Tag: Jack Shainman

Y. G. Srimati at Jack Shainman Gallery

Late Indian artist Y. G. Srimati’s traditional Bharatanatyam dancer captivatingly demonstrates control and dynamism in this large-scale watercolor from 1963.  Trained in dance and other arts, Srimati once led devotional singing for Mahatma Gandhi and participated in India’s struggle for independence.  Adapting British-led art instruction to Indian painting tradition, Srimati pictured rural life and spiritual figures, developing her own uniquely Indian idiom.  (On view through August 9th at Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea).

Y. G. Srimati, Bartha Natyam Dancer, watercolor, 76 x 47 inches, 1963.

Claudette Schreuders at Jack Shainman Gallery

Human connection is the subject of ‘In the Bedroom,’ South African artist Claudette Schreuders’ latest show of wood sculpture at Chelsea’s Jack Shainman Gallery.  Here, in ‘Guilty Bystander,’ Schreuders offers an intimate look at a pensive, uncomfortable character who is somehow implicated in an event that we don’t see, begging the question of whether one must be physically close to an activity to be involved.  (On view through June 22nd).

Claudette Schreuders, Guilty Bystander, jelutong wood, enamel and oil paint, 51 3/16 x 11 13/16 x 16 ½ inches, 2018.

Paul Anthony Smith at Jack Shainman Gallery

Amid a mass of vibrant color, a solitary eye peeks out from beneath a pattern that recalls decorative fencing in this photo by Paul Anthony Smith at Jack Shainman Gallery. The barrier, created by meticulously making tiny tears in the surface of a photo, deflects our gaze, shielding the subject protectively.  (On view in Chelsea through May 11th).

Paul Anthony Smith, A Sense of Familiar, unique picotage on inkjet print, colored pencil mounted on museum board, 40 x 60 inches, 2018.

Carlos Vega at Jack Shainman Gallery

From persecuted religious figures to the first recorded female sculptor in Spain, Spanish artist Carlos Vega’s portrait paintings bring to light histories of remarkable women who refused traditional gender roles.  Here, Vega switches from mortals to marvel at the divine with an image of Lakshmi, Hindu goddess of wealth, fortune, prosperity.  (On view at Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea through March 30th).

Carlos Vega, Lakshmi, acrylic on canvas, 79 5/8 x 45 ¾ x 2 ½ inches, 2019.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Jack Shainman Gallery

British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye converses with John Singer Sargent’s 19th century portrait of a doctor in a red dressing gown standing before red drapes in this vivid painting of an imagined young man in a red jacket lounging on a red sofa.  Is he mimicking the crucifixion or expressing total relaxation in the comfort of this womb-red environment?  Titled ‘The Ventricular,’ matters of the heart and health come to mind.  (On view at Jack Shainman Gallery’s Chelsea locations through Feb 16th).

Lynette Yidaom-Boakye, The Ventricular, oil on linen, 47 ½ x 78 7/8 x 1 ½ inches, 2018.