{"id":12538,"date":"2025-07-28T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12538"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:39:53","slug":"dana-james-in-friends-in-both-places-at-nicelle-beauchene-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/28\/dana-james-in-friends-in-both-places-at-nicelle-beauchene-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana James in \u2018Friends in Both Places,\u2019 at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking its title from Mark Twain\u2019s comment about heaven and hell that he had \u2018friends in both places,\u2019 the artwork in <a href=\"https:\/\/nicellebeauchene.com\/exhibitions\/friends-in-both-places\/#bottom-copy\">Nicelle Beauchene Gallery<\/a>\u2019s summer group exhibition ranges from the sublime to the nightmarish in theme. <a href=\"https:\/\/danajamesart.com\">Dana James<\/a>\u2019 painting \u2018The Sandbox\u2019 would seem to fall into the former category with its organic, curving forms and light palette, though darker areas and the contrast in two conjoined canvases between smoother and more gestural abstraction adds complexity to this enjoyable canvas.\u00a0 (On view through Aug 15<sup>th<\/sup>. Note summer hours.)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1824px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/03fe7f2c-4ce1-3ad5-acfe-eb0c6dd7c9fd.jpg\" alt=\"Abstract image of curving forms.\" width=\"1824\" height=\"2886\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana James, The Sandbox, oil, acrylic and pigment on canvas, diptych overall 48 x 30 inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking its title from Mark Twain\u2019s comment about heaven and hell that he had \u2018friends in both places,\u2019 the artwork in Nicelle Beauchene Gallery\u2019s summer group exhibition ranges from the sublime to the nightmarish in theme. Dana James\u2019 painting \u2018The Sandbox\u2019 would seem to fall into the former category with its organic, curving forms and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/28\/dana-james-in-friends-in-both-places-at-nicelle-beauchene-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dana James in \u2018Friends in Both Places,\u2019 at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[693,11424,11425,13,2401,2428,33,7567],"class_list":["post-12538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-abstract-painting","tag-dana-james","tag-friends-in-both-places","tag-gallery","tag-group-show","tag-nicelle-beauchene","tag-painting","tag-tribeca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3ge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12540,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}