{"id":961,"date":"2011-06-09T13:17:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2011-08-03T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T18:42:55","slug":"paul-sietsema-at-matthew-marks-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/09\/paul-sietsema-at-matthew-marks-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Sietsema at Matthew Marks Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Sietsema, "Untitled figure\/ground study (Degas\/Obama)," 2011. Photograph courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If it weren\u2019t for the schooner by the doorway at Paul Sietsema<\/a>\u2019s first New York gallery solo, I\u2019d have missed the boat.\u00a0 Not-quite-right details reveal that what looks like an aged old photograph of a sailboat is in fact a meticulous drawing that demonstrates in a flash how painterly skill adds value and interest to an artwork.\u00a0 In this otherwise aesthetically restrained but intellectually stimulating show, Sietsema allows trace evidence of his hand in pieces that look digitally produced or printed, questioning his own role as a craftsman in the digital age and floating an inconclusive but engaging argument that artistic survival means cleverly thwarting expectations.<\/p>\n

In the past, Sietsema has exhibited films of sculptural objects; the drawings here allow us the intimacy to appreciate his handiwork.\u00a0 Two untitled pieces resembling expressive abstractions in black ink also include depictions of bottles of Krylon \u2018Short Cuts\u2019 paint, humorously highlighting how Sietsema doesn\u2019t take shortcuts in his labor intensive, cerebral, and non-emotive project.\u00a0 At the bottom of one, the phrase \u201cbroken down and experimental\u2026broken down beauty,\u201d bespeaks the pleasure of piecing together Sietsema\u2019s deconstructions.<\/p>\n

Two pieces titled, \u2018Painter\u2019s Mussel\u2019 refer to shells used to hold paint but show Sietsema flexing his intellectual muscle in complicated pictures of disassembled framed photographs drawn to resemble photographic negatives which appear to have been printed.\u00a0 From the aged photograph of the boat and images that pit old technology (the brush) with new, to two pieces replicating the dated medium of newspaper pages (including an article on Obama reversing a Bush policy) Sietsema suggests that with passage of time ascendency fades \u2013 the smart artist adapts by working outside of traditional expectations.<\/p>\n

Condensed version of this review published in Time Out New York, issue 815, June 2-8, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If it weren\u2019t for the schooner by the doorway at Paul Sietsema\u2019s first New York gallery solo, I\u2019d have missed the boat.\u00a0 Not-quite-right details reveal that what looks like an aged old photograph of a sailboat is in fact a meticulous drawing that demonstrates in a flash how painterly skill adds value and interest to … <\/p>\n

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