July - 2017

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Vargas-Suarez Universal Vector Lab X (2017) oil enamel and oil on canvas 80x68 inches (203x172 cm) $28,000 USD Vargas-Suarez Universal’s “Vector Lab X” is a quintessential work revealing the processes of drawing and painting inspired by science. Strong energy emanates from the painting and is remarkably felt. Not surprising, since it was inspired by a visit to a Spallation Neutron Source, Tennessee based Laboratory* where neutron blasts are constantly experimented with. V-SU

Review: 'Translucent' at McKenzie Fine Art

Currently on show at McKenzie Fine Art, New York through August 12, 2017 McKenzie Fine Art summer group show, “Translucent” features works by Andrea Belag, Michelle Benoit, Freddy Chandra, Christopher Dunlap, James Lecce, Shane McAdams, Doreen McCarthy, Maureen McQuillan, Shari Mendelson, Pipo Nguyen-duy, Erin O’Keefe, Fran O’Neill, Rob de Oude, Gary Petersen, Don Voisine, and Laura Sharp Wilson. The artist's mediums range from painting, sculpture, glass sculpture to photogra

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Giles Lyon Red Gloaming, 2012 Acrylic on paper 30 x 22 inches $3,500 2012 was a precarious year for many with the uncertainty of a fulfilled prophecy that would change the world for the better or for the worse. It was in that year that Giles Lyon created “Red Gloaming,” as part of series of intimate, introspective, dreamy “psychoscapes,” which were unreal images that contained all the devils and demons in an omnipresent stance veering upon the viewer, as if laughing. His cav

Rico Gatson: Icons

Currently on show at The Studio Museum in Harlem, through August 27, 2017 In his latest solo show “Icons,” Rico Gatson explores the long lasting influence of 1960’s and 70’s Black artists, musicians, politicians, and activists on Black cultural and political consciousness. Each image in the collection contains a photographic portrait found and repurposed by the artist. Depicted are many big figures – among them Thelonious Monk, Angela Davis, James Baldwin, Marvin Gaye, John

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Alexander Ross Branching Dots, 2017 crayon, watercolor, graphite, color pencil on paper 24 x 18 inches $ 7,000 Alex Ross’s “Branching Dots,” is a unique recent drawing celebrating the tree. With cartoonish aspects and a gestural “tree” front and center on the paper, it bears fruit, ripened with cherry color reds. The light tonalities of the body of the tree, outlined with various hues of greens and blues, change as the branches grow upward and outward. The background of blue