Contributed by William Corwin / The paintings of Sam Jablon now on view at Morgan Presents produce delicious sentient confusion. The neural circuits devoted to looking at an image get crossed with those used to read text. We find the words, but, in Jablon’s hands, we don’t know what to do with them. Fuck, for example, a little 18-inch square painting in solid yellow with blue with black lettering, seems less about sex and more about the frustrated expletive. Or perhaps it’s a cold command, broken down into two letters on top, F and U, and two letters below, C and K. We also fix…
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Sam Jablon: Between seeing and reading
Guest contributor Adam Henry / Painter-poet Sam Jablon is poised to open a double show in April occupying both Freight + Volume’s downtown gallery and their […]
Peter Scott’s two-part disappearance and James Siena’s Sometimes
Sam Jablon / Part two of Peter Scott’s exhibit “Pardon Our Disappearance” is on view at Sometimes (works of art), painter James Siena‘s small gallery […]





















