Hannelore Baron: Collages
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 100 11th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesTo download the online exhibition catalogue, click here. “Everything I’ve done is a statement on the, as they say, human condition, and so on. The way other people marched to Washington, or set themselves on fire, or write protest letters, or go to assassinate someone, well I’ve had all the same feelings that these people have […]
Facing Self: The Artist Revealed
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 100 11th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesTo view the online exhibition, click here.“I felt that if the themes in my early paintings, those very specific psychological concerns, were as significant as I thought they were, then I had a rationale for figurative painting. That was a time when a figure painter needed a justification for not doing Abstract Expressionism... Abstraction symbolized […]
Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 100 11th Ave, New York, NY, United States"I start out, I make a mess… I have to throw myself off so I don't copy what is right on top of my mind. Because if I just draw out or paint on something, I'm just copying what's in my mind. I'm trying to get deeper than that into my unconscious… I start out […]
Paper Power
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 100 11th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesCut, Crumpled, Drawn, Torn, Glued, Layered, Painted, Folded, Saturated, Creased, Stained, Dyed, Scratched, Erased, Scrubbed, Printed, Stamped, Peeled... Exploring the Materiality of Paper
Globalism Pops BACK Into View: The Rise of Abstract Expressionism
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 100 11th Ave, New York, NY, United States“Now that America is recognized as the center where art and artists of all the world must meet, it is time for us to accept cultural values on a truly global plane.” —Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, New York, 1940 “All genuine art forms utilize images that can be readily apprehended by anyone acquainted […]