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Tom Wesselmann Retrospective at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

May 3, 2016 Gail Pink Leave a comment

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Mitchell-Innes & Nash is currently hosting the first major painting retrospective of Tom Wesselmann in New York since the artist’s death in 2004. Organized in partnership with the Tom Wesselmann Estate, the exhibition examines Wesselmann’s role as the great innovator of the American Pop generation and includes a dozen significant works spanning the artist’s career from 1961-2004. Gallery owner Lucy Mitchell-Innes explains that with this exhibition, they hope to show how Wesselmann has filtered the canonical subjects of art — still life, the nude and the landscape — through a unique and personal lens using the media and technical innovation of the sixties, seventies and eighties, offering new possibilities for painting.
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Erik Jones, Twenty Sixteen at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

April 7, 2016 Gail Pink Leave a comment

Death From Above: The End Is Nigh (All Photos By Gail)

After a leisurely, scenic walk on the High Line, Geoffrey and I showed up fashionably late at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery for the opening reception of Erik Jones‘ new exhibit of collage paintings, Twenty Sixteen, which is the name of the year that we are in right now! By the time we got there, the place was really packed. Scroll down to see a photo of the hot crowd action! Continue reading Erik Jones, Twenty Sixteen at Jonathan LeVine Gallery →

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Jenny Morgan, All We Have is Now at Driscoll Babcock Galleries

May 21, 2015 Gail Pink 1 Comment

Driscoll Babcock Galleries is currently hosting a collection of very personal and provocative paintings by Jenny Morgan, entitled All We Have is Now. The artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, All We Have is Now is an investigation of darkly charged psychological works in intense hues. This new series of paintings present amorphous, yet graphically stark figures (Warning for the Prudish: Full Frontal Female Nudity) rendered in a richly saturated prismatic array of colors. Centered on themes of life, death, and rebirth, Morgan’s works question how we relate to our past and challenge us to live in the present. Continue reading Jenny Morgan, All We Have is Now at Driscoll Babcock Galleries →

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Ryan McGinness Figure Drawings at Pace Prints

May 8, 2014 Gail Pink 1 Comment

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Pace Prints is currently hosting Ryan McGinness: Figure Drawings, the artist’s second exhibition at the gallery. I can’t say I’m sorry that I missed the opening reception, because how could you possibly get good photos of these works in a gallery full of people?

Figure Drawings is a continuation of the McGinness’s Women series, which he started working on in 2010. Drawing directly from nude models, he approaches these drawings in the same manner in which he creates his signature undulating and layered icons.

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Single Fare 3 Metrocard Art Exhibit at RH Gallery

February 16, 2013 Gail Pink 2 Comments

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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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