BLT Gallery
270 Bowery
212.226.6106
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Herb Brown, Courtesy of BLT Gallery
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Opens Wednesday Jan 27, 2010 (6–8pm)
Jan 28, 2010 – Apr 1, 2010
Thursdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized artist from the 1960s who studied under German Objectivist Max Beckmann. Though Brown featured heavily in the personal tastes of mid-century gallerists, his provocative work was untouchable due to the period's obscenity laws. (Iconic New York dealer Leo Castelli rejected Brown's oeuvre in 1965, deeming the content "pornographic" and inappropriate for a commercial gallery space.) Now, after many of his paintings burned in a massive studio fire, BLT pulls together some of the remaining ones, plus video pieces, that showcase Brown's ferocious version of Pop Art. Scrawled drawings over ads and subway posters may now be de rigeur, but the trend had to start somewhere.
