How do you highlight what’s happening in photography now? AIPAD Photography Show in New York of course. As is customary, great photographers past and present were represented in the show by some of the finest galleries and dealers from around the world last month. Photography now in 2023 yielded new perspectives and interpretations from different… Continue reading Photography Now
Tag: Modern Art
Fine Art at The Photography Show
The Photography Show presented by AIPAD in New York that ended yesterday was a visual feast of creative works from some of the finest photographers worldwide. The Show was held at Center415 in midtown with 49 galleries from 9 countries and 23 cities, all members of the prestigious Association of Photography and Art Dealers known… Continue reading Fine Art at The Photography Show
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
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
Well
John Russell – Well, 2021 digital print on vinyl. Bridget Donahue Gallery, NY. “And all the Saved in paradiseCan look down on the Suffering Through the glass floor of heaven,As part of their rewardFor being virtuousIn their lives.And all the people in HellCan look upAnd see the Righteous looking down at themAnd laughing.” Vinyl print… Continue reading Well
Red and Black
Robert Motherwell – Red, Cut By Black, 1966/7 oil and acrylic on canvas. Sotheby’s, NY
Posing Modernity
The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University and the Musée d’Orsay partner to present “Posing Modernity: The Black Model From Manet and Matisse to Today”. This exhibition explores the representation of the black figure as central to the development of modern art. The New York exhibition focuses specifically on the black female figure and how they are… Continue reading Posing Modernity
Pitcher and a Bowl of Fruit
Pablo Picasso – Pitcher and a Bowl of Fruit (Pichet et coupe de fruits), 1931 oil on canvas. Guggenheim Museum, NY.
