{"id":9623,"date":"2022-01-08T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T21:01:37","slug":"cinga-samson-at-flag-art-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/08\/cinga-samson-at-flag-art-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinga Samson at Flag Art Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African artist Cinga Samson complicates the act of looking in paintings that are challenging to see. The muted palettes and crepuscular lighting of his individual portraits and figure groups not only disguise his subjects, but aim to create a sense of having intruded on a private scene.\u00a0 Samson\u2019s recent body of work, on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/flagartfoundation.org\/exhibitions\/5236\/\">Flag Art Foundation<\/a> in Chelsea, features young men like this figure, whose remarkable eyes disrupt easy engagement and suggest moments of looking inward.\u00a0 Each painting is a meditation on mortality, the flower in this piece acting as a symbol of transience.\u00a0 (On view through Jan 15<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 \u00a0Masks, social distancing and proof of vaccination required).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9624\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9624\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9624\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9624\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cinga_samson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cinga_samson.jpg 1852w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cinga_samson-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cinga_samson-312x400.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cinga Samson, Nontshonshi 1, oil on canvas, 18 x 13 \u00be x 1 inches, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African artist Cinga Samson complicates the act of looking in paintings that are challenging to see. The muted palettes and crepuscular lighting of his individual portraits and figure groups not only disguise his subjects, but aim to create a sense of having intruded on a private scene.\u00a0 Samson\u2019s recent body of work, on view &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/08\/cinga-samson-at-flag-art-foundation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cinga Samson at Flag Art Foundation&#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":[8,117,9654,4531,9656,6198,850,849,16,9655],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-cinga-samson","tag-flag-art-foundation","tag-nontshonshi","tag-not-for-profit","tag-portrait","tag-south-africa","tag-tour","tag-twilight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2vd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623","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=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9625,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}