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It’s so rare these days that I’m introduced to a new pop artist whose work I feel like I get right away, but that was the case when I got an invitation to view Venezuelan-American artist Pedro Baez’s recent solo exhibition, The Indivisible Atomo at LUME Studios. The pop-surrealist’s new collection comprises his largest and most refined paintings to-date, and reveals Baez as an artist creating his own lane of pop-surrealism across a variety of mediums ranging from painting, sculpture, digital drawing, and 3D animation, all of which were on view at this fun pop-up show! Let’s take a look.
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If you’ve seen the 1987 horror movie Hellraiser, you probably remember the Butterball Cenobite: one of the minor demon characters charged with dragging people to Hell. If you can’t conjure an image of his likeness from memory, he looked like this: Please Click Me. To me, the wildly surreal portraits comprising Christian Rex Van Minnen’s recent exhibit, Coniuncto look like they could be Butterball’s contemporary relatives, albeit with tattoos and jewel-toned gummy candies hovering over their mutant visages. At the very least, this series of paintings encourages wildly imaginative extrapolation, and that’s what good art is all about!
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All mittens were present and accounted for as art fans braved15 degree NYC weather for Jonathan LeVine’s annual Winter group show. It was definitely worth leaving the house for.
Octopus Chandeliers by Adam Wallacavage
As the show’s cheeky press release explains, “The Lost Mitten Society presents a visually diverse mix of emerging and established artists, all suffering from the loss of a mitten. Despite their frozen appendages, this group of over twenty artists have created small to medium sized, multi-disciplinary works, including a strong selection of drawing, painting and sculpture. In the name of solidarity, The Lost Mitten Society [is]displayed salon-style in the gallery to showcase the group’s goal of reuniting lost pairs of mittens everywhere. Continue reading Lost Mitten Society Annual Winter Salon Show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery →
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