Installation shot, John Adams Griefen at Galerie Born Berlin, 2019. Top: "Dawson Dawn." Lower left: "Paradise." Lower right: "Copper Rose" All 2018. Photo by David Evison.
(I am delighted to welcome our roving correspondent, David Evison, back to (An Appropriate Distance) From the Mayor's Doorstep. His review this time is of the latest show of John Adams Griefen at the Galerie Born Berlin -- through October 26).
Griefen has for many years made paintings which should not be photographed because he shows us that they are for eyesight alone. Of course we need reproductions, be it to promote, sell or to remind. But look at "Hotspur" (2019) in this exhibition! Its bright crimson is Read More