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When the film Who Does She Think She Is? from 1975 summarized the life and art of Rosalyn Drexler, the fame of the “most well-rounded talent in town” was ebbing. But, for a brief moment in the 60s, she was celebrated as a Pop painter, a novelist and an avant-garde playwright—the “queen of the underground.” […]

It is a curious thing we ugly Americans do: we are infatuated with a meta-world of fictional animals to replicate our social order, manifest our ids and superegos, our social rites and character flaws, and enact our moral lessons. The peculiar and unprecedented intimacy of the human psyche with anthropomorphized animals saw its flowering in […]

Clifford Faust is a master of color, filling his cut paper collages with brazen, unabashed flashes of vibrant primary colors of every hue. His newest works, many of which were put on display at his Broadway Gallery solo show, “Collage and the City,” this spring, are no exception. In these pieces, Faust mingles his characteristic […]

Broadway Gallery’s resident curator, Tchera Niyego, is not a timid creature. Her passionate ideas lend color to a room, spark energy into a conversation and juxtapose artists in almost adventurous ways. In her 16th curated show, Niyego presents “Dreamy Techniques.” With such a title, one might feel light petals from freshly shaken flora as you […]

Entering the Anderson Gallery to view Gerald Donato’s show, “Reinventing the Game,” I realized that, even though I have known him for six or seven years, I had not seen much of his work. Thus, I came to this show with an undisturbed palette. As I walked from room to room, I was continually blown […]

Upon stepping foot into the NY Arts Beijing Space during artist Olle Jonsson’s solo show at the work-in-progress space/studio this spring, the artists’ “Bock Pet” series immediately catches the attention—if not for the bronze series’ monumentality, then for the adept craftsmanship and intricate mythological basis for the five sculptural works. This masterful accomplishment in scrap […]

Armenian-born, Los-Angeles-based artist Vera Arutyunyan combines primary colors and an aggressive brushstroke style toward a decidedly contemporary version of Abstract Expressionism. Although the masters of the 50s like Pollock and de Kooning created a similar aesthetic 40 years prior, Vera’s emotionally charged paintings appear forever in the moment. The artist’s vigorous and defined brushstrokes are […]

Desde que Tarzán entrara en Nueva York a lomos de un elefante, nadie más se había atrevido a hacerlo. Carles Albert Casanova (Valencia, 1949) lo hace ahora en la Broadway Gallery a través de ColorElefante, la sala que regenta en Valencia (España). Y lo hace con una serie de obras cuyo título no hace sino […]