by Joseph A. Hazani March 9, 2018
The Walter Maciel Gallery exhibited Katherine Sherwood’s Interior of the Yelling Clinic which was an ensemble of her earlier art series’. The most striking of those was Venuses, a collection of inspirations from Manet’s Olympia, but more broadly the Venus motif in Western fine art. The textile weaving of the works on what appeared to be canvas was also intriguingly spotted with the....
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by Joseph A. Hazani February 8, 2018
Two weeks ago housed a terrific cornucopia of refined contemporary art. By refined, I connote the distillation of artistry through the filters of commercial fine art galleries. Commerce is often seen to be a necessary evil with its marriage to artistry. For worse, it can corrupt the aim of art, which is to imitate reality in order to transcend it to a higher plane than would otherwise be....
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by Joseph A. Hazani January 25, 2018
Future Feminine Art Review @ The Fahey/Klein Gallery The Fahey/Klein Gallery had a massive art party Saturday night which no doubt was assuaged by the conjointly held “Women’s March” the same day. The emphasis here was on photographic depictions of the feminine form, but most intriguing was the direction in which feminism was being directed. I can’t help but juxtapose this....
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