Opening Thursday Dec. 1 and going through Dec 21 is a remarkable show I am delighted to be a part of. Being American (at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 W.26 St. 15th fl. NYC) has been conceived and mounted by the staff led by curator Francis Di Tommaso:
“The twenty artists in this show have twenty stories to tell about the experience of being American today. Though many would not normally exhibit in the same venue-the work of some is almost never seen outside of the printed page-they all have immediately accessible and also exquisitely nuanced commentaries to make on American culture.”
I am very honored to be a part of this wide review of visual commentary on American life, and very grateful to Francis and the gallery for putting so high a value on art done as journalism. This field is also represented by work by Christoph Neimann, Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss.
Reception: Thursday, December 1, 6-8pm
Here are a couple of my pieces in the show:
This Lincoln was done in Crayola on camera for “Picturing America” on PBS.
Paul Krugman, locked out of Obama’s party with the 1%. Three years on, who had it right!!??? For Newsweek (remember Newsweek?).
Samuel Alito’s hearings at the US Senate made a jurist out of a tool of the Right and monkey of the process and the Senate. No biggie. For The New Yorker.
Here are pieces by my partners for the exhibition:
Artist: Type A
Trigger (LSAR-5), 2011
four-color offset print
35 x 23 inches
Robert Priseman
Hanging Chamber, 2008
Oil on linen
60 x 60 inches
Christoph Niemann
SOS, 2011
Ink and digital
Publication: New Yorker
In Lament of the Images, 2009
Dustin Grella
Bob Giraldi
The Routine, 2005
Lightjet print on Fujiflex Supergloss mounted on Dibond
Reinier Gerritsen
Andrea Gennari
Tramonto Senza Vento (Sunset Without Wind), 2008
oil on canvas
17 x 29 inches
