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Robert Streicher’s recent show at the Albert Insinger Gallery (Feb ’99) in the heart of the "New Chelsea" took even the most jaded New York gallery… |
Robert Streicher’s recent show at the Albert Insinger Gallery (Feb ’99) in the heart of the "New Chelsea" took even the most jaded New York gallery goer by surprise.
According to NY Art critic and curator Stephen Millstein: "The surfaces take
the viewer by surprise almost immediately. The color, the surface, the
pattern seem instantly recognizable, yet somehow one can’t place these
images in context. Perhaps Mr. Streicher is one of those rare romantics
dealing in a visual mythology of what we have seen in our dreams –
riveting in its freshness and vitality. One feels immediately warmed by
the familiarity, and provoked by the daring. This is a personality
painter."This is not an unusual response to Mr. Streicher’s
work. As a "State of the Art" choreographer and dancer from the 70’s
on, Mr. Streicher elicited strong responses from the critical community
through his radical use of "Pop", primitive and expressionistic
stylizations to produce a theatre of personal power – reactionary
towards the worn minimalism so popular of the time. The audiences were
highly pleased – not so the critics.
