by Martin E 
Colin Ruel, Eric Lee Bowman, and Jon Legere‘s work showing at West Street’s Calico Brooklyn through tomorrow (6/13) can only loosely be thought of as working in the abstract. All works are generally two dimensional, non-representational, and refer to a history of this sort of thing.
Any parting from history might be due to art’s continuing blur into the real world, as well as a change from working…
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Several years ago MoMA did a retrospective on Richard Serra’s tar paintings which consisted of canvases stapled to a wall then painted in a black tar paint. The effect was arresting. No offense to the artist or writer, but if there is to be a real discourse on any artist’s work, one with a some knowledge of art history should instantly recognize Bowman’s black tar painting as a straight copy of Richard Serra, down to the consistency of paint. Bowman choose a good starting point but where he chooses to go from here will really show the world the mark he intents to leave behind.