Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me at DAVID ZWIRNER

James Kalm is pleased to bring viewers “I carry my landscapes around with me” David Zwirner’s first exhibition of this masters work. Covering nearly forty years of developments, this show is the first to focus on the artist’s use of the multi-panel format. To quote the press release, “One of the few artists from her generation to embrace polyptych compositions Mitchell over time refined and expanded her approach to the format, orchestrating a distinctive balance between continuity and rupture both within and across panels. The horizontally oriented panoramic expanse of these paintings is ideally suited to landscape.” A musical introduction is provided by Diahann Taylor. This program was recorded June 13, 2019.

[@laurenlevine9832]

Thank you James for dedicating so much of your life to making and sharing these videos with us. For those of us who can't make it to a lot of these shows, as painful as it is to miss them, you give us quiet time with the work, looking in at the details, moving like our own eyes and bodies do back and forth. I feel like I didn't entirely miss it because of you. And as always, thank you Kate!

[@jameskalm]

Thanks @Lauren Levine for this toughing appreciation.

[@emileconstance5851]

Mitchell was on a roll in the 70s and early 80s! Thank you Kate and James!

[@tonsfocus]

Mitchell and Twombly are in the pantheon of greats, and their legacy lives on. Big ups to a job well done on your part James! Really enjoyed watching this one. You are a gift to the world, esp. the outside of NYC bit of the world. Thank you (and Kate)!

[@SA-xg5eo]

Thank you for recording your visit here and thank you Kate

[@lindagilbert4821]

Thanks to Kate and James. I really enjoyed this show. I appreciated that you included Diahann Taylor for the intro in recognition of strong female artists.

[@rossanadurancerrato470]

You are an artist James kalm!! Thank you FROM THE HEART for carry us to Paradise: Joan Mitchell ART

[@douglasacosta4989]

Der Mann mit der sehr seltsamen Stimme und Art zu berichten...!

[@dyanross925]

If I can't get there, it was so good to see Joan Mitchell's late paintings here. Enjoyed seeing the installation views become slow-time close examinations of Joan's marks and paint-handling, and interesting to wonder about whether she was working on these on the floor, or up on ladders. Also, love the way some of her drips are the colour of her ground, sometimes making it appear as though they are coming through the upper thicker layers. Thank you, James, and thank you, Kate!

[@jameskalm]

Thanks @Dyan Ross, yeah, I also noticed some of the drips running up which means Joan was flipping the paintings too...

[@maryporter3637]

Thankyou for covering this amazing show , living in a different country I really appreciate being part of the scene

[@robsmith588]

What a treat thanks James beautiful beautiful work gestural abstraction does not get better than this.

[@nicolabishop996]

Thank you. Much appreciated. Joan Mitchell is hugely inspirational. The freedom in the brush strokes, her magnificent relationship with colour, unflinching truth in her expression.

[@barbarasenglaub1655]

Love this! Thanks James and Kate!

[@dijanaharding8111]

Thank you so much for this wonderful report, love your work.

[@patrickcareyart4080]

Wow this painting Minnesota, is just pure joy to view. Her colour is so uplifting and inspiring! Thank you for Sharing James!

[@beccaduran268]

Love Joan Mitchell's works. Thanks so much for this video actually for all your videos. Your videos are such a gift to us in the hinterlands. And btw, you are gonna love The Ninth Street Women. I read it twice. It really illustrates so well how heroic not just Hartigan, Mitchell, Krasner, Frankenthaler and de Kooning's wife ( whose name escapes me right now were but also highlights the careers of their famous partners, men whose struggles in the art world were in many ways also heroic. I so love that period in American art -also because it aligns with the heyday of jazz. Both the Abstract Expressionists and jazz put us on the world stage. Thanks so, so much. Becca

[@jameskalm]

@Becca Duran, I'm glad you liked the video. Yes I've just finished reading the Ninth Street Women. It's great and lots of interesting information that I hadn't run into before. Thanks again-JK

[@joancollier4488]

Thank you Kate and James. That was the very next best thing to being in the gallery!

[@lucygodwinart5961]

OMG I am dying of JOY. THANKS so much for posting this. I was unable to see this exhibition and love Joan Mitchell. You are so wonderful in all your videos and love your commentaries. THANKS sooo much for this incredible treat.

[@brydon10]

Fantastic. Thanks James.

[@LALew850]

Thank-you James! This is such a great show! From Louisiana

[@crosslegged1979]

Thanks so much James & Kate! And Diahann, what a voice!

[@invisibleboy3997]

Just like seeing old friends...thank you James.

[@ljquill]

love the way you're sharing the amazing artists of NYC. thank you!

[@paulinawaas9204]

Thank you... great presentation!

[@guyporter6105]

So fabulous

[@pascalproulx]

Mrs. JamesKalm , vous faites un excellent travail didactique et pédagogique sur les arts visuels pour un grands ensemble de personnes qui si connaissent peu en arts. Merci de votre contribution vidéographique pour nous faire voir et mieux apprécier le travail de ses artistes visuels en galerie . Comme Peintre , je vous dit Merci .

[@scottgarrison9558]

Wonderful ! and thanks for this. I so wish I could see this one but you film just the way I would look at it, great close ups. Why are there no more great painters like this?

[@morganrussell6335]

Scott Garrison you just have to look harder. Check out Aristotle Forrester from Boston.

[@dawnarobertson9577]

Her choice of color is so exquisite, it almost hurts. Joan Mitchell knew COLOR!

[@mostaphaamadin4349]

Thank you for sharing this 🙏

[@alyaasaad9740]

THANK U FOR THIS!!!

[@tharkanzox1493]

I was not an appreciator of Mitchell and i can honestly say I now “get” and truly enjoy her work from your three videos

[@kikomotta7123]

Thank you so much for all the videos. I'm probably never gonna be able to make it to any of these kind of shows but in São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro, but I have to say your videos are enough to me in a way. Much much much love from Brasil!

[@rizwandar1]

Wow this is amazing.. every piece is like contemplative and to dive into.

[@jefreid]

YOURE AWESOME JAMES!

[@noumine]

Thank you, Kate and James.

[@TheTerminalExpress]

Joan was on record saying that the multi-panel pieces should be seen as one cohesive picture. My guess is that she painted the panels because she had a small studio near her home in France.

[@femkekuiling9972]

Awesome!!!!!

[@frcscrts6617]

Thank you James for the quality of your video, I could watch this over and over again because I like Joan's work and also for your discrete voice, a bit grave-like: this is serious business isn't it? ... but I understand the emotion. Looking forward to seeing other great artists exhibitions you will undoubtedly take us to.

[@M0D60]

Joan's Brush strokes are enchanting. She stands in front of canvas, extends Her arm with paintbrush and the paintbrush comes to life. Painting on it's own accord. Tq

[@kimwilkie9819]

Thank you Kate!

[@philhavara3330]

big thanks!!! from austria

[@paperpalacequeen]

Greetings from London!

[@Yzyxdolorza]

For anyone interested, the title of the exhibition is a line from “Mitchell Paints a Picture” an interview with Irving Sandler for ARTNews. It’s online so you can google it.

[@vincentmonet6172]

Cheers James. 😎

[@thirdrockjul2224]

Thank you Kate.

[@morganrussell6335]

What a breath of fresh air... thank you Kate!

[@thegraciecat1]

Joan is a breath of freh air? You must have just come out of a barrel of oil.

[@morganrussell6335]

Jj Dd Long I wish!

[@thegraciecat1]

@@morganrussell6335 No offense intend Morgan....I love and attempt abstraction but just cannot get with this stuff. I love intentional stuff abstract or realism. Im hoping JK sees my humor but I think he was starting to breath a little more rapidly than usual.

[@morganrussell6335]

Jj Dd Long I see your point that it's not for everyone. I'm just a sucker for gestural abstraction (although it's tempered a bit in my own work), especially when it references nature. And our "guy on the bike" seems to me like someone with a pretty well developed sense of humor...

[@thegraciecat1]

@@morganrussell6335 Just watched your Harbour Interests video and enjoyed getting to know you.

[@dees9502]

Great stuff, brother 👍🤲🙏

[@reefmarch8139]

...awesome!!!!....😛💥🌴🌊🐅🔥🥃💯

[@rosevan5485]

Thank you for taking your time to film this. As an artist with limited budget for my art, I truly appreciate what you did. Cheers.

[@user-tr6cy5xp6q]

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[@loxleyiswise4637]

Greetings from Preston

[@mikelove9832]

Thank you Kate : } =

[@johnlewis9650]

Are any of these pieces for sale or is this an exhibition. If they are only being exhibited how does the gallery benefit? Amazing show.

[@jameskalm]

I don't know if any of these pieces are "for sale". Obviously, if you've got the money, anything is "for sale"...Regarding how a gallery would benefit from a show like this? The prestige and "cultural capital" they receive from their peers from presenting an event like this is inestimable.

[@LyubomirIko]

Pay me the materials, the food and the rent for the studio - I will output one or more such large panel for you every day ☺️ The fact is every artist can do it and must do exsacly this - but instead of this most just struggle to get space, materials and money - eventually giving such hopes of producing art at all. Those holding the galleries usually are making much more money for themselves using the art and the artist, all the collection holders etc, so instead of thinking about how gallery function - better found artist you support personally.

[@svetlana6711]

❤

[@xale7593]

the show/video title is: fuck yes; love it, the visual cortex as landscape as blot splatter code of consciousness modality making

[@plastictube1]

Great work! I wonder if basquiat studied her...i can see these paintings in a book along side a twombly book..in his studio

[@jameskalm]

I think Basquiat was like a magpie, in that, he looked at everything, and collected those shiny, interesting, useful things that he could use to build his own work...

[@plastictube1]

@@jameskalm definetly! I see tons of her work in basquiat...Lot more than twombly...pretty interesting actually

[@LALew850]

The music was good too. Thanks Dianne Taylor👍 Who was that street guy I used to hear on your channel? He could sing anything! He Always wore glasses and the same torn shirt. He was really good. What is his name? I hope he’s still singing! Thanks James!

[@LALew850]

I’m going to be up all night trying to remember this guys name. I think he won a contest in Harlem for singing Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”. White guy, thick glasses, always wore the same shirt, great voice. Please let me know his name. Always enjoyed listening to him sing.

[@LALew850]

Super Bad Brad!! Now I can go to sleep😄👍

[@jameskalm]

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[@michaellawson2797]

U should do a report on the keifer show at gagosian I heard he has been using some color lately

[@culturefan]

Interesting to see the Mitchell paintings. She and many of the action painters influenced much that came after them. I always thought she had good color co-ordination in her paintings.

[@JadenJahci]

"James,..Why is it,..that there is not even one broken plate stuck to them?...??" -Borat Kind Regards, Cy Tw-izzle

[@nedrelow]

I think she had mixed feelings about Monet because people would say his name to her a lot, esp. because the front house at her place was an actual place Monet had lived. She said his name with a hard T on purpose... MoneT. :)

[@davidhelsham2901]

I think the colours tend towards a bit discordant at times.

[@richardmcellistremartist8298]

who is Kate

[@annesaur7025]

Please try to keep the Camera calm , i get sick

[@pradeep7803]

You are doing a great work... 👍 Why dont you start a Instagram profile it will be more helpful for people like us..

[@jameskalm]

I'm on Instagram here: @lorenj.munk

[@latetodagame1892]

Did you know Joan?

[@jameskalm]

No @Late Motha, Joan was in New York long before my time here. Then she moved permanently to France, and I never met her...JK

[@latetodagame1892]

@@jameskalm that stinks. She's amazing.

[@thegraciecat1]

JK, I keep thinking you are going to finally break from out laughing and admit that you ave been stringing us along all this time about Joan.......Joe

[@jameskalm]

Nope, Joan is the REAL DEAL, and I've been a fan forever. This show just confirms my appreciation...

[@MikeWitmerNatureJournal]

The space and light is of impressionism. VanGogh and Monet. Compared to other painters of the era these are not very progressive for the 1970s. Never really understood what made her such a star.

[@noj996]

a great eye for composition and use of colour

[@ElectricPid]

Joan’s work bugs me. I don’t know exactly why. Maybe because the brush strokes cower at the edge. Maybe because the splashes look garish on the plainness of a white background. These central blobs. Maybe the subtlety is apparent in person, in the mark-making gestures, but I’m not sure. It just seems like the ab-ex faux pas they try to talk you out of in art class.

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

If you think joan Mitchell can paint you have chugged the kool-aid.

[@RobertF-]

Can we be really honest? Some of these musicians you showcase are making more real art than any of these painters. Maybe you could make a channel just about NYC street musicians? Thank you Kate

[@jameskalm]

I've thought about it. Maybe you could fund it?

[@ethanwilloughby8789]

i disagree with your statement on their being known for their chunky paintings, maybe more boogery

[@delberry8777]

Please don't say "action painter' it suggests a thoughtlessness that is the opposite of Joan Mitchell paintings i.m.o.

[@jameskalm]

Sorry Del Berry, the classification "action painting" is a category that has been accepted since the early 1950s by historians, academics, and the art conscious general public. If you've got a beef about the moniker, you should take it up with Harold Rosenberg... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Rosenberg I'd also recommend that you at least take a glance at "The American action painters" essay that Rosenberg penned in 1951(?) It might help elucidate why this term is important as a distinction from Ab-Ex... www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obriene/art112/readings/rosenberg%20american%20action%20painters.pdf

[@444ltr]

I'm sorry, its just awful. The brush stroke are jagged and the paintings look very amateurish. I can't believe David Zwirner featured this in this gallery.

[@Yzyxdolorza]

Why would you say this? Mitchell began painting as a child and studied art seriously for many years, in Chicago and NYC ... and had both a BFA and MFA from the Art Institute in Chicago. She was highly regarded her entire 50 yr. career by fellow artists and gallery owners. What you like or don't like should never close the door to appreciation.

[@thegraciecat1]

@@Yzyxdolorza If I painted like Mitchell, I wouldn't tell anyone that I had a formal education.....all my excuses would vanish.

[@LyubomirIko]

Abstract expressionism can't really be amateur-ish with that scale and such massive production output. That doesn't mean you have to be professional to do it eather. It is all about just to have the guts to do it, as well the resources. It is specific beauty - and exactly those jagged, free and uncontrolled brush strokes are part of that beauty. You seems to miss the whole concept and language, but this is rather usual.

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

by jOAN mitcHeLL. age 40. titLEd " wE get PiZZa on FRiDay"