From: jameskalmroughcut | Oct 6, 2011 | 196 views
As part of his civic duties to the artistic community, James Kalm occasionally gets drafted to perform some exhausting missions. At this years DUMBO Arts Festival he had the privilege of visiting over forty studios, galleries, performances and special projects, and selecting those which merited attention and awards. During this hectic marathon of aesthetics, your reporter was able to document a portion of the works, and he is hereby providing viewers with glances of the artists, their studios and the festivities. This video is the first of two reports on the DUMBO Arts Festival 2011.
Lars and Lori at VALENTINE
From: jameskalmroughcut | Sep 28, 2011 | 385 views
Artist couple, Lori Ellison and Lars (Lawrence) Swan are presented together in this intimate exhibition. Since arriving in New York, Ellison has pursued a style of miniature, obsessively detailed abstraction, mostly painted on wood panels. Her work has been exhibited nationally and reviewed in the New York Times by Roberta Smith. Lars Swan has created an online comic titled "Art Bum" and maintains New Clean Blog. Humble means and deadpan wit are useful tools for Swan's investigations of color and sculptural interventions of the picture plane. Employing that most derided of art products, commercially produced canvas boards, Swan cuts, strips and bends sections of these boards into geometric, origami-like objects that recall Russian Constructivist wall sculpture.
