Scott Richter New Work at ELIZABETH HARRIS GALLERY

James Kalm is still reeling from the crash and burn of his old computer. This video marks the beginning of new level of half-assed production in HD.

Scott Richter is an artist who has been pushing the limits and ideas of paint and painting for decades. After investigating the process of painting and the mingling of it with elements of sculpture, this show displays a returning to the classic rectangle hung on a wall. Richter's canvases are luscious, physical and nuanced, with an undeniable presence that is satisfyingly memorable. Includes an interview with Scott Richter.

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[MrWowforever]

Mr Richter strikes me as a professional. His work raises lots of issues to discuss. Pro or con. It is revealing that your generally dismissive and your last comment you posit yourself as the only 'real artist'. Kinda arrogant. NYC is tough:)

[MrWowforever]

@eenkjet thanks for the chat:) Process Art is a well documented branch of Modernism that has 50 yrs (and continuing) of history. If your saying all these artists are 'pretend weekend artists' then.............. thanks

[eenkjet]

i am definitely challenging the outer limits in my studio. if you want want to challenge the outer limits of philosophy than be a philosopher or a poet. or you can drizzle your with art philosophy. just make sure that there is some actual ART for which to do your drizzling. this is tiresome. i gotta go work on my etched/polished aluminum over embossed mahogany pieces for a sanctuary....playing with paint is for kids and pretend weekend "artists".

[MrWowforever]

your first sentence contradicts your 8th. 'playing at the outer limits...' and 'get in the studio...challenge outer limits....'. All thoughts are conceptual. Philosophy is the nature of being. Art, as life, is philisophical by nature...it asks questions. Religion and tv provide 'answers'.

[eenkjet]

playing at the outer limits of what something is only leaves one to purposefully avoid the core and guts of what art can be. an artist can be as philosophical as he or she wants. but really. what do you objectively have? a piece of crap staring back at you in the end. let's stop ask "what" is art. damn. get in the studio and make something that challenges outer limits of human endeavor. instead of the outer limits of query.

it takes real talent and practice and tenure to do that.

[MrWowforever]

the first question they ask art students is: What is Art? Then you spend the rest of your time trying to answer that question by making things that you hope are Art. The question is never answered. Its a philisophical carrot. Advertising is a lie as truth. Art is truth as a lie. Advertising is a laughing stock, Art is a place were 'artist guys' and girls can do what they need without the fuss of public and corporate intrusion. Art is never as literal or pandering as you seem to want it to be.

[eenkjet]

i couldn't possibly write a decent novel or design a building or design some amazing haute courture suit. so should i instead,... type gibberish! throw steel and glass in a pile! sew some unwearable idiotic garment! all as a commentary on the material and or element itself. only in the artworld is the bar so low. don't worry about the mall customer, or the gallery owner, or art history. the artworld has become the laughing stock of the serious professional creative.

[eenkjet]

what the hell! i came back to this thread to see what was up. let's say... if a person's works AT THIS POINT IN HISTORYYYY, is asking simplistic questions like..."what is art" or "what is paint" or "what is a wall?!",... it's not art. the mere notion of obsessing about the boundary or element is so exhausting. it ignores the responsibility to actual do something with actual substance. become real artists guys. REAL ART-ists. not theorists!

[MrWowforever]

ok.......but how can a painting be 'overly involved' with the medium(paint)? One must 'involve' paint in making a painting. I think Carravagio is no more or less involved with paint than, say, Stella

[quenchedinlife]

@MrWowforever, yeah I hate nationalism too, but I like a lot of the painters from England, mostly from 20th and 21st century. I'm just dubious about paintings which are overly involved with the medium, and I'm not speaking for you, just myself.