Billy Sullivan Exhibition
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
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Nicole Klagsbrun presents Billy Sullivan’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. With his signature directness and clarity, Sullivan continues to paint portraits of close friends and acquaintances. Together with these portraits, a new series of still life paintings will be exhibited, as well as a foray into wallpaper featuring the Yorkshire terrier, Missy, as the central motif.
Seldom seen without his camera, Sullivan has built up an archive of subject matter ranging from Manhattan’s downtown club scene of the 1970s, to close friends, to chronicling the fashion world, to intimate scenes on Long Island beaches. He can return to this archive for new subjects, or pose new and old friends in his studio. The still lifes he has recently created are lively and luminous in their execution and reflect the impact on Sullivan’s paintings of Long Island’s East End’s clear, oceanwashed light, and the occasional influence of Fairfield Porter and Jane Freilicher, just as scenes of Manhattan’s occasionally crowded interiors take Warhol into account.
[Image: "Louie" (2008) oil on linen 30 x 22 in,]
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Schedule
from May 08, 2012 to June 16, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-05-10 from 18:00 to 20:00