: Seven large paintings and several drawings by Lorraine Shemesh
will be on exhibition at the Allan Stone Gallery, 113 East 90th
Street, in a show entitled "Liquid States" from April 29-June 11.
In this new series of work, Shemesh, a classical figurative
painter, uses water to reach beyond the directly observed world
and explore more abstract concerns. The surfaces have become
impastoed - exploding with saturated color, seductive textures,
and light.
Lorraine Shemesh's work has been shown at the National Academy of
Design in New York, the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work is in many public
collections including the Boise Art Museum in Idaho; the
DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass.; the Museum of the City of New
York; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence,
R.I.
The Allan Stone Gallery opened in 1960 showing works by Willem de
Kooning, Cesar, Joseph Cornell, Barnett Newman, and a host of
then-emerging artists such as Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud,
Richard Estes, Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse and John Chamberlain. The
gallery continues to show contemporary, mid-career and emerging
artists while maintaining a tradition of expertise in the New
York School of Abstract Expressionism (Willem de Kooning, Franz
Kline, Arshile Gorky, John Graham)
For information, 212-987-4997.
