Newsgroups: rec.arts.fine
Subject: Re: At Two NYC Galleries
From: machanicm@gtephx.UUCP (Mindy Machanic)
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:47:29 GMT
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona

In article <1992Aug16.040207.13953@panix.com>, gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
> I'm distributing this more widely than NYC on the theory
> that a lot of people come through New York, and might be
> interested.  Both galleries are in Soho, which is just 
> west of Broadway between Houston and Canal Streets, easy
> to reach by subway or bus.
> 

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> Circle Gallery
> 468 West Broadway
> 
> The Circle Gallery has a show called "Masters of
> Photojournalism."  The masters are Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas
> Feininger, Dmitri Kessel, Nina Leen, Leonard McCombe, Carl
> Mydans, and Peter Stackpole, and the photographs seem to come
> from the Life Gallery of Photography.  I don't know if all of
> them appeared in _Life_, but they are of the _Life_ genre; a
> very high quality of interesting, realistic work, but nothing
> much to disturb or provoke.  Fun to look at.  The images are
> mostly familiar through republication; you know what they look
> like already, but you want to look at them again because
> they're good.
>              
Wish I could see this one!


> Outside of photographs, the Circle is showing the following:
> 
> Vasarely: painting and sculpture.  And jewelry and watches!
> Very pretty, mostly mindless top-of-the-line op art.  A feast
> for the eyes, anyway.  There is a _lot_ of Vasarely; I take it
> he works hard and sells much.
>                         
Boring art at ridiculous prices.

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> Calman Shemi: four or five large paintings; son of Kandinsky,
> so to speak.

Shemi is interesting; I almost bought one of his pieces, but 
lacked the $$$. He works on felt-like cloth, in large wall paintings
that hang from grommets or rods, in free-form patterns. I like the
textures with the colors. He's spawned some knock-offs.

> 
> Jan Balet: a kind of stylized cartoonish technique, and most or
> all of the work is small and humorous.  A lot of the stuff, and
> one feels it's popular somewhere.

His stuff is starting to make it into the textbooks. I own some of
it--a picture of a man-horse, woman and ringmaster at a circus, a
wedding party sitting under trees. I used to own one of the "seasons"
series. Just out of curiousity, what are these selling for now. (E-mail
would get to me faster than posting. I leave this job on Aug. 20., and 
our netfeed is notoriously erratic.)
                       

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> 
> Lebadang: odd, interesting work.  It's sculpted paper, mostly
> black, though some works are white.  The artist is said to be
> Vietnamese, but the work looks African to me; heavy and yet
> delicate, emotive and intellectual at the same time.  Best in
> show.

I like this stuff, too,

-- 
Mindy
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