Loren Munk: Location, Location, Location/Mapping the New York Art World

Lesley Heller Workspace, 54 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002, Sept. 7-Oct. 16, 2011. Loren Munk's oil paintings are maps of time periods, artists' studios, galleries, alternative spaces during intensive periods of art historical importance in New York City over the past 60+ years. Munk also writes art criticism for The Brooklyn Rail and has his own "Rough Cuts" in which he rides around to art shows in galleries and museums and documents them through film. Also in attendance one of the artists in his map paintings, Ron Gorchov. To me, the paintings allude to the Southern folk artist, Howard Finster (1916-2001) although Munk has taken his painting into a more contemporary abstract direction with the colorful street maps underlying the blocks of information.

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