Michael Halsband “Halsband Portraits”
The National Arts Club
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The National Arts Club and its Fine Arts Committee presents a survey of portraiture by the renowned American photographer, Michael Halsband.
Halsband’s 1985 iconic portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol no. 143 in boxing gloves became such a staple of popular culture that its appropriation by contemporary visual artists and street artists continues thirty years on. This was an auspicious early moment in a career that saw Halsband photographing a canon of 20th-century artists, writers and musicians including James Brown, David Byrne, Jim Carroll, Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop, LL Cool J, Klaus Nomi, R.E.M., The Rolling Stones, Hunter S. Thompson, Peter Tosh, AC/DC and many more. This exhibition at The National Arts Club will span over three decades of the artist’s portraits, including two never-before exhibited works: a photograph from the 1985 Warhol Basquiat with boxing gloves series and an up-close 35mm film of The Rolling Stones’ Live Performance during their Tattoo You tour.
For the last decade, Michael Halsband has continued to create 8 x 10 portraits of prominent artists, friends, and creative professionals. His work is in the collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Miami Museum of Contemporary Art; The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; and the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
The exhibition marks the fourth installment of the Fine Arts Winter 2015 program, under the direction of Dianne B. Bernhard, and will provide a contemporary compliment to prior exhibitions, including the record breaking exhibitions; ‘Charles James: Beneath the Dress,’ ‘Dali: The Golden Years’ and ‘Goya: Los Caprichos.’
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from March 30, 2015 to April 25, 2015