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I’m sitting here near the Manhattan Bridge at the LISA salon listening to an amazing group of Digital and Electronic Artists doing special presentations of their work.
The Incredible Painting Machine by Anton is next, who made massive paintings using robotics, but without computers – kinda amazing!
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It’s magical sitting here at dusk – after a long day that included Providence RI in the morning and McGraw Hill in the afternoon, as my publishers for Social Media Analytics.
There are 3 other artists I’m going to view tonight.I’ll hear from Alexis Tryon, Anton Perich, Jeff Snyder and Carl Skelton (see details below)
Just attended a gallery opening for someone I knew in the past, Peter Reginato (studied with him at Vermont Studio School, as in was then called, in Jonston, VT in 1987)
Peter Reginato at Heidi Cho Gallery
23 street: 522 W 23 street, 6-8pm, comment
In a way Peter’s sculptures remind me of my own work – he gives into his impulses to be spontaneous with color changes and makes it work.
It reminds me that people are best when they are allowed to be themselves – or when they can find a way to make a living doing what they love.
Go see Peter Reginato at Heidi Cho Gallery
23 street: 522 W 23 street.
Superb show of Marc Handelman – he’s won me over with “Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad” at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, tonight.
Sure, the paintings are “safe” but there is some of the finest work I’ve seen in the NYC art scene for a while – very articulate and he has totally mastered his technique.
I’d go see Marc Handelman’s “Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad” at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
22 street: 530 W 22 street – again, masterful work, and the variety is amazing.
Strictly speaking, two other artists are having openings here as well, Bd to be honest with you, I like them all, including Elizabeth Neal.
Barbara Takenaga, Darren Waterston, Jane Wilson, Mark Innerst, Pat Lipsky, Whitfield Lovell “Never the Same Twice” at DC Moore
22 street: 535 West 22nd st, 2, 6-8pm, comment
As hard as it is to write, after a long hiatus, here I am, back from Zurich, Davos, Zurich, London, Brighton, London, Norway, London and back to New York and an opening at The Cell, at West 23rd street.
Aside from a different crowd than usual, and it being a week of Art Fairs running in NYC, it’s a decent if unexciting art opening here of some partial body portraits.
And having said that, perhaps nothing is accidental, even the thoughts I had while walking here to attend this opening.
While passing by another gallery I saw several good drawings and wondered if we all tend to ask the wrong questions about art. In fact, if we started with the idea all artwork is good, but done is exceptional, it would explain much, including this show.
A cold breezy December night found me over @ Clic Gallery here in Soho, for an opening oh Mark Abreit, George Holz and Just Loomis photos of unclad woman which has a packed house tonight.
The naked woman … Well, what can I say, I enjoy the show as much as the next person, or maybe more, as I can imagine what it feels like to be in the picture, that comes from the imagination of an artist.
No point taking photos …. Of the photos, can’t day that’d add anything, but if they were my photos, I’d be proud of them.
Yet it was the show of rope drawings next door that are much more interesting because they are by Philippe Petit and are masterful – some of the best modern drawings i’ve seen.
Weird thing is when you get close to the drawings they actually look better.
And they have inscriptions next to each rope, maybe they are all knots – and maybe I don’t really care why he drew them.
I attended an opening for “Valetudo: Art and Healing in Provence” at SVA tonight; the sanitarium at St. Remy is familiar to many as the place where Van Gogh painted for one year before committing suicide.
Artist: Jocelyne Gonzalez
The artists are patients in the Sanitarium of St. Remy now, or recently, and parts of the Sanitarium are much the same as when Van Gogh lived and painted there.
Here’s more information about the show which is only up for another 5 days:
The MPS Art Therapy Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents ?Valetudo: Art and Healing in Provence,? an exhibition of works made by psychiatric patients at the Maison de Santé Saint-Paul in the famed southern French town of Saint-Rémy. Curated by Dr. Jean-Marc Boulon, chief psychiatrist, along with Laurence Minard-Amalou, a private licensed tour guide in Provence.
Saint-Rémy has near-mythical status among artists and art historians as the place where Vincent Van Gogh spent a highly productive year from 1889 – 90 following his voluntary internment at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole mental hospital. It is here that the artist made renowned paintings like Irises and The Starry Night, just two of more than 150 paintings produced during his stay.
There was an excellent film that showed the history of St. Remy and I wish that I found a copy of it to embed here – instead, I’ll put something that might be seen as a tad more entertaining – Lust for Life – the original one with Kirk Douglass and Antony Quinn – you know the one.
By the way, the paintings I saw tonight were pretty good and it made me wonder.
Why is it that Art is often associated with a form of madness or deviant behavior? A couple of answers popped into my mind.
One possibility is the sameness and predictability of our lives is the antithesis of Art, that we only come to Art by bypassing the normal and expected (because it’s boring, even if it’s safe and predictable, which we often need to live a normal life). A form of madness might the the way into seeing things differently – and then again, the patients at St. Remy in Provence are considered mentally ill or insane, so maybe, under those circumstances, and with the wonderful surroundings – it’s not hard to see why interesting and very good work is done.
It’s also the Art Therapy part (at one time in my life I wanted to be an Art Therapist – but it was a road not taken).
Finally there’s the paintings of the inmates, some of those look very strongly influenced by Van Gogh’s own paintings . In fact, it’s not hard to see why that would be as we can not think of Provence and St. Remy or Aix en Provence but through the eyes of the Artists who painted and loved the places; in St. Remy we see Van Gogh and his Irises and wavy trees, etc. In Mt. Saint Victoire we see Cezanne’s depictions in our minds because they created realities that we still experience today.
However, what if what inmates at St. Remy see is not so much Van Gogh’s ghost (his vision overpowering reality) as the reality of St. Remy itself inspiring Van Gogh to paint as he did and for Cezanne to paint Saint Victoire as he did.
In that case, the mentally ill inmates of St. Remy might just be painting reality after all.
I arrived after these photos were taken but was the last guest to leave the opening and I found the idea that a road could be built under the conditions that were shown in the show almost unbelievable.
Exhibition description
?Journey to the Pole of Cold in ?On the Road of Bones: Ghosts of the Siberian Gulag Along the Old Kolyma Highway,? an exhibition at Kris Waldherr Art and Words studio gallery in Brooklyn. Through photography and mixed media, ?On the Roadof Bones? reveals the secret history and hidden landscape of Kolyma, formerly the land of Soviet labor camps and the coldest inhabited region on earth. Stunning new works by young native Siberian photographers Bolot Bochkarev, Nastya Borisova, and Ajar Varlamov trace the remains of the vast highway built across the taiga, tundra, and permafrost of North Asia by Stalin?s prisoners. The exhibition juxtaposes the tragic events of the past with the powerful natural beauty of the frozen land and the daily lives of north
The show was done very well, totally professionally, and even though the gallery is sorta out of the way (take the D train to Newkirk Avenue in Brooklyn, gallery is right around the corner literally) it’s worth the trek – and it’s not nearly as far to go as Siberia (which is farther than I’d want to go).
I’ll have several more updates to ArtNewYorkCity.com shortly – I’ve been negligent in my Art Postings – I’ll try to make up for it with a lot more content – I go to so many openings but often when I get home, I’m too toasted to really write anything – and I’m one of the those writers that tends to want to write my ideas and impressions down immediately, or not at all.
Marc Chagall
Chema Madoz
José Saborit
