James Kalm visits the exhibition Mark Greenwold: Murdering the World, Paintings and Drawings 2007-2013 at Sperone Westwater, New York, on view though June 28, 2013.
Kalm notes that "due to the excruciatingly labor intensive nature of the work, seeing these pictures is treat and an historical event. This show presents about six years of paintings and drawings, and provides visitors an opportunity to glimpse an in depth selection of these extraordinary works. Inspired by visionary painters like Richard Dadd and the Flemish masters, Greenwold paints minutely detailed scenes of mundane interiors, but populates them with dramatic tableaus highlighting portraits of friends so closely observed that viewers may find these representations repugnant."