Joanne Greenbaum I'm Doing My Face In Magic Marker at RACHEL UFFNER

James Kalm is cruising through the Lower East Side and catches a glimpse of some colorfully intriguing “works of art” through a gallery-front window. As a curious cultural consumer, your correspondent had to come back the next evening for an investigation, and found: “I’m Doing My Face In Magic Marker,” a selection of recent paintings and fused glass works by Joanne Greenbaum. With a masterful use of pure color, the addition of canvas panels onto the picture plane, and spontaneous scribbly compositions that read like blown up phone-doodles, Greenbaum explores the margins of contemporary abstract painting. A residency with Bullseye Glass Co. New York allowed the artist to push her research into the new media of kiln fused glass and play within the context of craft versus high art for some delicious examples of color and surface. This program was recorded January 5, 2020.

[@johnrichardson5357]

Thank you James and thank you Joanne

[@johnjones3714]

Nice Her glass work is gorgeous But really enjoyed it all

[@thirdrockjul2224]

Thank you Kate.

[@elizabethramage1026]

I would call her paintings “Fountain of Youth” because she captures the exuberance of children with her choice of colors and the use of materials while basing her choices on years of experience. The best of both worlds!

[@gavinyates9189]

Thank you Kate, thank you everybody

[@davidbacon9223]

GROSS ME OUT!!!..... after a few seconds, i had to click away for a few days, cuz that's not art! but a few days later, i've returned to look at the entire video...... what an AMAZING ARTIST! :-)

[@jayherres486]

Thank you James and Kate! Love her works in glass, wonderful strong designs, fantastic colors and great creativity. I think some of the paintings don't show her talents as fully. I don't know if it truly is Magic Markers but they fade like crazy! Scribbling, once rare is everywhere now, I think it's gone from shock to tiresome, so why not create great lines forming great creativity. Mixed media is so often the hot ticket, some is great and some not so much; to be great it has to offer some qualities not possible with a single medium or whats the point...more often than not it doesn't live up to the billing.

[@joannegreenbaum3356]

Jay Herres I use oil markers they don’t fade and also spray with uv matte spray to protect. Thanks

[@LeChakaraka]

Great comment

[@Billart]

definitely enjoyed the vid both her paintinggs & glass

[@casteretpollux]

Gorgeous colours. Thank you so much for sharing. There are some very beautiful canvases in there and real energy in the line and composition. Love the exhibition title too - humorous and I guess referring to the use of the 'wrong' medium.

[@treesart6914]

Cool! Thank you!

[@KM-mv1ho]

I am a fan of these paintings!

[@glenndockstader9327]

Love the paintings more than the glass works, although they are quite decorative. Her paintings remind me of Trudy Benson's work, with the bright colors and opposing motifs that create that play on space. Enjoy them. Thanks James and Kate.

[@alphajava761]

Fantastic. Unique. I had a friend who did amazing work with magic markers (prism) ...

[@DragonKnight401]

Damn that saxophone game was strong

[@markpx]

Beautiful play of the indoor lights over the painting's surface at 15.31.

[@thomaskenny3697]

wow ..... great show ........very talented artist .........thanks james and kate

[@dimosmalkoff]

Thank you James.. from Russia!

[@subudjj9368]

Itd be cool if u could mention the prices if they have a price list. Im always curious about that

[@dyanross925]

Great stuff! Thank you, James, and Kate. Interesting the way Greenbaum varies the way that she adds the smaller canvasses to the large work; sometimes painted or drawn as though added later, other times appearing as though part of the ongoing composition. My favourite was the final painting, amongst the glass works, with its dashing violets and greens against the slow squirming black and red.

[@PaulLewey]

Thank you James, I've stopped your video halfway through to write this, because I'm so impressed with this body of work by Joanne Greenbaum. I do love 'Untitled 80 x 70.' The reason for stopping half was because the title of her exhibition reminded me of a song, 'I'm Doing My Face With Magic Markers.' Is a line from a song by Christine And The Queens, called 'Tilt.' kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4Olq6agnMZqadU I wonder if this is connected? Anyway thank you again for your videos and Thank you Kate. Happy New Year to you both.... I shall carry on watching this great video and... Great Art!

[@andrewdarnley4608]

Hello James, I’m appreciating the works with lots of colour. I recently found you via the KZbin algorithm. So now I can sit back down here in rural Australia building guitars and making art. It's so great to see very current art from NY.

[@LawrenceCurrie]

Thank you Kate I enjoyed the Glass Sculptures or renderings redemption for the paintings uncomfortable feelings I got from viewing them. Kind of like one would feel at a large full Mall parking lot looking for a spot to park. This is the first time ever I was going to put a dislike of your videos, but I loved the glassworks

[@gavinyates9189]

Thank you Kate, thank you everybody. A child can scribble Scrabble just as good as an adult, paint smashing and squashing also.

[@michaelroberts8300]

Thank you James.

[@judithfarr]

Some absolutely brilliant work!

[@LALew850]

Really love this

[@charlestaylor6279]

Am I correct in thinking she's made a shape in foundry sand and then poured the liquid glass into the shape in the sand Then afterwards produced the details that we can see behind the glass ? Anyway, the effect is good and it's art. It's something I've not seen before. It's NOT the same old usual stuff we normally see week after week. This is inventive and done well. The acrylic painting were recognisable as art, but more or less the usual sort of art we see all the time

[@jameskalm]

I think the process involves her starting with sheets of glass, she then lays other pieces of glass on top, and it all fuses together when heated in the kiln...

[@barbatruc6344]

The glass art is honestly amazing. I wonder how Joanne does that...

[@ValerieEllis]

"you're half-arsed reporter" - ha, ha. But held in our affections.

[@darionirwin4138]

James why just the "u" lowercased? conscious or no?

[@MikeWitmerNatureJournal]

Some interesting areas in the paintings. i like the translation of her ideas into glass. On a general note there seems to be a certain sameness in a lot of what is appearing in the shows in many of your recent videos. Possibly a new New York School? I cannot put my finger on it exactly but several stylistic traits are common. Visiting graduate studios and seeing the work of younger unknown artists I see a much broader (and in my view more sophisticated) range of ideas than what is being showcased in the exhibits you are covering these days.

[@jameskalmroughcut]

I can't show you all the various trends, and practices that are going on these days in New York. That would take a team of hundreds, working twenty four hours a day. All I can do is show you a few of the things I see in the galleries when I'm out on my bike. If you see a "sameness", I'd say that you're picking up on the forces of the "market", the fashion trend side of the artist's situation here. This might seem restrictive (and it is) but, if you're a professional artist, and hope to make sales to a particular audience, then you can't go too far beyond the pail, because no one will take the risk of showing you. The cost of rent here is exorbitant, dealers are going broke and closing their galleries every day, so they're the last ones to gamble on their business future. Send your grad students, and younger unknown artists here, and we'll see how long they and their "broader range of ideas" last in the "real world" market. Don't take this as a put-down, but the art world is brutal, and the folks doing the business are desperate to stay in bisiness. Believe me, I know...

[@runway12]

This is what happens when you leave your paintings on the floor of a daycare. Always take the time to properly store away your paintings in a dry and secure place to avoid this from happening to you ! ! !

[@robsmith588]

I liked the glass works better than the paintings. In fact the glass works would look good as paintings.

[@sonnycorbi1970]

James, you give us a few seconds of viewing the total composition -I WANT TO SEE THE WORK not the condemns and broken glass it’s made of or from - you can talk about all these various elements from a distance and allow us to spend what precious time we have with each piece of. Work VIEWING IT, TAKING IT IN - please don’t take this personal :-) - That being said, some works require an up close observation

[@robertspies4695]

Stop your player and take a longer look

[@sictransitgloriamundi7590]

Perché sono qui?

[@thulaniearnshaw4094]

^

[@tomliii8619]

"Jewish Modern"?