{"id":6121,"date":"2017-02-02T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=6121"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:17:25","slug":"gladys-nilsson-at-garth-greenan-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/gladys-nilsson-at-garth-greenan-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladys Nilsson, Not Easily Pared at Garth Greenan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 90s, an LA Times critic commented on the \u2018silly sort of dignity\u2019 possessed by the eccentric characters in Gladys Nilsson\u2019s large watercolors. The phrase perfectly characterizes these figures from the \u201880s, whose exaggerated physical characteristics and twisting bodies are equal parts grotesque and intriguing. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garthgreenan.com\/exhibitions\/gladys-nilsson-the-1980s\" target=\"_blank\">Garth Greenan Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea through Feb 18<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6122\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/gladys-nilsson-at-garth-greenan-gallery-2\/gladys_nilsson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gladys_nilsson-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Gladys Nilsson, Not Easily Pared, watercolor on paper, 40 x 60 inches, 1987.\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gladys_nilsson-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gladys_nilsson-1200x822.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gladys_nilsson.jpg 2026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladys Nilsson, Not Easily Pared, watercolor on paper, 40 x 60 inches, 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 90s, an LA Times critic commented on the \u2018silly sort of dignity\u2019 possessed by the eccentric characters in Gladys Nilsson\u2019s large watercolors. The phrase perfectly characterizes these figures from the \u201880s, whose exaggerated physical characteristics and twisting bodies are equal parts grotesque and intriguing. (At Garth Greenan Gallery in Chelsea through Feb &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/gladys-nilsson-at-garth-greenan-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gladys Nilsson, Not Easily Pared at Garth Greenan&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[2557,8,147,18,117,145,6799,9,13,432,3927,3926,6380,12,6798,856,33,16,171],"class_list":["post-6121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-80s","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-chicago-imagists","tag-contemporary","tag-gallery","tag-gallery-tour","tag-garth-greenan","tag-gladys-nilsson","tag-hairy-who","tag-new-york","tag-not-easily-pared","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-tour","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1AJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121","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=6121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11442,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions\/11442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}