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On view at Greene Naftali is a wonderful new painting by Ellsworth Kelly titled Green Relief.  It’s in line with much of Kelly’s ouevre being both bold and graphic while questioning the modes of painting.  I have always thought of Kelly as the master-painter of the late New York School, or Post-Painterly Abstraction, or Late High-Modernism.  His pictures, specificaly this one, always seem pertinent.  Kelly, perhaps the oldest artist on view in this group exhibition centered around painting’s longevity, imparts a message of balance to show that toils and follies with gestural brushwork and conceptual trickery.  The large green shape sits atop a shock of white canvas.  There is a gentle hint of space.  But it is largely about the limitations of painting as a media.  Once again, masterful Ellsworth presents a calm and sobering view of a media that will never die.  Thankfully, the audience is astutely attentive.

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