Tag: college

Michael Eastman at Edwynn Houk Gallery

Known for photographing opulent buildings from Italy to Havana, Michael Eastman’s latest series focuses on century-old neoclassical interiors in Buenos Aires. This slightly less extravagant but no less gorgeous college stairwell is the picture of tranquility in cool, blue and green-toned tile. That it is without students suggests timing or an oblique reference to something more sinister in Argentina’s past. (On view at Edwynn Houk Gallery in midtown through Jan 20th).

Michael Eastman, Colegio Passage, Buenos Aires, chromogenic print, 48 x 60 inches, 2017.

Andy Warhol in ‘Pearlstein/Warhol/Cantor’ at Betty Cunningham

Sixteen years before his solo debut at LA’s Ferus Gallery, Andy Warhol was just another art student at Carnegie Tech. Here, the whimsical character, if not the elegantly wavering line of his later commercial illustrations is prefigured in a student assignment from 1946. (At Betty Cunningham Gallery on the Lower East Side through Feb 13th).

 Andy Warhol, Kids on Swings, tempera on board, 31 x 26 7/8 inches, 1946.

Paul Winstanley at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

British artist Paul Winstanley’s paintings of empty art studio spaces in colleges around the UK are improbable subject matter for such pleasingly still, light-infused minimal compositions. Come September, they’ll fill with bodies, activity and color but at the moment, the tranquility is a pleasure. (At Mitchell-Innes & Nash in Chelsea through July 19th).

Paul Winstanley, Art School 40, oil on panel, 56 5/8 x 37 3/4inches, 2015.