Mána Taylor
Mána Taylor is a writer and art critic currently based in New York.
At the crack of dawn, usually around 6 a.m., Brad Kahlhamer stretches out a white bed sheet onto concrete. Just as the sun comes up, looking out into the distance in Mesa, Arizona, he paints. Chronological tales unfold, similar in structure to a book or a movie, but Kahlhamer documents his mind’s own stories. He explained to me that the bed sheet works in Bowery Nation: Birds are Talking at Venus over Manhattan depict “mind events rather than actual events.”
The Long Form follows Helen and her baby Rose during one day of their first weeks together as mother and daughter. They coexist inseparably, yet they are only just starting to know each other and still adjusting to each other’s rhythms. Their universe is slowly growing, expanding.
In her exhibition Sunny, Judy Ledgerwood has bold intentions. She began working on the paintings last January when she was searching for color during many gray days. At Denny Gallery, the paintings, as well as one large ceramic in the back of the gallery, feel necessary.
