Sixties Nostalgia
If you’re feeling nostalgic for the sixties, find yourself dreaming about those days of revolution, and are craving art — take a look at Barbara Mathes Gallery’s exhibition Spaces of American Pop: Allan D’Arcangelo, Joe Goode and Robert Moskowitz. These three American artists captured the changing spaces of the American landscape during the 60s by using existing materials and Pop imagery in imaginative and original compositions.
Allan D’Arcangelo (American, 1930-1998) took the American highway and infused it with personal significance by using collaged postcards from his hometown of Buffalo, NY. Jack Kerouac rings in my head, “What’s Your Road, Man?” While Robert Moskowitz (American, 1912-2001) takes the conception of painting as a window onto the world — playing with the interior/exterior space of the studio. And Joe Goode (American, 1937) departs from the simple depiction of Polaroids in his use of black canvases that are punctuated by illusionistic photographs of the blue sky – suggesting a contrast between day and night, or indoor and outdoor.
All three artists display a playful and alternative approach to painting, leaving us desirous of the depicted times in which they came from.
We would be remiss not to mention these other great shows opening this week!
Zurich, Switzerland
Bernard Schultze und Hann Trier at Galerie Orlando
Kleine Orte, Grosse Künstler. Ascona, Oschwand, Dessau, Murnau… at Galerie Orlando
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
SPANISH KÜNSTLER at Galerie AM PARK
San Francisco, California
CHRIS DOROSZ: TIERGARTEN at Scott Richards Contemporary Art
Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Somewhere Else, Somewhere Good at John Berggruen Gallery
New York, New York
John Walker: Recent Paintings at Alexandre Gallery
Phoenix, Arizona
Judith Kruger: Outside In- at Bentley Gallery
