
Tag: painting
Tybee Island





Leaves, Paintings
Benny Andrews


Saturday before Christmas we went to see Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. These are very very powerful, strong images, created with paint on canvas and painted cloth and other materials (gesso?) that give them real depth. Well worth putting on a mask and making an appointment to go see.
From a Tropical space






Next stop on our gallery crawl was this powerful Titus Kaphar exhibit at Gagosian.
Click any image to see them all enlarged.
Frank Auerbach




Continuing west on 24th Street we came to the Luhring Augustine Gallery and these Frank Auerbach works (from 1978 – 2016). Really luscious impasto and a lovely autumnal palette of (mostly) muted shades.
Painting Party
Westcosastalagora
Syd Solomon’s Westcoastalscape (1968) as seen through Dominique LaBauvie‘s Agora (2016)
Men Apart
On the left of the wall, Antony Gormley‘s Apart X (2003); on the right, a man apart
Kwoma Ceiling
from the informational placard:
The Kwoma are a group of people living in the Washkuk Hills north of the Sepik River in northeastern New Guinea. Most Kwoma villages have, or had, one or two ceremonial houses, consisting of a rook reaching nearly to the ground and supported by posts and beams. These structures have no walls, and the sides are left open except when rituals are taking place inside. A finial (yaba), carved with images of supernatural beings, projects from each gable. The decoration of Kwoma ceremonial houses was formerly less extensive that it is today, but since the 1970s, the amount of ornamentation has increased. The supporting wood architectural elements are now carved and painted, and paintings typically cover about half the roof’s interior.
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