NYAB Event - “Zeuxis: Still, Blue” Exhibition

“Zeuxis: Still, Blue” Exhibition

First Street Gallery

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FIRST STREET GALLERY presents a group exhibition by Zeuxis, An Association of Still Life Painters.

“Painters compose with color the way composers paint with notes; one form builds in space, the other in time… And here is something else music and painting have in common: both can sing the blues.”

These words by Imogen Smith on the exhibition Still, Blue eloquently sum up the essence of Zeuxis’ latest project. Any self-respecting still life, of course, is never still in the sense of being static. Its colors shift, push and build: a blue can be icy or mild, bracing or elusive. The challenge set by Zeuxis for the artists in Still, Blue is to investigate a particular blue, and from its character develop an entire painting.

Since 1995 Zeuxis, an association of still life painters, has organized dozens of group shows in New York City and around the country. Its exhibitions have been reviewed by The New York Times, The New York Sun, The Hudson Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. The 31 participants in “Still, Blue” include, in addition to the artists of Zeuxis, guests Sallie Benton, Matt Klos, Carol Stewart, Benny Fountain, Catherine Maize, Stephanie Rauschenbusch, and Sheldon Tapley.

Imogen Sara Smith is the author of two books on film, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Her writing on the arts has appeared in Threepenny Review, The Believer, Moving Image Source, Bright Lights Film Journal, and other publications.

[image: Margaret McCann “Mom’s Accordion” (2013) oil on linen, 22x28 in.]