A View from the Edge of New York
Andrew Lenaghan and the Rockaways
January 2023
Since the late 1990s, Andrew Lenaghan has made a point of capturing the hidden corners of New York City,finding those details most of us miss out on. Whether it be a dead end street of dilapidated warehouses or a busy intersection in downtown Brooklyn, there is a palpable sense of the city through his paintings.
Joan Brown: Then and Now
50 Years of Retrospectives
December 2022
With the opening of Joan Brown at SFMoMA, the long over-due retrospective celebrating the work of the native San Franciscan, we were reminded of Joan’s last solo outing at the museum, just over fifty years ago. During her life and after, there have been several attempts to take a broader view of her work, across the many series’, mediums and periods that defined her. We take a look back at these exhibitions and how they’ve shaped our understanding of Brown and her work.
Tour de Tribeca
Getting out and about in the neighborhood
April 2022
With Spring at our front door, we’ve been getting out and about in the neighborhood, and there’s much to be seen.
Amer Kobaslija on Documenting the 2011 Tsunami in Japan
One Hundred Views of Kesennuma
June 2020
Following the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan, Amer Kobaslija arranged to visit the town of Kesennuma in the Miyagi Prefecture, with the aim of chronicling the aftermath.
Robert Arneson's Self Portraits in Bronze
May 2020
In the last decades of his life, Robert Arneson began using bronze both for the versatility of the medium and its usefulness in public installations.
Tony May's Documentary Paintings
May 2020
Tony May’s documentary paintings are precisely that: a record of the installations, projects and repairs he’s completed over the years.
Elmer Bischoff and the Northern California Landscape
Painting from memory
May 2020
Elmer Bischoff was born and raised in Oakland, California and he lived his entire life in the Bay Area. Its landscape is an inescapable force in his paintings.
Arnaldo Roche-Rabell's Self-Portraits
Celebrating Earth Day
April 2020
In celebration of Earth Day this year, we are reminded of the power of nature, as seen in the work of Arnaldo Roche Rabell from the early 1990s.
Andrew Lenaghan's New York
Painting across the five boroughs
April 2020
Andrew Lenaghan’s work lends itself perfectly to today’s empty New York.
Enrique Chagoya's codices
April 2020
Enrique Chagoya's codices are, in fact, books, in the tradition of ancient Mesoamerican texts. He employs the same amate paper and accordion format, read right to left, while updating the pictorial language with recognizable, contemporary images.
Jeremy Anderson's Topographical Map Drawings
April 2020
While Jeremy Anderson found inspiration in the ancient civilizations and their artifacts, the map drawings he started in the 1960s laid out his personal mythologies.
Amer Kobaslija's Studio Paintings
April 2020
An artwork we've been thinking of recently is Amer Kobaslija's Painter's Floor with Chair and Ladder, 2005.
Jack Beal Working from Nature
Oneonta, New York
April 2020
Jack Beal’s relationship to Realism is rooted in his commitment to working from life.
Luis Cruz Azaceta
The AIDS Epidemic Series
March 2020
As we are out of the gallery and unable to enjoy our current exhibition, another work by Luis Cruz Azaceta comes to mind.