Artforum, December 1st, 2004
BRIAN CALVIN
ANTON KERN GALLERY
An unofficial poll conducted on the opening night of painter Brian Calvin's New York solo debut found several visitors prefacing their responses with an identical qualifier: "I wanted to like it, but. . ." This raises a couple of questions: Why were so many so eager to buy into the hype surrounding this laid-back Californian, and why were they so disappointed? An appreciation of Calvin's work has always depended on a tolerance for what the gallery's press release terms "bi-dimensionality"-a flatly undemonstrative mode in which very little "happens" and ambigui...
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