{"id":10505,"date":"2024-01-15T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10505"},"modified":"2025-02-09T20:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T01:46:47","slug":"friends-and-lovers-at-the-flag-art-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/friends-and-lovers-at-the-flag-art-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Friends and Lovers&#8217; at the FLAG Art Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visitors to Chelsea\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flagartfoundation.org\"> FLAG Art Foundation<\/a> encounter a wall of beautiful and colorful portraits by Billy Sullivan made over forty-five years at the entrance to FLAG\u2019s hugely enjoyable group show \u2018Friends and Lovers.\u2019\u00a0 Featuring work by over fifty artists and partly inspired by Alice Neel\u2019s expressive portraits (the show includes her 1952 painting of her son, Hartley), the show is a hotbed of better and lesser-known talent and includes work by artists who have lately shown standout work in New York.\u00a0 Among many highlights are Jerrell Gibbs\u2019 portrait of a dapper young man in a lively interior sitting before an image of Picasso\u2019s iconic dove and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubyskystiler.com\">Ruby Sky Stiler<\/a>\u2019s inclusive grouping of male, female and child models that exist in both 2-D and 3-D.\u00a0 (On view through Jan 20<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2744px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/11e0d9ec-1d62-0917-ac14-e0919ef113cd.jpg\" width=\"2744\" height=\"2441\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Sky Stiler, Rose Bathers, Baltic plywood, paint and hardware, 78 x 95 x 3 inches, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 2221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/29e64b78-491c-67c4-6f14-ca086d0425c4.jpg\" width=\"2221\" height=\"2637\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerrell Gibbs, Fly Black Boy, FLY, oil, oil stick on canvas, 72 x 60 \u00bc inches, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 4032px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/a21c02fd-cfbe-f5d9-c2e3-757bde08557c.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Sullivan, Various works, pastel, oil and watercolor on pastel and canvas, various dimensions, 1974 \u2013 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Chelsea\u2019s FLAG Art Foundation encounter a wall of beautiful and colorful portraits by Billy Sullivan made over forty-five years at the entrance to FLAG\u2019s hugely enjoyable group show \u2018Friends and Lovers.\u2019\u00a0 Featuring work by over fifty artists and partly inspired by Alice Neel\u2019s expressive portraits (the show includes her 1952 painting of her &hellip; 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