James Kalm visits the exhibition Craig Olson: 18 Melodies For The Barbarian Flute at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, on view through November 11, 2012.

Kalm writes: "Describing his spiritual influences as 'polytheistic,' Olsen crafts wooden panels and encrusts symbols, diagrammatic figures, collage and formalist abstract elements into the objects. This program includes an interview/tour with the artist Craig Olson discussing his theories of occult and mystic art, and their relation to formalist abstraction."