“Jim Nutt: Shouldn’t We Be More Careful?” at David Nolan Gallery, New York (September 6 through October 14): Jim Nutt may have been one of the founders of the “Hairy Who”—the group of six “Chicago Imagists” who emerged from the Art Institute in the 1960s with an aggressive, comic, and sometimes grotesque representational style—but his paintings over the years have become closely shaved. Opening this week at David Nolan Gallery, “Shouldn’t We Be More Careful?,” an exhibition of twenty-three of Nutt’s latest works on paper, reveals the sharpness of his cutting blade. Returning to the same strange figure he has drawn since the 1980s, Nutt here conveys a maximum of emotion with a minimum of line, all drawn with laser precision. —JP
September 6, 2023
