{"id":20359,"date":"2014-02-19T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=20359"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T16:38:55","slug":"loren-munk-pix-from-the-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2014\/02\/19\/loren-munk-pix-from-the-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"~LOREN MUNK . . PIX FROM THE OPENING"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOREN MUNK – ‘YOU ARE HERE’
\nopened SAT, FEB 15, 2014
\nthe show runs thru MARCH 15, 2014
\nFREIGHT+VOLUME<\/a> – 530 WEST 24th ST , CHELSEA, NYC<\/p>\n

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\nLOREN MUNK, painter and video\/archivist, at center, with . . KATE AUGENBLICK, and NICK LAWRENCE.<\/p>\n

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\nalso at the opening, ERIK DEN BREEJEN.
\nErik Den Breejen<\/a> is also a ‘brute’, as in high contrast colorist, and he also works with hand-lettered fonts, and diagramming ‘cultural’ info \/ via pure ‘text’, so . . it was interesting to see him here.
\nErik told me . . . he has a show of new work coming up at FREIGHT+VOLUME in about 2 months . .<\/p>\n

interestingly, he also told me he had visited LOREN MUNK’S studio, and that . . “Loren has painted a pretty good ‘map’ of the cutting edge \/ ‘contemporary’ artist scene in Williamsburg”, or as he put it . . . “well, I mean, I’m on it.” !!
\nI’m taking that . . as a ‘yes’ !! <\/p>\n

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\nthe very ‘painterly’ information graphics were set out in different ways, some like ribbons, and streamers, some like maps, some like puzzles.<\/p>\n

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\nLOREN MUNK, ‘Armory Century’, 2012-2013. oil on linen, 72 x 66 in.
\n($28,000)<\/p>\n

‘Armory Century’ was presented as a American geographic-style . . ‘map’.
\nit held quite a bit of info . . & history.<\/p>\n

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\nWILLIAM DE KOONING holds his first one man show at CHARLES EGAN GALLERY, 1948.<\/p>\n

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\nMARCEL DUCHAMP arrives in NYC, from PARIS, 1915.<\/p>\n

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\nSEPTEMBER 11th, 2001 – THE WORLD TRADE CENTERS are crashed down, makes the cut !!
\nhello, my young friends . . at 15 WARREN STREET !! <\/p>\n

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\nLOREN MUNK, ‘CLEMENT GREENBERG (large)’, 2005-2006. oil on linen. 48 x 72 in.
\n($16,000)<\/p>\n

I found this one, particularly interesting, mostly because of the overall composition, which centered on the simple, but spirited . . cartoon-like portrait of CLEMENT GREENBERG, and the way the pictorial\/narrative focus on .. a single, individual ‘player’. . evolved.
\nalthough all the work in the exhibit pulsed with an ‘outsiders’ obsession, and seemed infused with a American folk art-like character, this one seemed to have an almost ‘Russian’ revolutionary poster ‘feel’, and alluded well to the European roots of modern art.<\/p>\n

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\nthe color and ‘font’ work was also . . very compelling.
\n‘insider\/outsider’ . . is harder to define these days, so it was also intriguing to look back with Loren Munk . . at the days when the art world was so much ‘simpler’, kind of a big . . ole boys club.<\/p>\n

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\nCLEMENT GREENBERG, ‘Born in the Bronx .. Jan 16, 1909.’
\nthe timeline was fascinating. that’s more than a hundred years . . ago !!<\/p>\n

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\n‘1933 WORKS AS A TRAVELING SALESMAN’ . . .
\nthe next date highlighted is: ‘1950 meets HELEN FRANKENTHALER.’<\/p>\n

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\nLOREN MUNK, ‘DEAD WRITE’, 2010. oil on linen, 60 x 36 in.
\n($12,000)<\/p>\n

one of the smaller pieces in the show, it also was the only one to reference 2 cutting edge, but yes, DEAD !! superstars.
\nsplayed out . . on a map of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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\nJEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT . . 1960-1988, 57 Great Jones St.<\/p>\n

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\nDASH SNOW . . 1981-2009, Lafayette Hotel, 38 East 4th St.<\/p>\n

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\nROBERT STORR.
\nhaha. my young friends .. at YALE !!
\nthe painting was a chart, a diagram that opposed dead artists on the left, with living ‘writers’ on the right. <\/p>\n

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\nmy old boss at artnet, WALTER ROBINSON . . . made the cut.<\/p>\n

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\nbut, like the painting bold proclaims at the bottom:
\n“NO CORRELATION IS IMPLIED.”<\/p>\n

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\nLOREN MUNK, ‘The Irascibles’, 2008. oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in.
\n($6,500)<\/p>\n

this was also a very unique piece, in that it centered on an almost primitive \/ photographic rendering of a ‘group’, and took the form of a ‘riddle’.<\/p>\n

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\nI mean, who the hell . . were the Irascibles ? and I do (!!) have a masters degree in fine art & and decades of being immersed in the art scene !!
\nso, in a way, this piece was the most . . ‘interactive’ to me, in that, I wanted to rush home, and do . . some research !!
\nwhat a bunch of . . characters.<\/p>\n

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\nI only knew the answer to one (!!) question.
\nthe top one: JACKSON POLLOCK.<\/p>\n

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\ncan YOU<\/strong> . . answer this ?<\/p>\n

‘As of this date, December 2007, the last surviving member of “the Irascibles’ and the only female. Unfortunately her work has been excluded from the canon of postwar American art.’<\/p>\n

answer: HEDDA STERNE, and yes, checkout: HEDDA STERNE <\/a><\/p>\n

wow, she lived to be . . 100 !!
\nshe died in NYC in 2011.
\ncheck out: her work<\/a>, Loren .. is right. unfortunate x 100,000.<\/p>\n

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\nlooking back at art . . with LOREN MUNK.<\/p>\n

a lot of ‘dead’ stuff . . comes vividly back to life, with renewed relevance – and hopefully a new . . ‘take’.<\/p>\n

these paintings are as colorful & inventive, as they are ‘informative’ . .
\nfor sure, they take . . ‘flight’ – as ‘art’ in their own: right<\/strong> \/ write<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

& yes<\/strong>, you want to check out: The Irascibles<\/strong><\/a>, a group of American abstract painters . . who in 1950 wrote an open letter<\/strong> rejecting the MET exhibit ‘American Painting Today’, and set .. NYC and, art history . . into a tail spin !! <\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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