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Stephen Romano Gallery Christens New Bushwick Location with Lexicon Infernali Group Show

September 10, 2015 rezpect 16 Comments

Barry William Hale, Pomba Gira Sigill Vinyl Wall Installation, 2015 (All Photos By Gail)

The only art gallery that consistently draws us from Manhattan all the way to Brooklyn, the Stephen Romano Gallery, has reopened at its new location in the heart of Bushwick, Brooklyn’s thriving local art scene — very exciting! The gallery’s inaugural group show, Lexicon Infernali, reunites many of the cutting-edge contemporary artists we’ve come to know and love from Romano’s always intriguing exhibits over the course of 2015, while offering up an assortment of welcome surprises.

Here are a few of our favorite pieces from the show!

Art By Hunter Stabler: L- Garmr (2015) , hand-cut paper mounted to plexiglass Edition of 3; R – Baba Yaga Misquotes The Face To Steeleye Span, laser-cut paper mounted to plexiglass, Edition of 24

2 Watercolor Triptychs by El Gato Chimney: Top – The Right Way; Bottom – The Good Proportion

Limor Gasko, Sheep Head

Elizabeth Shupe, The Great Weight of The Soul (Mixed Media)

Elizabeth Shupe Green Ophelia (2014), Laser-sintered Nylon 3D Print, with Mixed media in a plexiglass case

Green Ophelia Detail

Elizabeth Shupe, Beautiful Creature (1 of a Triptych)

Rob Bowen, Pink – Pollination

Caitlin McCormack, Long Stands a Rapture (Diptych) Crocheted Cotton String

Matthew Dutton, The White Owl Shaman

Art By Shawn Thornton: L – Brahmastra for A New Age (UFO/Time Machine); R – Black Pyramid Meditation

Brahmastra for A New Age (Detail)

Left: Photo By William Mortenson. Right: Art By Stephanie Lucas, Top- Equation de Plumes, Bottom – Welcome

Detail from Equation de Plumes

The Bride by Lori Field

Eric Richardson, Coronation

GiGi Chen, What She Sees (This Image Courtesy of Stephen Romano)

Art By David Molesky: L –Rusalka; R- Acteon

Stephen Roman Gallery is located at 177 Gartan Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, but the actual location is the corner of Harrison Place and Porter Avenue (don’t ask). Best train directions are to take the L to Morgan Ave, then walk three blocks east on Harrison to Porter and you can’t miss it. Go to This Link for a map.

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Abundantia Cornu Copiae at the Stephen Romano Gallery

December 10, 2014 rezpect 1 Comment

All Photos By Gail

The latest group exhibit at Stephen Romano Gallery is a true Cornucopia of artistic treasures! Abundantia Cornu Copiae features works by some of our favorites, including:

Shawn Thornton, Cecilia Avendaño, El Gato Chimney, Sas Christian, Aunia Kahn, Lori Field, Judith Scott, Erna Kd, Darcilio Lima, Joseph McVetty, C.T. McClusky, Hannah Faith Yata, Pulu Zhao, Teiji Hayama, Adam Miller, Charles Dellschau, Rithika Merchant, Jacob Böhme, Michael Anderson, Ray Robinson, Kalyana Thiru, Martin Ramirez, Joel Lorand, Dan Barry, Morton Bartlett, Tine Kindermann, Robert Bowen, Masae Shimoichi, Gigi Chen, Eric Richardson, William A. Blayney, Jana Brike, Steven Bradshaw and Martin Wittfooth.

Here are some of our favorite pieces from the show!

This gorgeous photographic composite Kaleidoscope print framed in a light box is by Kalyana Thiru, a Sri Lankan aritst who now lives locally in Dumbo.

Michael Anderson’s The Dark Knight Dyptich (Batman, above and The Joker, below) was created from torn and collaged subway posters. Several of the same poster are needed to make these. I love the effect he achieves by layering the images. It says so much about the nature of identity.

These Black and White Photos were taken by Nicholas Syracuse in the home of the late Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan! How crazy is that?

Kawaii Doll is a 3D Printed multicolor composite sculpture from German artist Eric Van Straaten.

Check out the amazing detail of this piece!

Lu Zhang’s Twins (a double image of the artist) offers her commentary on the one child policy in her homeland of China.

This folk art string instrument is a carved wood and metal One Man Band from Mississippi, (c 1920 – 30’s). Artist is Unknown.

This one is called Blissful Ignorance By Lori Field, an artist we are very happy to have discovered at the Gallery!

Martin Wittfooth’s Smoke Signals shows that he continues to be a cutting edge force in the contemporary art world.

The Hider By Robert Bowen: so great.

Two more fantastic pieces from the Hopi Dream series by artist Peca, a welcome staple of every Romano Gallery show.

Poseidon By Eric Richardson.

Hannah Faith Yata’s Black Mascara is one of my very favorite pieces from the show. She’s amazing!

Shawn Thornton’s Motherbrain Decoding the Psyconautical Device.

Abundantia Cornu Copiae will be on Exhibit through January 15th, 2015 at the Stephen Romano Gallery, Located at 111 Front Street, Suite 208, in DUMBO, Brooklyn NY. Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 12 Noon – 6:00 PM or by Appointment.

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Stephen Romano Gallery Presents In Missa Interfectionis

October 24, 2014 rezpect 6 Comments

Art By Colin Christian (All Photos By Gail)

What a great discovery it was to find out about the existence of the Stephen Romano Gallery when I went to one of their first group shows last June. Even though it is a teeny bit of a jaunt from Manhattan to DUMBO, going there gives me an excuse to visit a very cool neighborhood that is home to lots of amazing street art. I also appreciate that Stephen Romano has a keen talent for curating these Surreal, Dark Pop exhibits that harken back the early days of the Last Rites Gallery, and even incite feelings of nostalgia for the late, great Bold Hype Gallery. What a bummer that that place had to close.

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Mysterium Cosmographicum Group Show at Stephen Romano Gallery

June 9, 2014 rezpect 3 Comments

Six Space Paintings, Artist Unknown (All Photos By Gail)

Last Thursday, Stephen Romano Gallery lured me away from my familiar haunts in the Chelsea Gallery District all the way to DUMBO, Brooklyn for its new group exhibition, Mysterium Cosmographicum, featuring works from over 30 international artists on the theme of the artist’s relationship to the cosmos. Seriously, how could you stay away from that? I’d been invited to the opening reception by one of my favorite local artists, Eric Richardson (I am proud to own two of his paintings in my collection) but I was super excited once I got to the gallery to see both Colin Christian and Kris Kuksi, two other fantastic artists whose work I always like to support, participating in the show.

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Single Fare 3 Metrocard Art Exhibit at RH Gallery

February 16, 2013 rezpect 2 Comments

All Photos By Gail Except Where Noted

If you think that an artist would be creatively limited by being restricted to use of a canvas that’s only the size of a NYC Transit Metrocard, you’d be surprised! In an open call for artists, Single Fare 3 (the third in a series of semi-annual art exhibits whose only guideline is that the art must incorporate a Metrocard), Single Fare curators Jean-Pierre Roy and Michael Kagan were flooded with thousands of submissions for this year’s show at RH Gallery in Tribeca. The art ranges widely from classic portraiture, cartoons, sculpture, interactive pieces, famous people, pop culture references, Metrocards re-purposed as utilitarian objects, lots of nudes and even an old fashioned rotoscope device!

I was lucky to arrive early and be one of the first dozen people admitted to the gallery, when it looked like this:

But within half an hour the place looked more like this:

Photo by Cojo of ArtSucks.com

Here are photos of some of my favorite art from the show!

Click on any image to enlarge for detail.

These tiny paintings have the look of classic oil portraits.

Little Monsters!

A little Neon Bling!

Various Scenes from the film Titanic

Eddie Van Halen, Lemmy, Madonna

Characters from The Shining

3D Metrocard Sculptures

Metrocards Transformed Into Nightlights

One of Two Pieces in the Show by Eric Richardson

Kinetic Taxi Sculpture

A Year of ’70s Pin Up Calendar Pages

Flamingo

Ouija Board

Subway Train!

Shoes!

More Little Monsters!

Metrocard With Pink Yarn Fringe

See more great photos of the show at Art Sucks Dot Com!

Single Fare 3 is On Exhibit Only Through February 22nd at RH Gallery, Located at 137 Duane Street in Tribeca, NYC (Just East of West Broadway. Take the 2 or 3 Trains to Chambers Street and Walk Uptown Two Blocks). Hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11:00 AM –7:00 PM.

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