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This strange Wardrobe from 1939 was born of an art movement rather than an interest in the complexities of furniture design. Eugene Berman (1899 – 1972) was a Russian painter and stage designer who associated with the Surrealists.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Tromp L’oeil Painted Wardrobe By Eugene Berman
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One thing leads to another, as they say. I was actually in the middle of an urban Art Safari for this project when I looked west across Chrystie Street and saw something that looked very familiar to me. Continue reading Os Gemeos with JR Collaborative Mural on Chrystie Street
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If you stroll all the way to south end of the High Line to where the park terminates at Gansevoort Street in the meatpacking district, you may look across and consider that someone has blasted a passageway right through the building. But, that is an illusion. Continue reading 95 Horatio Street By Do Ho Suh
Filtration – Opposing to Red (All Photos By Gail)
We were very sad to learn of the passing of groundbreaking painter and Op Art pioneer, Julian Stanczak on March 25th of this year. He had good, long life! As a last hurrah, Mitchell-Innes & Nash is currently hosting The Life of the Surface, Paintings, 1970 – 1975, an exhibition of Stanczak’s paintings exclusively from the years 1970 to 1975. This long-planned exhibition is Mitchell-Innes & Nash’s second solo exhibition with the artist, and the first since his recent passing.
Sarah Joncas Otherworldly (All Photos By Gail)
Last Rites Gallery is currently hosting Transfigure, a group exhibition featuring new paintings by Sarah Joncas (whose work we first saw at Last Rites way back in 2011), along with Alex Garant, and husband and wife collaborative duo Kit King and Corey Popp, known creatively as Oda & King. This is a fresh group of artists that are bringing something cool and dark to contemporary portraiture.
Continue reading Last Rites Gallery Presents Transfigure Group Show