{"id":9803,"date":"2022-05-04T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=9803"},"modified":"2022-05-03T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:47:50","slug":"roy-nachum-at-a-hug-from-the-art-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/04\/roy-nachum-at-a-hug-from-the-art-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Nachum at A Hug From the Art World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five huge photorealist portraits by Israeli-New Yorker Roy Nachum dominate the creatively titled Chelsea gallery \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahugfromtheartworld.com\/projects\">A Hug from the Art World.<\/a>\u2019 The sense of immediacy that their size generates in this compact space is amplified by expressionist painting on their surfaces.\u00a0 At first puzzling for the contrast between styles, an upstairs video reveals the paintings to be layered portraits, collaborations between Nachum and blind makers like Rosie Lopez, pictured here.\u00a0 Once explained, the portraits become fascinating expressions of self-representation.\u00a0 (On view through May 7<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/bceaa3c9-7528-3dd5-83e8-d2a7fe50f80e.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2438\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roy Nachum, Rosie Lopez, oil on canvas, 84 x 71 inches, 2015 \u2013 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five huge photorealist portraits by Israeli-New Yorker Roy Nachum dominate the creatively titled Chelsea gallery \u2018A Hug from the Art World.\u2019 The sense of immediacy that their size generates in this compact space is amplified by expressionist painting on their surfaces.\u00a0 At first puzzling for the contrast between styles, an upstairs video reveals the paintings &hellip; 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