Top panel: Charles White ”Five Great American Negroes” (1939) Oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY./ Leonor Fini’s “La Peinture et l”Architecture (1938-39) Oil on panel/ Lower left: Robert Gober *Untitled” (2000-2001) Willow, wood, beeswax, human hair, silver plated cast brass and pigment/ Center: Charles White “Headlines” (1944) Ink, gouache, and […]
Top left: Chair Transformations #25 Plastic flowers and wire coat hanger 39 ¾ x 29 3/8 x 24 ¼ in. / Top center: Chair Transformations #10A Melamine laminate, wood and wool 38 1/8 x 20 18 1/16 in. (1969-70) / Top right: Chair Transformations #20B, 1996Bottom left: Chair Transformations # 9 (1969-70)/ Bottom center: Chair […]
One afternoon while strolling e reprough the New York Historical Society, I happened upon the articulate work of Arthur Szyk (pronounced “shik”). To view his oeuvre is to descend deep into a time capsule set during World War II, the Holocaust and America of the Jim Crowe era. His illustrations, suffused with a blend of […]
“2018 Geoffrey Chadsey” Top Left: “Blue Faced Jimi, (2017) Watercolor pencil and crayon on mylar 73 x 42 x 1.8 in.Top center: “Double” (2017-18) Watercolor pencil and crayon on mylar 78 x 72 x 1/2 in. Top right: “Amstel (Buddy Movie)” Watercolor pencil, crayon and tape on mylar 57 5/8 x 25 in. (2017) Bottom […]
Top Left: Philip Pearlstein “Two Models with Eames Lounge Chair” Oil on Canvas, Betty Cunningham Gallery, NY / Top Center: Baron Von Fancy’s “You’re the French on My Toast” and Top Right: Clip from “Riverboat Song”, Jordan Wolfson, the David Zwirner Gallery, New York/ Bottom Left: Joe Mintner “Four Hundred Years of Free Labor”1995 Welded […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Lyrical. Sarcastic. Poetic. Instructional. Even laughable. Artists hold nothing back in the communications department. Call it “signage”, “captions”, “aphorisms”, “slogans” or “poetry”, artists simply cut to the chase. No extrapolations are needed nor the reading of tea leaves. Since the iconic cartoon strips of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in the 60’s to the […]
Lois Lane: “I mean, why are you here? There must be a reason for you to be here.” Superman: “Yes, I’m here to fight for truth and justice and the American way.” Public fascination with the forces of good and evil aren’t exclusive to Hollywood but has seeped into the realm of contemporary art. It’s […]
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Artists can be such a pensive bunch. Taking ourselves too seriously. I felt the need to unload and laugh a bit and so I searched for my contemporaries who illustrated a sense of humor. I discovered the quirky, the understated, the irreverent, the ecclesiastical – the what? – the downright facetious, and the hideously grotesque. […]
A.) ___Humble Cosmetic B.) ___ War paint ___C.) Deviant Oral Fix D.) ___ Accessory to a Crime E.) ___ All of the Above “There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip” – Aristotle Advertisers have a field day describing the erotic power of this sensual cosmetic. Consider, for instance, colors that “make statements”, […]
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