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Paper at Munch Gallery

mauri — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:09:50 +0000

Image courtesy of Munch Gallery

Featuring: Allan Bestle, Kaspar Bonnén, Rasmus Bregnhøi, Troels Carlsen, Jacob Dahlstrup, Cathrine Raben Davidsen, Christina Hamre, Jan S. Hansen, Ida Kvetny, Anika Lori, Frodo Mikkelsen, Mie Mørkebjerg, Dorte Naomi, Julie Nord, Fie Norsker, Lars Nørgård, Michael Rytz, Anne Sofie Sandal, Jakob Tolstrup, Kathrine Ærtebjerg

Paper
January 8 – February 2, 2014
Munch Gallery
245 Broome Street
New York City
munchgallery.com

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Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties

mauri — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:57:55 +0000

Claes Oldenburg is an artist without flamboyance or careful propriety. He is thus very American, and being American, it is not strange that he was born in 1929 outside of America, actually in Sweden. He should have explained in 1960 that, “I make my work out of everyday experiences, which I find as perplexing and extraordinary as can be.”

A viewer will not be surprised, therefore, to find among his art works store objects –a watch in case, cupcakes, socks, a hanging dress, and a hamburger. Ah, America; objects, objects, objects, in (of course) streets and stores. Oldenburg wrote, “I turned my vision down, the paper became a metaphor for the pavement, its walls were gutters and fences. I drew the materials found on the street –including the human. A person on the street is more of the street than he is a human.”

The drawing at that time takes on an ugliness which is a mimicry of the scrawls and patterns of street graffiti. It celebrates irrationality, disconnection, violence and stunted expression – the damaged life forces of the city street. Pop, therefore, is everywhere – enlarged, enlarged, enlarged. But there always seems to be questions in Oldenburg’s work. He looks and observes chiefly with an ironic twist. Perhaps it is because, as he wrote, “The artist is communicator, and from experience he knows how difficult it is to communicate the pure senses of being alive.”

By Harriet Zinnes

The exhibition remains at MoMA until August 5, 2013.

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Commission Free: The work of Ewa Banas

mauri — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:12:18 +0000

Ewa Banas, Irises, 2013. Pastel on paper, 37 x 24.5 in. Minimum bid: $3500

For a limited time only!

Two of Long Island artist Ewa Banas‘ works are available for purchase through Broadway Gallery. Ewa is a self taught artist whose dedication to her craft has been delicately cultivated through countless hours spent painting and drawing on site, en plein air. These two beautiful works are among her largest and most attractive compositions to date, and are being offered fully framed and ready to be hung immediately. Please email editor.nyarts@gmail.com to place your bid.

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