Category: artists

Mindy Shapero

Shapero transmutes negatives from past sculptural pieces into positive shapes that form the bedrock of her cosmic abstractions. Shapero’s repeating motifs—irregular rectangles and ovals that resemble “scars” or ruptures in the surface— are highlighted through the artist’s application of delicate gold leaf, an adornment dating back more than 8,000 years in the canon of art history.

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Paul Feeley

Sharon at Two Coats notes a major shift in Paul’s work evident in a (posthumous) exhibit at Garth Greenan. She notes that today when artists work freely across all mediums and platforms, “the measured boundary-crossing that Feeley undertook in the 1960s may seem quaint. Still, there is something durably refreshing about his conviction, then iconoclastic, that undulating lines and shapes could convey a robust sense of humanity, and that even hard-edge geometric shapes could convey emotional content.”

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Conrad Marca-Relli

was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists (he was part of the “downtown group”). Marca-Relli was among the 24 out of a total 256 New York School artists included in the Ninth Street Show and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves.

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