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Lubaina Himid- Street Sellers at Greene Naftali

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Melissa Stern Lubaina Himid- Street Sellers at Greene Naftali Posture Master- 2023. Acrylic on canvas. 96 x 72 Rarely has there been a group of people as uniformly elegant and graceful as those who … Continue reading

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The Golden Thread – BravinLee Offsite at The Seaport

published in Art Spiel on May 2, 2024   Christopher Myers Ghezo’s Throne, 2021 Appliqué textile, 72 x 48 inches BravinLee Projects has just launched an audacious, big, and bold exhibition of 60 contemporary artists working in textile or textile-related … Continue reading

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Man Bites Dog Bites Man

published in Art Spiel on Jan. 29, 2024   John O’Connor at L’Space presented in conjunction with Pierogi Gallery Noahbot-colored pencil and graphite on paper. 83 x 69.5. 2013. Photo courtesy of John Berens There is an astonishing amount of … Continue reading

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Stéphane Mandelbaum at The Drawing Center

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Melissa Stern   Ernst Röhm, 1981, Graphite, gouache, marker, and color pencil on paper. 54 3/4 x 47 1/4 inches Who was Stephane Mandelbaum? A closeted gay man? The child of Holocaust survivors? A … Continue reading

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A Stage Within a Stage- Ye Qin Zhu at Dimin

Published on ArtSpiel.org, Oct. 8, 2023. A Stage Within a Stage-mixed media on eight fitted panels. 5 x 27 feet. 2022-2023 There’s a riot going on. That’s what I thought as I stood in front of Ye Qin Zhu’s large-scale … Continue reading

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Here Now: Contemporary Photographers of the Hudson Valley

Published August 30, 2023 by Melissa Stern on Artspiel Phyllis Galembo  Photographer, Carnival Mexico. Fujiflex print. 30 x 30 2017. The Kleinart James Center in Woodstock, New York, is currently presenting a very ambitious and interesting photography exhibition. Entitled Here … Continue reading

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A Garden Grows in the Meatpacking District

Specimens.- 2018. 287 pieces of wood with powdered graphite, 42” x 35” x 6” approx. Posted on July 25, 2023 by Melissa Stern Sculptor Loren Eiferman has brought a veritable garden of strange to Ivy Brown Gallery this summer. Her … Continue reading

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Just say YES to NADA!

Posted on Artspiel, May 20, 2023 by Melissa Stern Paul Wackers- First Time, Long Time. Jack Hanley Gallery I’ve been to more art fairs than I can count, but the ones that I’ve had fun at I could count on … Continue reading

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Ulf Puder at Marc Straus Gallery

Posted on January 30, 2023 on ArtSpiel Taormina, Oil on canvas,39.4 x 47.25, 2018 Marc Straus Gallery is currently presenting the paintings of Ulf Puder, a German artist whose landscape paintings are deeply evocative and strangely alluring. I was not … Continue reading

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RADIANCE: THEY DREAM IN COLOR. THE UGANDA PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

  Posted on December 1, 2022 by Melissa Stern in ArtSpiel Install photo of Radiance: They Dream in Color The Venice Biennale, a sprawling art Universe, takes over the city every other year alternating its focus between art and architecture. … Continue reading

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