{"id":9755,"date":"2022-04-01T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=9755"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T22:07:14","slug":"walton-ford-at-gagosian-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/01\/walton-ford-at-gagosian-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Walton Ford at Gagosian Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the tiger in this prep study for Walton Ford\u2019s painting Chay, now on view in his solo show at <a href=\"https:\/\/gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/2022\/walton-ford\/\">Gagosian Gallery<\/a>, looks ferocious, it represents an animal that is injured and seconds away from finding relief. Tragic misunderstandings or false assumptions about animals throughout history inform Ford\u2019s large watercolor, gouache and ink drawings.\u00a0 In the finished painting (also included in the show), a tiger leaps into a pool of water, ropes trailing from his body in a reenactment from a Vietnamese folk tale about how a farmer\u2019s trickery results in the tiger\u2019s stripes.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through April 23<sup>rd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/1ef8d2c6-1158-4581-5c02-831cb7c8d434.jpg\" width=\"2145\" height=\"2108\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walton Ford, Tiger Study for Chay, watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the tiger in this prep study for Walton Ford\u2019s painting Chay, now on view in his solo show at Gagosian Gallery, looks ferocious, it represents an animal that is injured and seconds away from finding relief. Tragic misunderstandings or false assumptions about animals throughout history inform Ford\u2019s large watercolor, gouache and ink drawings.\u00a0 In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/01\/walton-ford-at-gagosian-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walton Ford at Gagosian 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":[9773,117,9774,1348,3588,3938,2919,3031,171],"class_list":["post-9755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-chay","tag-chelsea","tag-folk-tale","tag-gagosian","tag-stripes","tag-tiger","tag-vietnam","tag-walton-ford","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2xl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755","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=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9757,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions\/9757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}