For over 30 years, the drawings and was paintings of Lily Van Der Stocker (b. 1954) have subverted aesthetic expectations, employing an Easter candy color palette to depict clouds, flowers, swirls, and other traditionally feminine or decorative motifs. She annotates these compositions with handwritten texts – spelling out intimate thoughts, notes-to-self, and social niceties. The work is nostalgic and comforting, with squiggly patterns more likely at home in the margins of a student’s notebook than they are on the white walls of a gallery.
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Pink Thing of The Day: Old Tree By Pamela Rosenkranz
OMG, at last the High Line Plinth has removed that hideous and tone-deaf Drone installation and replaced it with this gorgeous Pink Tree! I can’t stop squealing. While the tree looks red when photographed at certain angles, it is painted in shades of bright red and pink, and looks more pink in person. Let’s take a closer look.
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Paola Pivi’s You Know Who I Am On The High Line
Paola Pivi’s interdisciplinary artistic practice combines the familiar with the bizarre. The artist shifts viewer’s expectations of rules, categories and boundaries; her parallel universes encourage us to recognize divisions we take for granted. You Know Who I Am (2022) is a cast bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty wearing cartoonish masks – stylized portraits of individuals whose personal experiences of freedom are directly connected to the United States. The masks change every two months, representing different people over the course of the exhibition. Continue reading Paola Pivi’s You Know Who I Am On The High Line
Retainer By Hannah Levy on The High Line
I must admit that I had a good laugh when I passed this very familiar-looking sculpture while walking on the High Line recently. Maybe you have a similar dental Retainer (albeit on a much smaller scale) in your medicine cabinet right now. I know I do.
Jill Mulleady’s We Wither Time into a Coil of Fright at The High Line
In We Wither Time into a Coil of Fright, artist Jill Mulleady (b. 1989, Montevideo, Uruguay) portrays a surreal landscape populated by multiple figures. Though the individuals are clustered close to one another by the riverbank, they appear disconnected — even self absorbed.
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