Tag: Pennsylvania

Hilary Berseth at 11 Rivington

How to create a universal art? Pennsylvania-based artist Hilary Berseth drew seven faces contorted by common human emotions (surprise and fear seen here) on the inside of five Platonic solids, shapes that Plato felt were key to constructing all around us. Slowly spinning in the gallery, the shapes intensify each emotion and invite a viewer to compare each to his/her own emotional state. (At Lower East Side gallery 11 Rivington through Jan 17th). 

Hilary Berseth, Installation view at 11 Rivington, December 2014.

E.M. Saniga at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects

IT professor and artist E.M. Saniga explains that his professional focus – mathematical model building – and his passion for painting are not so dissimilar, both involving abstracting reality in inventive ways. Saniga’s recent series at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects was inspired by objects unearthed in an 18th century Quaker home and items from museum collections and the imagination. (On the Lower East Side through Nov 16th)

E.M. Saniga, ‘Early Shoes and Quaker Moths,’ oil on panel, 2012-2014.

Jeff Landman at Tracy Williams, Ltd.

Inspired by early Christian and Mesopotamian building practices that imbued built structures with spiritual meaning, young Brooklyn-based artist Jeff Landman transformed timbers from a Pennsylvania barn into furniture-like platforms for transcendent experience for his first solo show at Tracy Williams, Ltd.  (In Chelsea through Feb 22nd).  

Jeff Landman, installation view of ‘Working on a Building,’ with ‘Bed,’ white oak, linen, 2013 in the foreground.  Tracy Williams, Ltd., Feb 2014.