“Stand-up comedy and painting are both performative acts,” explains Brooklyn painter Peter Schenck, who has first-hand-experience of both. Titling his latest show at Freight and Volume ‘Comedy Cellar,’ after the West Village club, Schenck creates colorful but tense scenarios in which various characters must make good under the spotlight. Here, a wide-eyed, robed painter grins wildly next to a giant scull and floating paint brushes. (On view on the Lower East Side through July 8th).
