{"id":8269,"date":"2019-07-23T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8269"},"modified":"2019-07-18T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T11:33:37","slug":"graham-nickson-in-summer-at-betty-cuningham-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/graham-nickson-in-summer-at-betty-cuningham-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Nickson in \u2018Summer!\u2019 at Betty Cuningham Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Studio School dean Graham Nickson\u2019s beach paintings have been described as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/137335\/beer-with-a-painter-graham-nickson\/\">extreme, impenetrable, and haunting<\/a>\u201d for their isolated figures inhabiting landscapes pared down to horizontal bands of color.\u00a0 Here, a lone figure\u2019s ambiguous activity (Is she shielding her face from the sun?\u00a0 Reading a giant book?) lends mystery and import to a leisure activity that might otherwise be overlooked.\u00a0 (On view in \u2018Summer!\u2019 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettycuninghamgallery.com\/exhibitions\/summer\">Betty Cuningham Gallery<\/a> on the Lower East Side through August 2<sup>nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8270\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8270\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8270\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8270\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/graham_nickson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/graham_nickson.jpg 1938w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/graham_nickson-150x148.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/graham_nickson-406x400.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graham Nickson, Untitled from Bather Series, acrylic on canvas in artist\u2019s frame, 48 x 48 inches, c. 1980.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Studio School dean Graham Nickson\u2019s beach paintings have been described as \u201cextreme, impenetrable, and haunting\u201d for their isolated figures inhabiting landscapes pared down to horizontal bands of color.\u00a0 Here, a lone figure\u2019s ambiguous activity (Is she shielding her face from the sun?\u00a0 Reading a giant book?) lends mystery and import to a leisure &hellip; 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