Just before I got on the phone with Ojai, California-based painter, Brian Calvin, I wrote a little note to myself: “Bridging the gap.” I wasn’t sure how this was going to infiltrate our conversation, but subconsciously this phrase sounded perfectly in tune with the prolific artist. From his 30 years of figurative painting, his love of Philip Guston, the influence of Funk art, his continued success with solo shows around the world, to the incredible coincidence of 2020 solo exhibits in China and NYC, Calvin has built a career of bridges. His work is vibrant, constant. His evolution appears dramatic when seen from above over three decades of paintings, but each show elicits a conversation with his past and present, and that seems exactly where Calvin is most happy—in the moment. We spoke on an early fall day, as California suffered through another heat wave with fires burning north to south and east to west. The paintings for Calvin’s seventh solo show with Anton Kern Gallery, Waiting, now at the gallery’s Upper East Side location through December 5, were about to be sent to the East Coast. We spoke at length about Guston, what it means to be a California artist and how the studio still excites him.
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Noelia Towers
Empathy and Enlightenment
Nehemiah Cisneros
Legend of a Wicked City
Joy Yamusangie
Primary Colors
rafa esparza
A Sense of Generosity
Eric Yahnker
The Serious Side of a Joke
Ivy Haldeman
Notions of Slippage
Timothy Lai
Painted Syncopation
Katherine Bernhardt
Everlasting Butter
Sabrina Bockler
Conversing From Within
The Burn to Rebirth
Valencia, Spain During Fallas