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Article: John Grillo at Katharina Rich Perlow.(New York)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The legacy of Abstract Expressionism is complicated. While its groundbreaking phase goes back to the 1940s and early '50s, later generations of artists have continued to paint gesturally, acknowledging but not necessarily submitting to the outstanding painters who preceded them. It is a good thing that 87-year-old John Grillo has not been lost to memory, for his recent show of paintings and collages, from the 1950s and '60s, demonstrated a rich palette, a command of color, and the exuberant energy of someone in tune with the powerful artistic rhythms of his time.
Grillo studied with Hans Hofmann in 1947, making watercolors. Later, however, he turned to oil on ...