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Mama in Fall by Nathaniel Mary Quinn Black charcoal, gouache, soft pastel, oil pastel on coventry vellum paper 20 x 20 inches Solo exhibition, Half Gallery, New York, (5/2/17) [h/t]

Aurel Schmidt at Half Gallery.

Weekend in pics!

In the fall of 1983, a new gallery Spiritual America opened at 5 Rivington Street to little fanfare. Their inauguration featured Richard Prince's now-iconic image of a young Brooke Shields. The third exhibition was a group show, Pop, including Jeff Koons, Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman. In between these two projects, Peter Nadin hung a series of fruit paintings, Still Life, which half gallery is pleased to be re-presenting. The pictures from 1979-1983 vary wildly in their style (some impasto, some surrealist, some incorporating text) and follow an apostolic succession – in the secular sense – dating back to de Chirico, Picasso, Cézanne, Caravaggio and countless masters before them. Nadin cites William Blake's Nobodaddy and Lewis Carroll's Boojum snark as the closest articulation of what he was experiencing then, both personally and creatively. In retrospect, Nadin views the chronology of his still life paintings as a reflection of his psychological regression at the time. What began as a polite set of interiors, literally flew out the window, crashing into the landscape and ultimately commingling with language from his poetry. Tanam Press published a compilation of his Still Life poems in conjunction with the December 1983 show. More recently, Peter Nadin has exhibited at Gavin Brown's enterprise, Family Business and The Horticultural Society of New York.

I find this artist so awesome. She's Irish, her name is Genieve Figgis, you can find her on Twitter and IG, please check her out. I've read a comment defining her work Arbus-esque, and there's actually this feeling of distortion, but I also see Toulouse Lautrec, and some Disney's oldies cartoon style, like the one seen in the Aristocats. I love her, I hope she won't find disrespectful this parallel 😊😳. Here are the titles of these works (her titles are also amazing): 1. Family 2. Happy Halloween 3. Some Guests 4. Piano Lessons 5. On The Hunt 6. Carriage 7. On The Other Side kronoskingofthemonkeypeople I have the feeling you would like her.

“The Swing After Fragonard”

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