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.
