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TRANSLATIONS. | Mark Dorf.

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rtist Mark Dorf is finally putting out a book and he needs your help. Published by Aint–Bad, TRANSLATIONS will include Dorf’s popular series,  //_PATH and Emergence. The artist recently debuted a Kickstarter campaign and could use some help in bringing the 96 page book to life. We are longtime fans of Dorf’s work and we guarantee you that this is a project worth supporting. …

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Window Dressing: Artist Elliott De Cesare at Bergdorf Goodman.

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The other day, while walking from the Quiet Lunch offices on Fifth Avenue and 27th Street to a meeting further up Fifth by The Plaza Hotel, we couldn’t help but stop and stare at the magnificent window display at Bergdorf Goodman, the world’s premier fashion retailer. Not being Christmas, it’s rare our eyes spot something in the windows to temporarily …

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Away from the Light.

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Similar to the aesthetic of Mark Dorf, Charles Bergquist‘s What Happens in the Dark features an artful alteration of an organic landscape through use of geometric shapes and abstract hues.

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Path Finder.

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Photographer Mark Dorf, from Louisville, KY, manipulates his images in a little white box in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He focuses on the wide-open spaces of nature and how they shift in an increasingly tech-first world. The environments he creates are bound with a sheen of lucidity. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from The Savannah College of Art …

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The Existential Journey of Joanne Leah.

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Art is an outward articulation but it is also an inward journey of growth and painstaking self exploration. Joanne Leah’s work is a raw, beautiful, candid blossoming of the artist. Although she no longer uses herself as a subject, Leah manages to weave an existential narrative that is relatable but still intimately her own. When you gaze upon her work …

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Rita McBride, Particulates and Douglas Gordon, back and forth and forth and back

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Simultaneous installations in Chelsea this winter warrant our attention and consideration. At D.I.A.:Chelsea a work by Rita McBride and at Gagosian, Douglas Gordon’s environment of projections and video objects. Both are set in darkness which in itself alters the viewer’s consciousness and introduces a subtle effect of entering a semi-conscious state. Inside 541 West 22nd Street behind a sign that …

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A Slice of Pie: New York City in Pictures and Paint, Circa 1955. | Works by Arthur King and Joann Gedney.

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Opening Reception Brunch with live jazz by the Bob DeMeo Trio this Sunday! January 25th, 1-3pm The Yard, Lincoln Square 157 Columbus Avenue (at 67th street) New York, NY 10023 Curated by Gregory de la Haba ew York City circa 1955 was a thriving hotbed of creativity. In the downtown art scene, cooperative galleries on or near Tenth Street like Tanager, Brata and …