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Art

Painting Now & Forever Part II

When

July 2, 2008 – Aug 15, 2008

Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)

Where

Greene Naftali

508 W 26th St

8th Fl

212.463.7770

Price

Free

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Greene Naftali says…

A return to good old-fashioned painting, this 42-artist group exhibition is a welcome respite from the predictable deluge of overly conceptual art. Merlin Carpenter's Gallows invokes cluttered studios, in which artists maddeningly struggle to create still lifes with ambitious verisimilitude; the inclusion of an actual easel beside the painted one invites a dialog on the contemporary function and efficacy of pigment on canvas. Elsewhere, stylistically disparate works are secretly in cahoots over the collective viscosity of oil, acrylic, and enamel — whatever form they may take when applied to canvas, carpet, wood, or shredded fabric.