Philip Guston Painter, 1957 – 1967 at HAUSER & WIRTH

James Kalm has assumed a mission to attempt to bring views of the most relevant, historic and important art exhibitions in New York to the on line video audience. Despite ten years and over one thousand programs produced by James Kalm, within the most elitist levels of the New York art world, there still resides a desire to exclude this form of democratic freelance reporting. Regardless of these hindrances, your déclassé correspondent slips into Hauser & Wirth Gallery, and before he is escorted to the exit, captures video glimpses of this epic exhibition. Philip Guston (1913 – 1980) was an essential member of the New York painting community, achieving major institutional and critical recognition during the 1950s. Despite this success, in the late 1950s he began questioning many of the propositions of Abstract Expressionism with which he’d become associated. Organized by Paul Schimmel, this selection of 36 paintings and 53 drawings, traces the development of Guston’s work during this transitional period from abstraction to the beginnings of his iconic figurative works. This program was recorded April 26, 2016 in Chelsea. A musical introduction is provided by Rasheed and the Jazz Collective.