{"id":13235,"date":"2026-08-12T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=13235"},"modified":"2026-08-12T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:45:05","slug":"immensity-of-blue-at-jane-lombard-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/12\/immensity-of-blue-at-jane-lombard-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Immensity of Blue&#8217; at Jane Lombard Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beach meets Japanese garden in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allanwexlerstudio.com\">Allan Wexler<\/a>\u2019s carefully combed sand installation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.janelombardgallery.com\/exhibitions\/91-immensity-of-blue-featuring-katherine-blackburne-adam-de-boer-howard-smith\/\">Jane Lombard Gallery<\/a> in Tribeca, where the summer group show \u2018Immensity of Blue\u2019 immerses gallery visitors in sunny summer scenes.\u00a0 Swapping out the traditional stones of a Japanese sand garden for a beach chair and other paraphernalia of a day at the shore, Wexler presents the beach as place of spiritual renewal; by abruptly slicing into a towel and chair where the platform\u2019s boundaries end, he knowingly proffers just a taste of this retreat.\u00a0 On the wall behind, <a href=\"https:\/\/geary.nyc\/artist\/ayse-wilson\/\">Ayse Wilson<\/a>\u2019s blue and pink figures gracefully plunge into a field of blue, their serene expressions suggesting happy tranquility.\u00a0 (On view in Tribeca through Aug 14<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2904px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/744348d6-8d9b-711c-a3f7-bf01653f4540.jpg\" alt=\"A ground of raked, textured sand sits before two paintings on the wall of female swimmers jumping into the water.\" width=\"2904\" height=\"3459\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of \u2018Immensity of Blue\u2019 at Jane Lombard Gallery. Foreground: Allan Wexler, (partial view) Raking the Beach: East Meets West, sand, plywood, beach chair fragment, towel fragment, cooler, 72 x 72 x 2 \u00bd inches, 2022. Background: Ayse Wilson, Blue Diving in and Pink Diving In, both acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach meets Japanese garden in Allan Wexler\u2019s carefully combed sand installation at Jane Lombard Gallery in Tribeca, where the summer group show \u2018Immensity of Blue\u2019 immerses gallery visitors in sunny summer scenes.\u00a0 Swapping out the traditional stones of a Japanese sand garden for a beach chair and other paraphernalia of a day at the shore, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/12\/immensity-of-blue-at-jane-lombard-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Immensity of Blue&#8217; at Jane Lombard 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":"","_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":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[11835,11836,13,11834,5246,1265,7567],"class_list":["post-13235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-allan-wexler","tag-ayse-wilson","tag-gallery","tag-immensity-of-blue","tag-jane-lombard","tag-summer-group-show","tag-tribeca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3rt","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","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=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13236,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions\/13236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}