Pieter Schoolwerth at Miguel Abreu Gallery

Pieter Schoolwerth, After Troy 6, oil acrylic, giclee print and oil pastel on canvas, 2012.
Pieter Schoolwerth, After Troy 6, oil acrylic, giclee print and oil pastel on canvas, 2012.

Painter Pieter Schoolwerth rewrites art history with a new series of paintings that remake 17th century French painter Simon Vouet’s 1635 ‘Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Troy.’  Here, Aeneas, his invalid father and his small son crowd into one dynamic figure (created from digital printout, drawn lines and thick areas of painting) in an urgent escape.  (At Miguel Abreu Gallery, Lower East Side, through Dec 22nd).