Callicoon Fine Arts

Living with and circulating #MuseumBhavan, 9 museums in one. Thank you, @dayanitasingh, for sharing your brilliance with us this week!

@nicholas_buffy’s building facades as talisman, as memory.... Thanks for the kind words and insight, @andrewrusseth. #Repost with @get_repost Nicholas Buffon, ‘Katz’s Delicatessen,’ 2017 Buffon just keeps getting better! Painting as model, as talisman, as memory, rendered with Proustian clarity. Here, a wholehearted rendering of Katz’s, that sacred Lower East Side institution, tucked in the office of Callicoon with a few other winners. Bring your appetite!

TONIGHT: @aaykayburns, @tionam, @em_rooney, and #kenokiishi in conversation, moderated by @davidcbreslin at @whitneymuseum. ***** From the release: In his memoir Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz writes: Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom. Inspired by Wojnarowicz's approach to histories both personal and public, this roundtable discussion brings together artists of a younger generation to look back on Wojnarowicz’s moment and milieu and to reflect on the aesthetics and politics of that period in relationship to the present.

Our deepest thanks and gratitude to @wesleyan_u, @bchaffee1, @rosemmarlox, and #AnthonyHatch for supporting @kahlilrobertirving and his practice. His solo exhibition, Street Matter - Decay & Forever / Golden Age, opened today and will be on-view through December 9th at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, in Middletown, CT. Congratulations, Kahlil!!!

We’re so glad to see #ColterJacobsen’s exhibition, Essays, reviewed by @swervekotecha in @frieze_magazine as part of Critics’ Guide: Highlights of the New Season Shows in New York. Check it out online (and below)! If I remember correctly, in learning how to write, I learned to draw from memory. Look at the letter A memorize it’s shape; look down now draw it. Look back up memorize. Good, now look back down repeat. In ‘Essays’, Bay Area artist Colter Jacobsen ...mines this requisite minimal gap that always exists between a source and its trail: between brief studies on reflection and the immediate reflexivity those studies come to teach us. Several works drawings, photographs, watercolours, and found objects repeat and reflect each other throughout Callicoon’s space, signalling the various ways that memory ties art-making to epistemology: produce the original and try (essai) to produce it again. Ghost Wood (female flying figure-Tieppolo) (2017) depicts a connect-the-dots scene in which Caspar the Ghost rides a broom. The dots that connect one of his facial features to the next are doubled, as if his figure is shifting in space as the artist attempts to draw it, and yet the numbers follow a single linear trajectory: they go from 1 to 30; with the broom fully drawn in Jacobsen’s try at figuring the ghost completes itself as a double negative. Elsewhere, the artist’s attention turns back to language: in a series of watercolours, each titled NOW, tri-colour wheels are painted with wavy lines moving from the edge of the circle toward its centre. Here, drawing is conflated with writing; paying closer attention, the letters ‘N O W’ can be seen and read across each diametrical line. See more