Whitehot Suggests: Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater

Kim Dingle, Untitled (Not to Worry), image courtesy of Sperone Westwater, New York 

By NOAH BECKER, March, 2018

Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater is really worth seeing -  I went to their sprawling location on the Bowery in New York City a few days ago and saw the show. It's ending on Saturday March 3rd, so run over there and take a look.

Dingle's grisaille paintings of children are painted on a hazy plastic material and that reminds me of Canadian artist Glenn Howarth, my late painting teacher who also used these materials. Glenn went through a phase of painting on plastic and the result is the ghostly interaction of the paint on the surface.

I spent several years studying this technique under Howarth along with my former classmate Trevor Guthrie who recently had a solo show at Gian Enzo Sperone's gallery in Sent, Switzerland. It's a small world, as usual in the art world. In the meantime we can look at art and Kim Dingle is a pleasure to see. WM