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More Figurative Art March 31, 2007

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This time from a New York Artist, Angela DeRosette, who has developed a unique method of painting using arcylics. Very Striking and very large. All self portraits and all sold out at Gallery Ramis Barquet here in NYC. The Show was called Don’t get too Close.

Claudia’s Enviromental Installation March 31, 2007

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Featuring pieces of work from Paula Hayes and Brazilan Designer Hugo França. Quite a hit with the design Miami.

Art Basel Conversations March 31, 2007

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My Colleague Claudia Dias conversing with the work of Folkert de Jong during setup at this years Art Basel. Her installation was going in next door so she was blowing off some steam with the Dutch Artist’s styrofoam installations.

Contemporary Portraiture from China March 30, 2007

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Ling Jian, Suspension in Melancholy

In New York figurative painting is definitely not popular among the art cognoscenti. In China judging by the incidence of portraits at the recent Armory Show during Asian Art week here in New York City there were a suprising number of figurative portrayals. Most of them quite striking.

Prehistoric Encounters March 30, 2007

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Alexis Rockman, Study for a New Painter.  Blonde meets Neanderthal.

Paleolithic Sex from Alexis Rockman

A Prehistoric encounter between a Homo Sapiens Sapiens Female and a Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis as envisaged by the Artist Alexis Rockman. Part of a study for a new work based on prehistoric encounters of an intimate nature.

A Full Moon March 30, 2007

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Rising over lower Manhattan on a Winter’s NightLower Manhattan

Dangerous Beauty March 30, 2007

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The Video

Every once in a while I have to post something different and entirely off topic. So you can call this a video test but it is a scene from the opening of Dangerous Beauty curated by Servet Kocyigit at the Chelsea Art Museum here in New York on Thursday night.

Dangerous Beauty

Fans of Portraiture can also catch David Krepfle’s ‘DUMBO’ at the Museum of Autodidactic Art in Berlin starting on February 1, 2007