Color Matters Sarada Rauch and Sebastian Black

James Kalm is pedaling through the precincts of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Williamsburg and Bushwick in Brooklyn when he decides to whip up his trusty camera and record views of some of the exhibitions on display.
“Color Matters” at Galerie Richard, on Orchard Street, is a collection of pieces by abstract painters working in various modalities, but with color as a main element of their production. Featured in this presentation are: Koen Delaere, Dennis Hollingsworth, Kim Young-Hun, Jamie Martinez, Noriko Mizokawa, Carl Fudge and Joseph Nechvatal, and was curated by Saul Ostrow
Rolling across the Williamsburg Bridge, we make a brief detour in Greenpoint, and peruse one of the areas last “Micro Galleries” Auxiliary Projects. Sarada Rauch has a poetic bent and is showing miniature landscape sculptures that parody roadside billboards. Also included are a series of videos with text and music.
From there, we continue this Sunday’s sojourn to CLEARING and accomplish an examination of Sebastian Black’s “Self-Portrait as a Good Boy”. With about thirty-five paintings all 18 x 24 inches we can compare and analyze these works in relation to each other and see how Black has approached and extrapolated his simple compositional and coloristic means to create this series of works. Also presented are hand bound portfolios with fantastic watercolor views of massive bank buildings commissioned by the artists, and accompanied with banking slips. This program was recorded October 28, 2018.

[@jhmnyc]

Thanks so much for coming by and commenting on my work. I hope everything is well with you during this crisis. I just saw this for the first time :)

[@nonane2390]

you are amazing. I love your simple descriptions which is worth any intellectual spine, in my book. Love you for it.

[@TheBillybobbbbb]

Great video. Enjoyed the tours!

[@zzendawgie]

Thank you! In NYC this weekend, will check this out. 👍👍👍

[@dennisdalesandro6105]

that last Dennis Hollingsworth painting is just too good.... love it

[@davidfoley4707]

Hey JAMES very cool,color matters good show

[@chriserskineartist]

Thanks James and kate

[@mariapascualy2598]

Enjoyed this- thanks.

[@thirdrockjul2224]

Thank you Kate

[@chriserskineartist]

Black’s work is really interesting. 35 pieces is almost too much to really appreciate the individual merits of each work. I loved the white dot one.

[@gavinyates9189]

Thank you Kate, thank you everybody, I learned so much.

[@oleskovgaard7529]

Machine for exellent paintings

[@tharkanzox1493]

excellent

[@ArthouseChannel]

Thanks :-))

[@davidmayhew4818]

The Origin of the World pieces are great but why do some of the canvases look poorly stretched?

[@jameskalmroughcut]

I'm not sure but...they may have been painted somewhere rolled up and shipped to New York, then restretched. Also, when your working with a very smooth and immaculate surface, every little blip or bump gets amplified.

[@rlund651]

Machine for I don't know what to call this painting. 😂 he is a good painter but by the end of the video I just wanted to stab myself in the eye with all those endless machine titles.

[@jameskalmroughcut]

Yeah, I'm afraid that sometimes these young painters get a bit carried away with the notion of being overly literate(?)

[@meltdowngrfx969]

Haha I thought that was called Spotify 👍 liked Sebastian's paintings - hated the titles.

[@hmax1591]

dude, that moving of the camera as you do a manual zoom, makes me dizzy.

[@sonnycorbi1970]

This falls under, “I CAN’T SEE THE FORREST BECAUSE OF THE TREES’. - we want to see the work in it’s entirety - not the nuts and bolts - you can tell us all about the infrastructure while we look at the whole picture and just before you go to the next piece give us a quick up close look, the majority of us are not engineers -