Big Picture at PRISKA C. JUSCHKA FINE ART

James Kalm was asked to take a peek at "Big Picture", and because he's a painting fan, he obliged. This show is curated by Tom Sanford, and Ryan Schneider, and presents a selection of diverse styles and approaches to contemporary figuration. From Colleen Asper's Neo Classic rendition of a witness on the stand, to Wes Lang's accumulations of tattoo logos, these artists all bring the narrative of their lives into the realm of painting. "Big Picture" is a cross section of what's happening now with figurative painting in New York. Includes an interview with Tom Sanford.

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Entertainment

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• James Kalm Kamrooz Aram
• Liz Markus Eddie Martinez
• Lisa Sanditz Tom Sanford

[MrWowforever]

@eenkjet give the painters the credit they deserve for coming to NYC. I know the two curators, they both love what they do. It's easy to complain from a distance. I dont like all this work, but it contributes more than you are. History is a tale told by the winners, so, posterity is relative. Most of these artists are in the city, trying. You are typing your dreams away :)

[eenkjet]

the first artist created. the next 300 all said "what, is that what's going on right now?" they had no inherent artistic voice adopted the movement and started making work. the artist/painter that starts the movement is the artist, the painter that partakes of the movement is a paint stylist. and we are up to our eyeballs in stylists at this point. very few actual artists. i sell $20-30,000 pieces commonly, and i don't call them "art". they are just experimental pieces. art is sacred.

[darkmiguel3]

Thats it. Its the bottom line "ART is anything anybody says it is"

and do i have to say good or bad is a matter of opinion.

To say movements are uncreative is ingnorant no artist said im going to make a movement they just made ART.

Period I think this will be true for the next 500 years.

[darkmiguel3]

The argument saying "this is not art" is not very formidable when someone already said it is art. I dont agree. ask any illustrator and they will say this is an illustration i made for this mag ect. If they say its art then its art. Movements happen when a large group of artist come toghether to break new grounds. Its the sole reason why there are so many different kinds of art nobody makes a movement someone just categorizes what artist are doing a "critic" and calls it a movement.

[eenkjet]

@darkminguel3 so you do agree. an image and it's message isn't what makes it ART, the idea if based on illustrative information (ie, someone, something, doing, this, meaning that, which represents ...etc) is not art. it is an illustrated narrative. it's art with small case "a". not ART. and what's this about knowing art movements. art history is a creative antagonist. the very fact that there was a "movement" wreaks of a historical lack of personal creativity. movement means hack.

[darkmiguel3]

@wizzlewolf LoL everyone is a critic but only some know 2 artist per dacade not to mention at least 10 art movements. If you dont know at least these things you shoulnt be criticing anything.

[darkmiguel3]

@eenkjet

Please give me the link of "the asian girl holding a bleeding lamb or anything bleeding as a matter of fact" and patent nobody patents art even if they do they will just be appropriated by another artist .In the 1950s Robert Rauschenberg. And illustrations are only used for graphic novels, books, magazines, covers and that sort of stuff. You can't say that is illustration if its hanging on the wall of a gallery. As for legacy Piero Manzoni canned his own shit its worth millions now

[foxtrapper1972]

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[jameslour]

Right On eenkjet...



[wizzlewolf]

Oh geesh. Everybody is a critic!! LOL LOL Loved this show. Thanks Mr. Kalm! :-)