Alice Neel: People Come First, a retrospective of approximately one hundred paintings, drawings, and watercolors at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first of its kind from a New York Museum. Neel is one of the century’s most radical painters, a champion of social justice with a longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life… Continue reading People Come First
Tag: Contemporary Art
Modern Latinx Art
Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio in New York, was the museum’s first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art featuring more than 40 artists from across the United States and Puerto Rico. Featured image: Vincent Valdez – The Strangest Fruit Series, 2013 oil on canvas.
Paper Towns
Yeji Moon’s Paper Towns exhibition at Fremin Gallery, NY. The artist uses ordinary materials to create beautiful and complex collages that recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly changing world. Newspaper is ripped, twisted and pasted into three-dimensional compositions for her exhibit of Disney-esque castles that reminds us to embrace our childlike wonderment. Featured image: Bawana
A Brooklyn Gem
The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn presented by Saatchi Art, is back in-person featuring a curated selection of independent artists from all over the world. With a wide range of prices starting from as little as $150, there are many choices for first time buyers, seasoned buyers and gallery owners. The fair runs thru July… Continue reading A Brooklyn Gem
Rationalities
South African ceramic artist Katherine Glenday’s porcelain works explore the contrasts of organic textures on soft skin-like surfaces. These elegant and delicate pieces seem paper-light in appearance, almost as if they would float away and break in a light breeze defying the materiality of the porcelain. Glenday manages this by stretching the porcelain to its… Continue reading Rationalities
Between Either And Or
New York-based artist Tim Wilson’s solo exhibition Between Either and Or at Nathalie Karg Gallery, NY, presented works that embrace pre-modernist modes of painting of domestic interiors gleaned from television and film. Featured image:Stairway I, 2021 oil on paper mounted on linen stretched panel
Black and White
New York based artist Davide Balliano’s first solo exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery features an array of paintings and sculptures. He is known for his linear geometric black and white paintings in hypnotic patterns and monumental sculptures. Featured image: Untitled_0194, 2021 plaster, gesso and varnish on Belgian linen
Blind Tiger
Forrest Kirk: Blind Tiger exhibition at Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach showcased paintings that represent the findings of Kirk’s exhaustive research into the secret and obscured histories of Palm Beach. A predominantly Black settlement called The Styx, was part of Palm Beach in the late 19th century which included a network of speakeasies disguised as legal… Continue reading Blind Tiger
Frank Holliday – SEE/SAW
Frank Holliday developed a Neo-Abstract Expressionist style based on strong brushstrokes and heavy pouring and smearing. His works doesn’t overwhelm the viewer but allows you to drift with the colors and movement in the paintings to another place both relaxing and satisfying. The “SEE/SAW” exhibition by Mucciaccia Gallery, included 28 works showcasing Holliday’s use of… Continue reading Frank Holliday – SEE/SAW
Geometric Abstractionist
Warren Isensee’s geometric paintings in his recent exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery in NY has assorted shapes and colors that are both dazzling and alluring. The viewer is very nearly hypnotized with the oscillating and symmetrical patterns while the colors quietly soothe the senses. Featured image: Skin and Bones, 2020 oil on canvas
