Matt Bollinger s Intimate Look at America s Lost Year @ Zürcher Gallery
Zurcher Gallery // March 13, 2021 - April 29, 2021
April 02, 2021 | in Painting Many of the threads of tension, overwork, sickness, and white culture that came to a head this past year are tangled in this group of paintings, Matt Bollinger states in the press release for his current show
Furlough at Zürcher Gallery. And indeed, the texture and brushwork-rich paintings that are currently on view in NY are imbued with a sense of almost tangible fatigue and indifference. By capturing such a distinctive ambiance, the Ithaca-based artist is pointing out the burden that is accumulating through the generations of unhealthy socio-economical politics.
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A visitor wearing her face mask looks at the Degas sculpture ‘Little Dancer Aged Fourteen’ at the National Gallery of Art in July Photo: kevin lamarque/Reuters By Karen Wilkin Dec. 13, 2020 12:00 pm ET
The last “normal” art-world event I attended, on March 12, was the opening of Kyle Staver’s exhibition at Zurcher Gallery, in downtown New York. The usual crowd gathered to savor Ms. Staver’s idiosyncratic updates on history painting a waterborne Ophelia; Susanna in a hammock, flanked by tigers; the enigmatic Venus and the Octopus and admire her exuberant conceptions, sinuous figures, and brooding color. The only sign of anything out of the ordinary was the absence of embrac