A bunch of random still lifes, with series of the same
picture repeating (with minuscule changes?), some nice colors, hmmm. Has Roe
Ethridge left Andrew Kreps? Did he not have a show ready in time? Kelm’s work
is more sculptural than Ethridge’s, but the pictures are not nearly as well put
together. Kreps is a bad venue to be showing this kind of thing, in or within a
decade of Ethridge making work for that matter. Kelm’s random assemblage of work
is an empty caricature of Ethridge. Ethridge used the technique as a way to
describe places and give an artistic voice to his day job as a stock
photographer. Like Kelm, he hoped to force people to engage in what an art
photograph can be. Unfortunately, the following wave of similar work just comes
off as random to the point of empty fashion, impenetrable, a cheep way to allow
viewers to project ideas without the responsibility of actually saying
anything. It’s time we all move on and start making sense.
PS Roe Ethridge is listed on Kreps’s roster but hasn’t had a
show there since 2011 and currently is having a show at Gagosian’s Beverly
Hills location, so does Andrew Kreps still represent Roe Ethridge?
Through Nov. 2nd
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