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Well, not quite, but animals populate some our favorite shows right now. Walton Ford’s “birds and beasts” (in the words of the exhibition’s title) are a wild counterpart to the playful dogs, cats, and bears of Maija Peeples-Bright and Roy De Forest, while Julia Isídrez’s creatural ceramic vessels create a world of their own. Beyond the animal kingdom, don’t miss surveys of beloved art luminaries like Eva Hesse and mid-career charmers such as Loie Hollowell, the latter a little out of town, in Connecticut.
By the end of the day you may be itching for a painting ...
or a pet. — Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor Painting Within a Painting This one-room exhibition is a glass of cold water on a summer’s day. All eight artists (Nell Blaine, Joe Brainard, Rudy Burckhardt, Jane Freilicher, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, and Trevor Winkfield) knew one another, and three of them even studied together with Hans Hoffmann at his renowned art school.
Each painter has exhibited at Tibor de Nagy Gallery before, so the show offers a look at the gallery’s own artistic lineage too. The artistic conversation is rich, and the idea of a painti.
