Today I visited the gallery where my friend Nicole works. It's called Galerie Zurcher and is located on Bleecker Street next to the Zero Maria Cornejo store. The show is officially over but was still up - work by a young artist, Matt Bollinger. There were some drawings but what was really fantastic were these painted collages. Here is one of them:
It's hard to tell but what the artist did was paint pieces of paper, cut them up, and glue them to form this image. So any time you see a shift in color, it's a different piece of painted paper, cut up. The lines separating the lockers aren't painted, they're strips of painted paper, glued on. It's really amazing to see close up -- the three dimensionality is striking, and you can't help but be impressed by how much time it must have taken to create the piece. This piece was sold, and Nicole said it could have sold 7 times over. Not bad for a painting that cost several thousand dollars.
Here are a couple of others -- these pieces made me nostalgic for my childhood. The controller in this one was dead on.
As was the logo on this Trapper Keeper painting:
It's not often I find contemporary paintings that are inspiring, but this was definitely one time. You can view more of his work on his website.
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