Simatos’ work is a time capsule of celebrities, royalty, and the haute bourgeoisie of an era spanning from the 1920s to the 1960s. But the big surprise is that he was also an itinerant transatlantic painter who met many of his sitters on a luxury cruise ship line as staff artist. That makes...
Iria was the first Finnish woman pioneer of abstract painting in America. Prolific but reclusive, her bold abstract paintings are a uniquely vibrant cultural fusion of Finland and America. Her loft in SoHo became a virtual time capsule preserving five decades of paintings.
The extraordinary discovery of this hidden gem in the history of American Art and will soon be revealed. For more than 70 years, in a studio surrounded by 8,000 art books, the singular focus of this master’s unparalleled approach to figurative expressionism was The Passion.
During the 1980s he invented sculpture-as-graffiti and was a driving force in the Rivington School. He bolted his welded sculptures to the city’s signposts — calling them “outstallations.” The title of one says it all: “I’m No Gallery Whore.” His recent paintings — AbEx Graffiti —...
An epiphany led him to discard his career, become wholly dedicated to painting, and succeed in creating a new technique and style of pure pouring. Some paintings drive toward the sublime as sacred shafts of light. Others emit the hallucinatory energy of his inner mind.
In Quirt’s first solo at Julien Levy, in 1936, he was presented as the gallery’s first “radical painter.” He became one of the most influential painters in NYC during the WWII era, with 7 shows at the Whitney and 6 at MoMA. Forgotten after his death in 1968 — but now rediscovered....
Forte’s collages, assemblages, and bookworks have been exhibited widely, beginning in San Francisco 1970s–80s, and continuing in the Northeast since the 1990s. His art and series of compelling essays on the nature and importance of creative freedom are presented here.
He was only 22 when he became an expatriate, and found the unspoiled island of Paros in the middle of the Aegean Sea. There he developed an extraordinary approach to painting, fragmenting space as he captured his environment with a 360° view, as if he were painting in the 4th dimension.
This master of the energy of tension created wrappings that are unique in American art — from the famous Washington Square Arch to his extensive body of paintings.
