Adrianne Lobel "Broad Daylight"
Bowery Gallery
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Adrianne Lobel, an artist best known as the stage designer for Nixon in China, An American Tragedy at the Met: Passion, A Year with Frog and Toad and The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway and The Hard Nut and L'Allegro for Mark Morris at BAM, among many other productions. For her first exhibition at Bowery, the artist brings an exacting sense of proportion, architectural detail and geometric rigor to the places she paints near her home in upstate New York. Her appreciation of the pathos of the everyday, and her sheer pleasure in oil paint, illuminate more than a dozen large canvases of abandoned garages, defunct malls, and out-of-business bowling alley—all captured in broad daylight.
Reviewing the group show "Summer Pictures" (Julie Saul Gallery, Summer 2009) Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times:
"…two paintings by Adrianne Lobel, a well-known set and production designer for theater, opera and dance, return to nature with prismatic, muscularly rendered images of trees that bring to mind the work of Benjamin Butler."
Describing the same show in The New Yorker, another reviewer noted"…Adrianne Lobel's abstracted trees (which nod to Cezanne and Van Gogh)."
More recently, painter George Negroponte has described Ms. Lobel's paintings as "…charged, smart and very beautifully observed."
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from October 04, 2011 to October 30, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-10-06 from 17:00 to 20:00