You want ravishing, I’ll give you ravishing. Metaphor Contemporary Art, nestled among the antique shops dotting Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, is exhibiting a stunning group of abstract paintings by Julie Evans. Ms. Evans juxtaposes delicately rendered ornamental motifs—a mandala-like circle is the linchpin of her pictorial vocabulary—against grainy runs of paint, setting in motion Read More
You’ve got to hand it to Zeuxis, the self-styled “association of still-life painters.” They’re a tenacious lot-not least because their ambitions are markedly out of fashion. In naming themselves after a painter who worked in Greece between the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., the group declares its fealty to values that reach beyond the contemporary. Read More
Still-Life Association Zeuxis
Communes With the Inanimate
You’ve got to hand it to Zeuxis, the self-styled “association of still-life painters.” They’re a tenacious lot-not least because their ambitions are markedly out of fashion. In naming themselves after a painter who worked in Greece between the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., the group declares its Read More
Is there an exhibition currently on display in New York City that is more beautiful than that dedicated to the collages of Anne Ryan (1889-1954) at Grant Selwyn Fine Art? The tempered answer is “probably”–there are a lot of shows out there. But the concluding reply is a resounding “no.” Indeed, it goes to the Read More
