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God must live here. The magnificent mountains and valley of Valais, Switzerland.Valais, Switzerland– It is here where the highest ski slopes in the Swiss Alps, the iconic Matterhorn peak, beckon world-class snowboarders and skiers alike and where the historic River Rhône begins its portentous, serpentine descent from atop the Rhône Glacier in the northernmost part of the region, winding its …

t is entirely fitting that the current show exhibiting in the Bushwick space called Secret Dungeon is titled STAMINA. This two-woman show, curated by Alexandra Fanning, brings together two female artists from differing backgrounds exploring the universal psychological, social, and cultural ways of viewing and valuing the labor of women’s work. Thai-Australian performance artist Kawita Vatanajyankur, presents candy-colored films featuring …

elcome back to our later summer/fall edition of Artists We Know.  For our second series of articles for Quiet Lunch will be serving both new and lesser known artists as well as artists well into their respective careers. So without further ado: Our first article of this season profiles David Byrd, an artist since deceased whose oeuvre leaves an impression. …

ncountering the works of artist Michael Carini, visionary is the most apt adjective that comes to mind. The evocative transcendence of Carini’s potent style, a blend of abstract expressionism and an urban art aesthetic, is immediately apparent. Few artists working today embody the distilled purity of emotional expression in their work that Carini effortlessly exudes through his paintings. What sets the …

Red Hook’s newest gallery space, ROODGALLERY, has recently transformed into a fantastical shop-like space for strange figurines and looming paintings of unearthly creatures. Wunderkammer, a solo presentation of abstract-turned figurative painter Peter Opheim, utilizes the gallery’s unconventional space to transform into a fictional cabinets de curiosités incorporating Opheim’s monumental oil paintings with corresponding figurative sculptures. Quirkily presented within custom, handmade wooden vitrines, the space …

nna Zorina’s show is as jubilant as it is varied. Though two clusters of graphite angels might disagree, color and collage are the stars of Summer Cool. Here, a cardboard collage of a drunken-sailor type feels at home with a rendition of Magritte’s Son of Man done entirely in paint injected bubble wrap. More subtle work can be found in the …

f you haven’t been wandering the Lower East Side Galleries, you may have missed something special at Castor Gallery on Broome Street. Nature, an exhibition of new work from Jeanette Hayes, Michael Manning, Austin Lee, Patrick Jacobs, Robert Lazzarini and Jonas Lund, explores art practice rooted in mathematics, algorithms, code and modern technology which continue to push the barrier on …

Artists are motivated to produce their work for myriad reasons. Few would take the risk of travelling to one of the world’s most dangerous places to do it. But for British artist-cum-sculptor Piers Secunda, a trip to the frontline of the fight against Isis was essential to his work. Secunda travelled to Iraq’s frontlines with Isis to take highly accurate …

t Georges Bergès Gallery, a work called Punch Them Hard, sequestered in the back room, is a left over from a recent era of the featured artist’s previous work. It combines a sea of faces representing the masses that provides a solid background pattern for foreground imagery that, unfortunately, seems all too fresh and vivid. In silhouette, anonymous thugs are …

Today we’re having a look at the work of conceptual photographer Torrance Hall. Only 17 years-old, the young Richmond based shutterbug is producing some striking self portraits that has landed him on our radar. What intrigues us the most about Hall’s work is the vivid commentary on masculinity. Hall, with a soft but determined gaze, challenges the constructs of “manliness”—disputing …

an’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story, a documentary putting a long awaited spotlight on the famed Bad Boy Records, was recently released on Apple Music. Now, if you are a fan of 90s hip hop, you know what the Bad Boy movement meant to that era and Black culture —hell, culture in general. Centered around a 2016 reunion …

ara de la Garza recently debuted her newest solo exhibition, Unnatural Selection, at The Lodge Gallery. Inspired by Nature’s potential, the west coast artist uses her exhibition to help us envision what it would be like if that very potential went unchecked—undisturbed by human interference. The result is a whimsical world of hybrid organisms, a library of awe-inspiring holistic hodgepodges pieced …

he two most famous things from Kassel Germany are the Brothers Grimm and the quinquennial art exhibition Documenta. This year these two cultural institutions have something in common, they both aim to frighten. At the opening press conference for Documenta 14 “Learning from Athens” the curatorial staff made it clear that this year’s event was going to be very political …

n Friday, June 9th the revolutionary new National Institute of Urban Art will open its first exhibit featuring artworks by Swoon, Logan Hicks, Revok, Invader, Brian Adam Douglas (/ELBOW- TOE), Shepard Fairey, RETNA, and more. This exhibition, “Uncontainable: Urban Art from Vandalism to Movement”, opens from 5 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. in partnership with the Thomas Center Galleries, 302 NE …

pening on May 8th, the launch of Francesco Vezzoli’s TV 70 at Fondazione Prada was, to a large extent, overshadowed by the Venice Biennale. With Prada’s presence in Venice this year, it is easy to miss what they are doing on their home turf in Milan. To do so, however, would be a pity. In collaboration with TV Channel La …

ew artists encapsulate the saying “there’s more than meets the eye” than artist Frodo Mikkelsen, whose subtle explorations of nature and the human psyche captivate endlessly. With an interdisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, graffiti and mixed-media, Mikkelsen’s works propose a world simultaneously visceral and logic-defying. Themes of mortality contrast with the eternal, recalling a poignant sense of the fleeting transience …

n a rapidly expanding world facing the residual effects of post-truth and social media oversaturation, 57th Venice Biennale curator Christine Macel (from the Centre Pompidou in Paris) had her work cut out for her. For Viva Arte Viva, Macel’s curated portion at the Arsenale and Giardini for the 2017 Biennale, the curator adopted an esoteric worldview. Her curatorial hand revealed …

hokers, The Met Ball, Frieze New York 2017… Sorry, you distracted me while I was making my list of things all the cool kids are doing lately. Frieze NY this year is so cool (but not trying too hard to be, obv) and topical this year that it is… impossible to ignore. Not quite Pepsi commercial-level topical (although almost—looking at …

eide Hatry’s stand was slapbang in front of the entrance to the Frieze tent. The German artist had a number of copies of her book, Icons in Ash, on a table, alongside an example of the work, portraiture of the departed, rendered in their ash. A few possible future clients were looking the work over. So into the fair. If Frieze …

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eeking a detailed, unsettling antidote to minimal art? You can’t do much better than the exciting expressionist art of Aaron Johnson. Gone Fishin’, the current exhibition of Johnson’s work, is on view through May 20th at Joshua Liner gallery in Chelsea (Manhattan). Works in the show take painting as a common medium, covering themes as mundane and elevated as cheeseburgers …

ssiduously painted patterns decorate scarves hearkening to vibrant symbols of identity. Colors and intricate detail permeate the paintings of fabric in motion. These incredible realist paintings are by Agnieszka Żak-Bielowa, the renowned Polish artist whose distinct painting style has earned her accolades throughout Europe. Incorporating realist and pop stylings, Żak-Bielowa will be showing in NYC during a rare exhibit period …

rawing inspiration from Ukiyo-e art and Japanese culture, illustrator Andrew Archer depicts basketball under a dramatic visual narrative. In the series Edo Ball, Archer takes traditional Japanese technique and integrates it with basketball colloquialisms and well known nicknames. Edo Ball essentially began in 2013 with two personal artworks, The Rock & The Ghost. Each artwork is available as prints, postcards and T-shirts from the store. Quiet …

yons Wier Gallery is pleased to announce Dimensions Variable by James Gortner. “Dimensions Variable” highlights Gortner’s rigorous exploration of photorealism by hand-sculpting each surface using wood, foam, staples, canvas and acrylic paint before using oil paint to realistically render the figure.  The results transform the expectations of the two-dimensional surface into a beguiling three-dimensional composition.  “Dimensions Variable” also features the artist’s …

etween you sins and your good deeds, it can be a little to determine where you stand—but who is to say that you can’t have your foot in both? After all… isn’t life about duality? The Heaven Sent + Hellbound pin set is a must have for anyone who not only knows where they come from but knows where they’re …

esigner Martyna Kalinska recently finished up her latest series, Fucking Rebels. Depicting various members of the animalia kingdom, each mugshot was created with a three color scheme which gives everything that pop culture feel. We caught up with Kalinska who kind enough to give us a little background on the new project: “Fucking Rebels series was created to show the bullies …

iberia born artist Ivana Bašić captures the human skin in vulnerable but proud form in her lengthly titled sculpture, In my scarred fevered skin you see the end. In your healthy flesh I see the same. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When …

“A woman’s highest calling is to lead a man to his soul, so as to unite him with the source. A man’s highest calling is to protect woman, so she is free to walk the earth unharmed.” – Cherokee proverb. nce upon a time, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in the United States, women had the strength and the …

oday we discovered the photography of Roe Ethridge. Ethridge’s work is playful but rich. The photographer also recently wrapped up a solo exhibition titled, American Spirit, at Andrew Kreps Gallery. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we …

nce again, Thomas Yang (of 100 Copies) has made an exquisite print for the art enthusiast who is also a cycling enthusiast. Yang explains the concept behind his latest print “Light The Night”: “Even if you have taken a route many times in the day, riding at night lets you see it in a different light. Because when day turns …

ou know what they say, “another man’s filthy vehicle is another man’s canvas…” No one believes this more than Nikita Golubev. The Russian artist recently started making masterpieces out of dirt covered cars, vans, buses and trucks—oddly enough this gives that owners even more incentive not to wash their vehicles. You can follow Golubev at @ProBoyNick on Instagram. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a …

e sure to stop by the Met this week to check out Adrian Villar Rojas’ Theater of Disappearance, located in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.  Fifth in a series of installation commissioned for the space, Rojas’ beautiful creation will be on display until October 29 2017.   Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks …

opular for his latest series, PIXCELL, we decided to take a look back at Kohei Nawa‘s 2013 installation, FOAM. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com