painting – Page 3

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An abandoned restaurant hosting the work of a local artist.

But the highlight of the Chelsea gallery crawl has to have been seeing, for the first time, the brilliant work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Jack Shainman Gallery, In Lieu of a Louder Love. I can’t recommend this more highly. Unfortunately, it closed on the 16th, the day we were there, but if you can get to see her work somewhere, run, don’t walk. Here are just a couple of examples and the photographs don’t begin to do justice to the quality of the painting, the texture and the depth of feeling.

Jack Shainman Gallery, West 20th Street, New York

Art Center

Upper East Side, New York

My mother’s selection of oils at her painting class’ annual exhibition. Click any painting to see them all enlarged. And see her web-site here.

Picture Shelf

The weather remains frigid here (as through most of the rest of the country) and I’ve been cowering indoors. so I’ve started taking still lifes around the apartment. Let’s hope they’re not too boring and pedestrian.

Ecriture: Black and White

Across the street from Gagosian, at the Tina Kim Gallery, Park Seo-Bo had a series of interesting Black and White (and Grey) paintings. There were no prices on any of the items or in the catalog. I asked the receptionist if they were prohibitively expensive but she didn’t know. She said she’d have to get in touch with her sales team. I took that as a sign and left

Charm City

Two Types of Canvas

Urbanimal

Hostile Posterior

Gynophobic comment? Scaffolding around the construction site in front of the Art Students League has wooden panels on it with paintings on them. This is a black and white painting and I can’t tell if the “hostile” graffito is part of the artist’s conception or has been added by another – and what is hostile about this person’s backside?