NEW YORK, N.Y.- Diane Arbus: A Chronology (October, 2011) reads like a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential, and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbus’s extensive …
A Collector’s Eye: Cranach to Pissarro Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
LIVERPOOL.- A Collector’s Eye: Cranach to Pissarro is a unique exhibition of paintings from a stunning private collection. Running from Friday 18 February to Sunday 15 May 2011 at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, A Collector’s Eye: Cranach…
New Paintings by Steve Mumford at Postmasters Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Steve Mumford. The show will be on view until March 27, 2010. This will be Mumford’s fifth exhibition at Postmasters presenting two distinct groups of paintings: large scale heroic figurative ones and graffiti based text works. In his new paintings Mumford continues to investigate the war in Iraq, based on his experiences there and the understanding he gleaned from civilians and combatants. Sometimes from the perspective of the American soldiers, sometimes from the insurgents’ point of view, these paintings explore peoples’ motivations in war, the ties that bind as well as fracture. Iraqi prostitutes at a Western hotel; rifts between foreign jihadis and Iraqi nationalists; tender farewells of a suicide bomber; anguid afternoons of a US platoon; Koranic exhortations to jihad