James Kalm Report
About this original series
James Kalm is a working artist living in Brooklyn New York. He has been an active critic for over twelve years writing for the controversial Brooklyn Rail http://brooklynrail.org/. For more high resolution videos, writings by James Kalm and views of the paintings of Loren Munk visit http://www.lorenmunk.com/.To support the Kalm Report with a donation go to https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2665446
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Episodes of James Kalm Report
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Alfred Jensen/Sol Lewitt Systems and Transformat...
James Kalm battles the drizzle and traffic of drive time Manhattan to bring viewers a tour of this delectable yet conceptually challenging two person show. As a long time fan of Alfred Jensen, there was little doubt that with or without his video camera, James Kalm would have visited this show. However, once he'd smoozed his way into recording this opening, he was pleased with the appropriate and satisfying pairing of these two bodies of work. Using mathematical systems and other guiding facto...
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Release date
Jan 26, 2012
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Runtime
11:58
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Bill Jensen New Paintings at CHEIM & READ
James Kalm has the distinct pleasure of bringing to aficionados of painting this report on the recent works of Bill Jensen. With an international reputation that stretches back nearly four decades, Jensen is an exemplary practitioner of what is referred to as the contemporary New York School. As a painter with an alchemical knowledge of his materials, the artist is able to create works that virtually emanate a spiritual energy. With this show, and the increase of scale, including a new series ...
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Release date
Jan 18, 2012
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Runtime
13:57
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Dawn Clements New Work with sculptures by Marc L...
James Kalm has been privileged to have been friends with Dawn Clements for some time now. As an art student, Kalm had a abiding respect for the skills of great draftspersons, and always considered drawing one of the most precious and essential talents any artist could cultivate. It's been extraordinarily gratifying for him to have witnessed not only Dawn Clements but several other local artists develop in to an art historically recognized trend identified as "Meta-Drawing". Kudos must also be ...
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Release date
Jan 11, 2012
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Runtime
13:04
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Lori Ellison at McKENZIE FINE ART INC.
James Kalm has known the painter Lori Ellison for years, and has always respected her determination and stick-to-itiveness. Ellison is well regarded for her obsessively detailed pattern drawings, and paintings on panel. After sixteen years living and working within the New York, specifically Williamsburg Brooklyn art scene, the momentum of her career has increased. In fall of 2011 she and husband Lawrence Swan exhibited together at the Valentine Gallery in the burgeoning Bushwick/Ridgewood dis...
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Release date
Jan 6, 2012
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Runtime
11:50
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Erik den Breejen Smile at FREIGHT & VOLUME
James Kalm never surfed in California, never drove a "Little Deuce Coupe" and never dated a surfer girl, but these images, created by Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, provided a beautiful fantasy sound track for a big chunk of his adolescence. Eric den Breejen also came under the sway of this West Coast band, and has spent the last year or two making painting in homage to "Smile" Brian Wilson's legendary unreleased album. Using blocks of text and color shifts, the paintings exist somewhere bet...
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Release date
Dec 20, 2011
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Runtime
11:19
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Peter Gallo Paint Symptoms at HORTON GALLERY
James Kalm first bumped up against the paintings of Peter Gallo at a Miami Art Fair several years ago. Something about the abject urgency of their cobbled together panels, the limited palette and the weird scribbled text stuck in his head. Talking to other painting fiends in Brooklyn, the name of Peter Gallo would be mentioned almost like a fluency test. If you knew the work, you passed. If not...? "Paint Symptoms" is a selection of recent works that follow the arch of the artist's development...
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Release date
Dec 11, 2011
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Runtime
11:34
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Bob Thompson Drawings at STEVEN HARVEY FINE ART ...
James Kalm has been a fan of Bob Thompson's work since the late 1970s. In his meteoric though brief career, Thompson not only mingled with the era's most innovative visual artists like Alan Kaprow, Red Grooms and Gandy Brody, but became a friend and supporter of Free Jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman. This exhibition is the first time his drawings have been featured and also presents the "Last Painting" an unfinished picture which allows the viewers to see Thompson's drawing with color and h...
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Release date
Dec 4, 2011
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Runtime
14:33
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David Brody "Journey to the Center of the Earth"...
James Kalm zips into the heart of Williamsburg to catch a viewing of the latest paintings by David Brody. Broody, a longtime resident of the 'burg, has spent the last five years returning to oil paint on canvas. This group of fantasy landscapes/organisms explores the use of materials, isometric projections, and a limited palette of mostly earth tones that harmonize with the beige color of the unprimed linen. Although the artist has labored on these works for years, this is the first time the p...
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Release date
Nov 19, 2011
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Runtime
12:52
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Jonathan Meese "War 'Saint Just (First Flash)'" ...
James Kalm has been observing the painting of Jonathan Meese for several years now, and was always curious as to his prestigious position in the current European art scene. Informed by German friends that the paintings were a mere part of this artist's prolific practice, Kalm was eager to experience some of the other aspects of his production. "War 'Saint Just (First Flash)'" at Gallery Bortolami is a major performance piece, with stage set, and props. Having witnessed over an hour and a half ...
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Release date
Nov 8, 2011
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Runtime
14:26
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Milton Resnick "The Elephant in the Room" at CHE...
James Kalm was a young painter just arrived in New York when he discovered the work of Milton Resnick. Of course he'd seen articles in magazines like ARTFORUM on the artist, but nothing prepared him for the "real thing". "The Elephant in the Room" not only refers to the pachyderm like facture of these works, but to the aesthetic questions that this type of nonfigurative, nonspatial, nonillusional painting presents. Listed among the "New York School" painters by Irving Sandler with an asterisk ...
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Release date
Oct 24, 2011
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Runtime
11:08
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