Word: palley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Diao, 28, came to New York eight years ago from Gambier, Ohio, where he had been studying philosophy at Kenyon College. In his new show at the Reese Palley Gallery, his work, which once was austere almost to the point of impalpability, has taken on a peculiar density and resonance. Thick swaths of glossy acrylic are rolled onto the canvas in 5-ft.-wide swipes, and then buried by further layers. "I wanted to get away from all those tricks and nuances," says Diao. "I like to just lay a color down and leave it." The broad squeegee marks...
Robert Zakanych exhibited at Reese Palley last November, and a new artist of singular grace and power seemed to have arrived. Praised as a colorist, Zakanych-a solidly built, Midwestern-looking 36-year-old who actually hails from New Jersey-denies the classification: "People are always trying to tell me I'm a color painter. In fact my work is just about painting." Nevertheless, color is the overriding content and subject of Zakanych's work. He manipulates it with stunning precision, by dividing the canvas with a grid of close rectangular intervals and then producing tiny, almost imperceptible...
Either way, the Whitney has been forced into a power game whose rules are all written by the opposing players. This is the more unfortunate since the Whitney's efforts to reflect black American art have been demonstrably earnest. Says Dealer Reese Palley, who shows both Williams and Johnson: "The Whitney is in a totally unresolvable situation in which there can be no heroes. As far as I am concerned, the Whitney and Baur have been perfectly proper in all their approaches to the black community, and did everything in their power to make the show a success...
Galleries first came to SoHo two years ago when Paula Cooper opened her cosy aerie up three flights of creaky, splintery stairs. More recent arrivals include Max Hutchinson, a peripatetic Australian; Reese Palley, an Atlantic City Boardwalk porcelain salesman; and smooth-talking, Brooklyn-born Ivan Karp. Uptown dealer Richard Feigen maintains a downtown branch in SoHo, and two more uptown power houses-Castelli and Emmerich-recently announced plans to open outlets in the neighborhood...