Painters

The Jim Dine show at Pace gallery is terrible and a big disappointment for me. I was hoping to see how this older gent had developed his representational language and potent imagery but instead we get these Large and bland abstract paintings that I think are totally unnecessary. They are muddy and ugly. However also at Pace is a beautiful show of Thomas Nozkowski's small complex and compact paintings that make up for the lousiness of the Dine show. Also abstract these are anything but lousy, I really loved his show. The images here are older works. The Dine is one of his current paintings in the exhibit.