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Loren Munk @ Flecker Gallery

Loren Munk Reconnoitring: Cartography of an Art Enthusiast February 10 – March 10, 2015 Opening reception from 1:00-3:00 pm and artist lecture at 3:45 pm on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 From the press release: The artist Loren Munk is a painter, videographer, and writer. He is known within the New York artist’s community primarily for his extensive work documenting the art scene through his map and diagram paintings, video reports and reviews.  Munk has executed numerous national and international public and private commissions, including a mural for the Mayor’s Office of Paris. He is well represented in important collections throughout Europe, South and North America and the Middle East. Most recently, Munk has been producing a major series of paintings that tackle the subject of art itself through an historical and diagrammatic lens. The paintings shown here are drawn from this body of work and are three of the largest paintings, monumenta...

Supports Surfaces: Panel Discussion and Opening @ Canada

  The early crowd settles in.   Canada co-founder and painter, Wallace Whitney , makes opening remarks and introduces the panel. Last evening Canada hosted an informative panel discussion to augment their current exhibition Supports Surfaces. The learned panel was moderated by Rachel Stella and included Art Historians and writers/critics Bernard Ceysson, Paul Rodgers, and Raphael Rubinstein. But most importantly two of the exhibiting artists, Noël Dolla and Pierre Buraglio, were also present and were able to give voice, clarity and insight into the concerns and origins of their work. Excellent points were made as to the relationship and reactions for and against French Modernism and the work of the American Abstract Expressionists as well as the influence of American Pop Art and Minimalism. Rubinstein and Whitney also made pertinent points regarding the concerns of the Support Surfaces movement of Southern France in the 1960's and work being pro...

Loren Munk @ Freight + Volume

  (detail)     (detail)  (detail)   (detail)   (detail)   (detail) (detail) Loren Munk : You Are Here Through March 15, 2014 Freight + Volume 530 W 24th Street New York, NY 10011  

Possibly Painting/Painting Impossible @ Life on Mars

Looking forward to this! See you there . . . .  (click to enlarge) Sunday December 8, 3 PM - ? Life on Mars 56 Bogart Street Bushwick, Brooklyn

Interview on Ahtcast

Paul Behnke, 2013, Di Prima's Trophy, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 38 in. I'm very happy to have my work featured in a podcast interview on Ahtcast.com. AhtCast is a platform for artist interviews conducted by painter Phillip J Mellen . You can listen to my interview here . (audio podcast is at the bottom of post) Other artists interviewed include: Lorri Ott and Loren Monk