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“Painting is dead” is one of the oldest, most shop-worn clichés in art. The recent rise of artists exploring new paradigms in representational – particularly figurative – painting is only the latest refutation of the old chestnut. Painter and critic Richard Kalina takes his own swipe at it in a thoughtfully curated and beautiful (yes, beautiful) group show of abstract painting at DC Moore Gallery, The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction (through August 9, 2019). The exhibition features a fantastic and fantastically diverse group of artists, including Paolo Arao, Samantha Bittman, Amie Cunat, Angela Heisch, Federico Herrero, Shirley Jaffe, Valerie Jaudon, Shirley Kaneda, Harriet Korman, Jonathan Lasker, Carrie Moyer, Thomas Nozkowski, Odili Donald Odita, Brian O’Doherty, Joanna Pousette-Dart, Katia Santibañez, David Storey, Barbara Takenaga, Kevin Umaña, Stanley Whitney, and Jack Youngerman. We can confirm the painting is great, and the AC is strong in this exhibition.
To mark the occasion of the exhibition, DC Moore Gallery hosted a panel discussion Abstract Painting: Wrong Questions, Right Answers? with the stellar line-up of Paolo Arao, Amie Cunat, Carrie Moyer, and Odili Donald Odita, moderated by Kalina. DC Moore shared the video with us.
Produced by our friends at Bower Blue.
