Dennis Hollingsworth

Shape of Painting

Back in NYC, my first stop was to see Saul Ostrow's curated group show at The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation located at 87 Eldridge Street in the LES (Lower East Side), NYC.

An incisive, extremely well thought out exhibition, The Shape of Painting offers an excellent survey of how painting has extended the realm of plasticity to the historically most overlooked aspect of the medium, the nature of the support. Saul Ostrow, a legendary curator / critic / nearly a philosopher, wrote an immensely thoughtful essay that accompanies a richly succinct overview of the subject, organizing an otherwise unwieldy topic. (The fact that I'm a friend presses no weight on this scale of his esteem. He's that good.) This essay is available in the exhibition catalog, which is now available from The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation.

If you haven't already, please click on the Resnick/Passlof's Foundation exhibition web page to read the press release, an object example of how such a thing should be done... and if you're living in the Tri-State area, get down there and see the show.

A. Must. See.