Rich Aldrich Untitled 2006/2007
I stumbled upon this space by accident. There was no signage expect for a golden stenciled grasshoper. I believe it was in the basement of the Paula Cooper space, but I could be totally wrong about that. In any case the space itself was awesome. A long concrete room with various pipes projecting into it, an uneven floor and an authentic patina of time starkly separated this space from the standard white cube space dominating the art world. Though as often is the case in space so interesting. It often superceded the work. The show was ostensible a survey of the present state of abstract painting (and went along with a book called Painting Abstraction, to be published by Phaidon Press). Though it looked more like a survey of young hip painters. (All human created imagery is abstraction from nature, some of the paintings in this show had characters upon a painty ground. Not something I would classify as predominantly an 'abstract' painting. )
I had hoped to show an image or two but the show has no web-presence. So I am putting images pulled from Google.
(I liked this one mostly because it reminded me of my own work.)
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