ARTFORUM: Jeffery Kastner Reviews Cathouse Proper: Presence Chamber

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ARTFORUM: Jeffery Kastner Reviews Cathouse Proper: Presence Chamber

 “On a Thursday afternoon at the beginning of February, I joined an unusual Zoom broadcast linking Cathouse Proper in Brooklyn with its director, David Dixon, who was in Iowa. The occasion was the installation of the first gallery exhibition of works by painter Alex Brown since his death almost exactly four years earlier. Dixon—who is also an artist and was at the time participating in a residency Brown’s family had initiated posthumously in his name—was sitting with the late painter’s mother at her home south of Des Moines, directing the proceedings back at Cathouse and talking with her about her son.”    

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