4 or 5 James Stanfield

It has been a little while since I posted. I apologize. You know…it’s the usual. Life was just too busy for a month there. But, now I’m back, and Mary Jeys will not have to triple post.

I have got four recommends from the gallery world right now. First there is a neat show at Anton Kern of Matthew Monahan pieces. These works are kind of traditional, but I respond to them because of their clunkiness. They're fun.

Another recommend would be the current group show at Barbara Gladstone called Bridge Freezes Before Road. It’s a nice rock ’n roll survey of what is cool and macho. There are several of the new hot artists in this show, but I would like to focus on the older dudes that are there to give the younger dudes their cred. That video by Chris Burden cracks me up, but let me call out that Jack Goldstein painting – Peeeeeew! What a piece of shit. I know that I’ve written glowingly about that work in the past, but this one sux. From the looks of this painting 1982 must have been a nose-burning coke year.

Andrew Kreps has got a great exhibition up right now – We Could Have Invited Everyone. This is a heavily curated, reading intensive show, but I'm a believer. These curator’s are artists for sure. Go see it, but make sure you stop by Paula Cooper and urinate first, because you're gonna have to stay for a good 30 minutes to get as much as this show has to give.

Nichole Klagsbrun has a group exhibition called Walls 'n Things. And really, I don't care for much of the work. As far as I’m concerned this one is all Gedi Sibony. As with all the group exhibitions he’s been in lately, he steals the show with far less work placed in a much smarter way.

And finally, I’ve just been alerted to the fact that Seth Price has curated something over at Friedrich Petzel. I’ll be stopping by there on Tuesday and will send you my full report through JBlog.