Cultivate Your Own Garden: new exhibition at The Painting Center
The Painting Center presents Cultivate Your Own Garden, an exhibition of twelve contemporary artists: Cecile Chong, Elisabeth Condon, Daniel Dallmann, Carlo D’Anselmi, Lois Dodd, Ashley Garrett, Xico Greenwald, Eric Holzman, Wolf Kahn, Judith Linhares, Carol March and Ruth Miller.
Cultivate Your Own Garden is on view through March 24, 2018, in the Main Gallery and Project Room at 547 West 27th St., Suite 500, New York, NY
Green in Back, by Wolf Kahn, 2017, oil on canvas, 52 x 52 inches http://www.wolfkahn.com
The title for the show comes from the Voltaire novel Candide (1759) and refers to the idea of taking care of one’s own needs before taking care of others’. The idea of connecting to nature despite the cacophony of the world around us seems apt at this moment in history. Curators Patricia Spergel and Shazzi Thomas selected artists for this exhibition who reference garden and landscape in their work in a variety of ways – traditional observational painting, works with subtle satirical and political commentary, and paintings that lean towards abstraction. What all these paintings have in common is a love for nature and paint, and a clear, focused approach to transmitting that passion.
Embankment at Sleepy Hollow #2, by Eric Holzman, 2017, oil on linen, 14 x 12 inches
“There is a weariness and fatigue that sets in towards the end of winter. It is our hope that this exhibition will give the viewer a momentary respite from the relentless onslaught of the exterior world – both its politics and its harsh weather – and that carefully looking at these paintings will serve as a moment to pause, renew and reflect inward.” – from the forward to the exhibition’s catalogue by Patricia Spergel
To learn more about The Painting Center, and view or download the accompanying catalogue for the current exhibition Cultivate Your Own Garden, visit their website here.
Interior, by Carol March, 2003-2017, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches http://carolmarch.net/home.html
