Review of "What Gives" Exhibition at Rick Wester Fine Art in Two Coats of Paint, May,10, 2023. Contributed by Adam Simon / At first glance, Tom McGlynn’s paintings, on display at his solo show “What Gives” at Rick Wester Fine Art, seem to be examples of minimalist abstraction, free of narrative, subject, or anything associative. His arrangements of rectangles of solid color on a monochromatic field evoke modernism’s utopian origins: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, De Stijl, Neo-plasticism, painting purged of anything that could be thought extraneous. For contemporary abstract painters, however, these basic shapes are historically weighted signifiers, no longer free of association. One cannot now make a geometric abstract painting without it also being a depiction of a geometric abstract painting. McGlynn is fully aware of this doubling. For him, it isn’t a quandary as much as a defining characteristic of his work. What is remarkable is that, out of such seemingly depleted soil, he can conjure such visual richness.
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Mohammad Salemy for dadabasenyc. Accompanying text by Salemy.
Mohammad Salemy for dadabasenyc. Accompanying text by Salemy.
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Interview with Stephen Shore in March 2018 issue: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/03/art/STEPHEN-SHORE-with-Tom-McGlynn
Editor at large, and regular contributing writer since 2012.
Interview with Stephen Shore in March 2018 issue: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/03/art/STEPHEN-SHORE-with-Tom-McGlynn
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"Right Place for the Wrong People" at Bullet Space
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