James Kalm visits the exhibition Painting 101 at Sargent's Daughters, New York, on view through December 7, 2013. The show features paintings by Denis Hollingsworth, Francesca DiMattio, Jonathan Lasker, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, and Sandi Slone.

The gallery press release notes that "a force within painting has a hold over the viewer as well as the artist and, despite increasingly sophisticated technology that allows us to reproduce works in hard copy and digital formats, we still have the greatest communication with the painting when present before it… the five artists in Painting 101 speak in paint and communicate with brushstroke, color, collage and layer … The connection to the surface is as bound by material as it is method: each painter approaches the paint as they would words full of meaning and building towards something complete."