Alex Katz at GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE and Meghan Brady & Gideon Bok at STEVEN HARVEY

James Kalm is out on a Sunday afternoon, doing what he does, when he steps into Gavin Brown’s Enterprise on the Lower East Side to view a drawing show by Alex Katz. With in minutes he bumps into Walter Robinson, Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz (which tells one the esteem in which Katz is held by the New York critical establishment). These drawings are all from the last couple of years and feature studies of friends and family. Zipping north, we stop in to view a two person show by husband and wife painters Meghan Brady and Gideon Bok titled “Colors and the Kids” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. Each of these artist’s work is enhanced by their mutual contrasts. While Bok renders obsessively detailed interiors in expressively rich textural oil paint, Meghan Brady creates coloristic studies with a complex layering of hues in graphic designs that recall classic modernist motifs and patchwork quilts. A musical introduction is provided by Little Walker. The Brady and Bok segment of this program was recorded May 8, 2016, and the Alex Katz segment was recorded May 15, 2016.