Barnaby Furnas at Marianne Boesky Gallery

Barnaby Furnas, Jonah and the Whale #2, water-based pigment, color pencil and acrylic on linen, 2012.
Barnaby Furnas, Jonah and the Whale #2, water-based pigment, color pencil and acrylic on linen, 2012.

Whale-lovers beware at Barnaby Furnas’ latest solo show at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea – riffing on Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ and Jonah’s cetacean misadventure, Furnas’s new paintings picture whalers in total, gory triumph.  Inspired by the fact that whale oil provided light for lamps, Furnas bathes a tattered Jonah in celestial light as he reaches shore, prepared to follow a new path.  (Through Dec 21st).