NYC love

nina chanel NYC love, High Line w 22nd 

 

unsupervised

refik anadol, at MoMA

 

Peace

at the Jacob Lawrence exhibit, The American Struggle, this vibrant jewel simply entitled Peace stood out to me....

the series demands the viewer's attention to both paintings and accompanying text and given social distancing protocols, requires time and patience to view but is well worth taking in, slowly walking around the room, and then perhaps again, quietly, deliberately, in rhythm with the bold tempera brushstrokes applied by Lawrence to his 30 small masterpieces that lead us through critical moments in our nation's early history as interpreted through the eye of the confident, caring artist...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/arts/design/jacob-lawrence-metropolitan-museum.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/these-missing-jacob-lawrence-paintings-are-finally-in-a-museum--and-theyre-masterpieces/2020/01/23/aec3ffa2-3d21-11ea-b90d-5652806c3b3a_story.html

 

the heart of the matter

discovering amy sherald's solo show at hauser & wirth gallery, through october 26th....

precious jewels by the sea, oil on canvas, amy sherald, hauser & wirth gallery....

https://www.vogue.com/article/amy-sherald-new-york-debut-vogue-august-2019-issue

Labor Day love

Surely a summer highlight was attending the opening night for artist and friend Gabrielle Lundy whose textile collage was shown at Chelsea's Viridian Artists juried exhibition in mid-July.  She flew in from Seattle to participate in the show upon learning her work had been included. 

Changing Hands, Stitching Stories is crafted from multiple up-cycled fabrics collected by the artist and mounted on an old picket fence.   

Gay has been creating textile collage and mixed media assemblage for over three decades now in spite of being diagnosed with severe rheumatoid arthritis.  

A self-taught contemporary maker who has lived all over the world, she celebrates everyday materials through exuberant color and design.

Labor Day love goes to this true labor of love! 

Changing Hands, Stitching Stories, Gabrielle Lundy
(photos by me)
up-cycled cotton, linen, polyester, velvet, suede mounted on old picket fence....

for more about Gay Lundy and her work, visit
www.gabriellelundystuio.com 

love who you are

sending love to my best friend, who teaches us every day that kindness is the way! 

happy birthday, Jennie, always present, always beautiful!  xoxo 

Shantell Martin, Who are You,  New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center, February...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrynking/2019/02/26/how-new-york-city-ballet-attracts-a-wider-audience-with-vibrant-art/#7b2720cf1208

Brick House

https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/simoneleigh/

room for a robe

at the Whitney Biennial, a preoccupation with the peplum ....

Diane Simpson, Robe...
Whitney Biennial 

at the photography show

photographer tony vaccaro, monroe gallery booth,
AIPAD, Pier 94 last week...

on a clear day

you can catch a glimpse of pop artist Ashley Longshore on the terrace at The Whitney...

ashley longshore
#warholxwhitney

when you are walking to the subway...

and behold the biggest mural in nyc!!

city as school.... 
https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/new-york/largest-mural-nyc
@wearecityas

@magdaloveart
@kobrastreetart
@lisageronimo
@mariakrajewski 

fossils, and folk art

in college, i defected from geology and fared better in astronomy to meet my science requirement.

if only i had seen it all through the eyes of Orra White Hitchcock!  how divine! 

" ... in nature there is wisdom, system, and consistency. ... the result, therefore, of our enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end."  James Hutton, Theory of the Earth, 1785. 

why may we not add geology to the list of poetical sciences? 

american museum of folk art
https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/charting-divine-plan-art-orra-white-hitchcock-1796-1863/