A couple of strong cups of coffee and into Manhattan to meet Peggi’s sister and our nephews but first we had to stop in the Lower East side to see a show of paintings by Don Voisine at McKenzie Fine Art. His work is exquisite so we spent some time here devouring it and talking with the owner. About a third of the paintings, mostly modest sized wood panels, had sold and she was wondering aloud whether she had pieced them high enough. She told us he sells mostly to other artist so she wanted to keep the prices affordable. I could have put one of the small ones in my bag for 1400 bucks. Voisine’s paintings are extremely flat, hard edged colors, mostly back, but the forms leap off the panels and are so far from flat we were laughing with delight. They are in playful dialog with Kazamir Malevich from the grave.
We hooked up with our nephews in SoHo and Andrew led the art hunt from there with his iPhone. We did the “Drawing Center” and “Artist’s Space” and then both Dia locations where we took in Walter DeMaria’s “Unbroken Kilometer” and stunning “Earth Room”, a huge SoHo loft filed with dirt.
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I love that painting. I wish I had thought of it.