Claude Lazar “Modern Life”
Franklin Bowles Galleries -New York
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In this the 40th Anniversary of the gallery, we are delighted to celebrate 20 years of representing Claude Lazar. Like Edward Hopper, Lazar has remained faithful to realism and has often commented that his interest in the films of Hitchcock and The French New Wave filmmakers have occupied him throughout his career. Lazar is always on the verge of telling a story: when will the figure turn the corner onto the empty street? When will the couple enter the empty room? Like a mystery novel that you don’t want to finish, Lazar’s paintings create an atmosphere of emotional depth and universal experience.
Lazar loves surfaces and how light brings them alive. ‘Obvious beauty,’ is never his subject; rather, he wants to elevate the ordinary through exploration, by looking deeply. Lazar introduces mysterious elements of light and dark and they play across his canvases. What emerges is a vision of unexpected urban beauty, a mirror for recapturing memories.
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from September 01, 2014 to September 30, 2014