Tony Fitzpatrick “Drawings for Crazy Horse” at PIEROGI



James Kalm slips into Williamsburg under cover of night to bring viewers a look and an extended interview with one of Chicago’s preeminent contemporary artists, Tony Fitzpatrick. Obsessively worked and fabricated from the cast off refuge of down home culture, Fitzpatrick weaves a narrative of tragic heroics recording a poetic portrait of one of the last of the great Native American leaders Crazy Horse. With simple scraps and elementary colors these collage paintings transcend their small size to express a sense of monumental mourning. Includes an extended interview with Tony Fitzpatrick.

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Vision Quest & Pop Surrealism Award



James Kalm keeps his eyes on the margins, and in this episode investigates a new gallery that has materialized in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canaldistrict. “Vision Quest” is a selection of works portraying the shamanistic journey, and explores the potential of the artist as contemporary shaman.

BREAKING NEWS: Internationally known curator Elmar Zorn and Munich galleriest Lothar Keuler announce the First European Pop Surrealism Award which will be presented at the 2010 Art Karlsruhe Internationale Messe für Klassische Moderne und Gegenwartskunst. Pop Surrealism is shaping up to be the first major art movement of the new millennium and its mix of the psychedelic, fantastic and comic is sweeping the world This award is in recognition of this under appreciated manifestation of contemporary youth culture.

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