring an interview with German Pitre.

James Kalm bikes to Long Island City s PS1 Contemporary Art Center for a tour of an exhibition featuring Minus Space. Begun about five years ago by the husband and wife artist team of Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martinez, Minus Space has achieved international recognition as a focus of reductivist abstraction. This show gives an overview to the various stratigies being employed by artists which derive from the formalistic and conceptual approaches encouraged by the project. Including interviews with Manfred Mohr, Simon Ingram and founding partner Matthew Deleget.

James Kalm slinks back to the Bowery to report on the first retrospective exhibition of Mary Heilmann. Presenting over forty years of work, this show gives viewers a chance to examine the themes, mediums and developments that Heilmann has consistently worked with. From her earliest pieces Heilmann s taken an insightful understanding of modern formalist conventions and tweaked them with a whimsical nonchalance that is nonetheless elegant and innovative. Richard Flood, Chief Curator organized this exhibitions presentation at the New Museum. Featuring comments by Julian Dashper

James Kalm adopts his art historian hat to bring viewers this documentation. On the evening of October 23, 2008 a panel discussion ART IS COMMUNICATION IT IS THE ABILITY TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE was held at the Art Directors Club on West 29th Street in Manhattan. The panel was moderated by journalist Gabriel Sherman and included: Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator of the Department of Media at the Museum of Modern Art, and Chief Curatorial Advisor at PS1; Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director of Creative Time; Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator at the New Museum; and Mario Naves, artist, critic and writer for The New York Observer. This video is excerpts from that discussion. Because cameras and recordings were forbidden, the framing and sound quality are less than optimal.

James Kalm returns with viewers to continue this tour of Wolfgang Petrick s studio. In part II the artist speaks about his up coming shows at the Sarah Asperger Gallery in Berlin and at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on Manhattan s burgeoning Lower East Side. Included are a discussion of the effects of the 9/11 disaster on Petrick s art

James Kalm drop in unexpectedly for an impromptu studio visit with one of Williamsburg s most significant artists, Wolfgang Petrick. Over thirty five years ago the work of Wolfgang Petrick made its initial impression on Kalm, and it still wields the same impact. As a founding member of Critical Realism Petrick has been in the forefront of German and international art. This two part feature includes views of his latest projects and an interview with the artist