Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“I can’t think of a better metaphor for our human construct of time than air slowly escaping from a balloon.”
Jason Karolak
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The Pursuit of Art, 2017
A year of truth-telling and electric painting.
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The High Drama of Hot Color in a Field of Black
Jason Karolak’s colors grab your attention like flashing LEDs in a dark-as-midnight casino.
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Painting from the Ground Up
The first paintings you see in Construction Site, the new exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side, are three slabs of red polyurethane resin with wood inlays by Noah Loesberg.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2015
2015 was the Year of the Whitney.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Jason Karolak
Jason Karolak and I spoke over beers in his studio one day during the never-ending winter.
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Dark Matter: Jason Karolak’s Wayward Abstractions
There are times in a painter’s development when progress is slow and incremental, and there are times when everything just pops. In Polyrhythm, Jason Karolak’s luminous solo show of abstract paintings at McKenzie Fine Art, everything just pops.
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Spinning a Web: When Art Addresses the Infinite
Every so often the idea behind an exhibition comes across as so pertinent and expansive that it makes you wonder why it hasn’t already become part of the conversation. This appears to be the case with Reticulate, a group show at McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side, which explores the concept of