Tag: pastel

Nicolas Party at FLAG Art Foundation

Visitors to Nicolas Party’s optically lush installation at FLAG Art Foundation encounter this intriguing pairing of a 18th century woman by French painter Jean-Baptiste Perronneau with a background still life mural painted by the celebrated young Swiss artist.  Both artworks were created with pastel, Party’s favored medium and Perronneau’s specialty.  Here, Party places ‘decadent’ court style in proximity to plump, slouching fruits with wan little stems that enact a kind of excess and pampering akin to the lady in her finery.  (On view in Chelsea through Feb 15th).

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Portrait of a woman with pink ribbons, n.d., pastel on paper, 17 5/8 x 25 5/8 inches and Nicolas Party, Still Life, soft pastel on wall, 84 inches, 2019.

Zaria Forman at Winston Wachter Fine Art

Known for large-scale majestic scenes of nature rendered in pastel on paper, Zaria Forman’s stunning new work takes her drawings to a new level.  Invited by NASA to join their regular data-collecting flights over Greenland and the Antarctic, Forman had access to the landscapes that she recreates in huge pastel drawings that demonstrate the beauty and fragility of our planet’s northern climates.  Here, a supraglacial lake is enchantingly beautiful but also a warmer spot that will contribute to this glacier’s faster melt.  (On view in Chelsea at Winston Wachter Fine Art through Dec 21st).

Zaria Forman, Supraglacial Lake (between Hiawatha and Humboldt Glaciers), Greenland, 79 degrees 6’59.05”N 65 degrees 15’54.99”W, July 19, 2017, soft pastel on paper, 60 x 81 7/8 inches, 2018.

Toyin Ojih Odutola at Jack Shainman Gallery

Wealth is a provocative topic for Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, who depicts two well-heeled fictional Nigerian families in her latest charcoal, pastel and pencil drawings at Chelsea’s Jack Shainman Gallery. Vibrant and moody, the portraits ask – as Ojih Odutola puts it – ‘what would wealth look like’ had colonialism not happened? (On view at both Jack Shainman Gallery locations through Oct 27th).

What Her Daughter Sees, pastel, charcoal and pencil on paper, 57 ¾ x 42 inches (paper), 2018.

Zachari Logan at Julie Saul Gallery

Young Saskatchewan-based artist Zachari Logan asserts a new place in the natural world for the male body in works like ‘Leshy,’ a human figure created from flora and fauna, beautifully rendered in pastels on black paper. (At Julie Saul Gallery in Chelsea through Aug 12th).

Zachari Logan, Leshy 3, pastel on black paper, 57 ½ x 37 ¾ inches, 2015.
Zachari Logan, Leshy 3, pastel on black paper, 57 ½ x 37 ¾ inches, 2015.

Sanya Kantarovsky at Casey Kaplan Gallery

Moscow-born, NYC-based painter Sanya Kantarovsky’s latest paintings at Chelsea’s Casey Kaplan Gallery explore awkward and absurd relationships. This twisted dupe appears to be horrified as he willingly bends over to have his hand crushed by a green-booted figure. (Through June 21st).

Sanya Kantarovsky, L’appetit, oil, watercolor, pastel, oilstick on canvas, 47” x 35,” 2014.

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