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James Kalm makes a St. Patrick’s Day excursion to the South Bronx to scope out a burgeoning new art neighborhood, and take in a viewing of the debut exhibition of Cody Umans at 6BASE.

Umans has developed an approach to painting that brings together objects gathered from his daily life, found street signs or discarded galvanized tin planks and a presentation of the levels conceptual representation. The artist makes drawings, from nature and also art history books. Working in the grey scale, these drawings are then used as the subject mater for the more fully realized paintings, some on battered signs This melding of physical and conceptual resources, keeps the work from falling into a preconceived format, and challenges viewers to transition through levels of representation, to derive meaning. Also included are brief interviews with the artist Cody Umans, and 6BASE founder Marina Gluckman. This program was recorded March 17, 2019