{"id":8417,"date":"2019-11-04T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2019-11-02T06:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T10:46:41","slug":"karl-wirsum-at-derek-eller-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/04\/karl-wirsum-at-derek-eller-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Wirsum at Derek Eller Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Imagist Karl Wirsum\u2019s gender ambiguous, robotic characters are an odd mix of human and alien, bionic and freighted by imperfect human bodies.\u00a0 This character \u2013 a standout in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.derekeller.com\/exhibitions\/karl-wirsum4\">Derek Eller Gallery<\/a>\u2019s showcase of 50 years of Wirsum\u2019s drawing &#8211; has proportions calculated to puzzle and amaze, from tiny eyes and little apple core mouth that contrast a complex and angular nose to broad shoulders that set off a pair of small feet. (On view on the Lower East Side through Nov 10<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8418\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8418\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8418\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8418\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/karl_wirsum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/karl_wirsum.jpg 1928w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/karl_wirsum-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/karl_wirsum-319x400.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karl Wirsum, Lambs Cloth Muscle Toppsie from the Land of the Silly Forgottens, color pencil on board, c. 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Imagist Karl Wirsum\u2019s gender ambiguous, robotic characters are an odd mix of human and alien, bionic and freighted by imperfect human bodies.\u00a0 This character \u2013 a standout in Derek Eller Gallery\u2019s showcase of 50 years of Wirsum\u2019s drawing &#8211; has proportions calculated to puzzle and amaze, from tiny eyes and little apple core mouth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/04\/karl-wirsum-at-derek-eller-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Karl Wirsum at Derek Eller 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_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":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,4933,265,882,6380,8624,431,8627,10,8626,8625,16],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-chicago-imagist","tag-derek-eller-gallery","tag-drawing","tag-hairy-who","tag-karl-wirsum","tag-lower-east-side","tag-musclebound","tag-sculpture","tag-silly-forgottens","tag-toppsie","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2bL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417","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=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8419,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}