LOVE POEMS: CURATED BY CHRIS MARTIN (SINGING IN UNISON, PART 11)

Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Love Poems, a group exhibition curated by Chris Martin.

March 12 – April 26, 2025

“Many years ago I was alone in a house lost in thought looking down at a hay field in the Catskill mountains. I could see McCumber Farm, the distant Armstrong fields, and the steep silhouette of Dry Brook Ridge. An autumn breeze came in from the treetops, and as if in a dream - a man I knew appeared - slowly dragging a large wooden rowboat with a rope behind him through the tall grass.

I recognized the old boat – now quite rotten – from my childhood. I watched transfixed as the bow cut through the dry grass, leaving a wake of flattened grass as it floated through the waving field.” - Chris Martin

The exhibition features the work of Julian Schnabel, Marsden Hartley, Joyce Pensato, Lance de los Reyes, Peter Gallo, A.R. Penck, Carroll Dunham, Ralph Albert Blakelock, Forrest Bess, Don Van Vliet, Alfred Jensen, Rose Wylie, Steve Dibenedetto, Mike Cloud, Ron Gorchov, Thomas Nozkowski, Jack Whitten, WOMBAT, William Hawkins, Katherine Bradford, Bill Jensen, Antoni Tàpies, Chuck Webster, Margrit Lewczuk, Peter Acheson, Purvis Young, Josh Smith, Mary Flinn, Sigmar Polke, Tamara Gonzales, Thornton Dial, Joe Bradley, Georg Baselitz, Kari Cholnoky, Anna de los Reyes, Martha Diamond, Rick Briggs, Hannah Beerman, EJ Hauser, Lonnie Holley, Jonathan DeDecker, Milton Avery, and many more.

“At that moment I loved that boat and loved the circling turkey buzzards. I loved the dry naples yellow of the grass. I loved that man and the hum of a distant chainsaw. I even loved my own loneliness. I hurried to help old John Asher drag that boat on its way to the burn pile at the bottom of the field.” - Chris Martin