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Jake Clark at A Hug From The Art World

Children delight in balloons and bunnies frolic on a Central Park lawn in new ceramics by Australia-to-New York transplant Jake Clark at A Hug from the Art World.  Titled ‘At the Carlyle,’ Clark’s show is an homage to murals by Marcel Vertes’ in The Carlyle’s Café and the famed wall works by Ludwig Bemelmans (author of the Madeline children’s books) in the Bemelmans Bar.  Large, colorful and joyous, the focus of the ceramics is more on Clark’s vibrant interpretation of Bemelman’s illustration than The Carlyle’s dimly-lit spaces, fitting for a late summer show.

Jake Clark, Bemelmans Bar (Dancing Bunnies), glazed earthenware, 16.15 x 5.1 inches, 2022.

Roy Nachum at A Hug From the Art World

Five huge photorealist portraits by Israeli-New Yorker Roy Nachum dominate the creatively titled Chelsea gallery ‘A Hug from the Art World.’ The sense of immediacy that their size generates in this compact space is amplified by expressionist painting on their surfaces.  At first puzzling for the contrast between styles, an upstairs video reveals the paintings to be layered portraits, collaborations between Nachum and blind makers like Rosie Lopez, pictured here.  Once explained, the portraits become fascinating expressions of self-representation.  (On view through May 7th).

Roy Nachum, Rosie Lopez, oil on canvas, 84 x 71 inches, 2015 – 2022.