PHOTOPLUSEXPO 2019 in NYC with my Art and Business Students and prof. Hausbrandt

Chelsea Galleries in New York City with my Painting Predators from Kean University , Pace; Hauser and Wirth ; De Buck; Gagosian ; Boesky; Goodman; Marks; Sikkema Jenkins, Zwirner, 303 and many more

Chelsea Galleries in New York City with my Painting Predators from Kean University part 2

Chelsea Galleries in New York City with my Painting Predators from Kean University part 1

Steve DeFrank solo show Opening at SVA Flatiron Gallery!

Steve is one of the most talented artist and teachers I’ve ever met. He changed my life forever with his energetic brilliance, with his funny but deeply thoughtful criticism, and with his friendship. BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the SVA Flatiron Project Space present an exhibition of recent works by faculty member and alumnus Steve DeFrank (MFA 1990 Fine Arts). A reception celebrating the artist, his work and his extraordinary teaching will be held on Thursday, October 10, 6:00 – 8:00pm. The exhibition will run through November 1. 

DeFrank has prepared the following statement about his work:

“I’m a queer man making queer paintings in a post-gay art world. We are at a crossroads with the heterosexualization of gay culture. Assimilation dampens identity; the shift of societies (some, not all) to integrate gay folks and their culture is a loss as well as a gain. There is a cost for having a more homogeneous world, a more homogenous art world, a blandness that feels very dry. Queer demands to be seen.

“The paintings share a dandified staging, a restrained fantastical flamboyance, with a modernist sensibility.  I am synthesizing abstraction and a cartoony queer comic figuration. This dualism in the paintings contributes something that is secondary to the work but something it couldn’t exist without. That tension keeps me on the edge.”

The exhibition will include an overview of the artist’s work on the window monitors. For more information please email vcs@sva.edu.

My awesome Painting Class visited tonight the Ghost Towns and the Memories that Haunt us

Kean University Displays Haunting Art Exhibit | rlsmedia.com

UNION, N.J. — A new art exhibition at the Nancy Dryfoos Gallery at Kean University explores the issue of loss as reflected in abandoned ghost towns such as the former California gold rush town of Bodie, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, and Pripyat, Ukraine near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site. The exhibit, Ghost Towns, Or, the Memories that Haunt Us, was curated by
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Ghost Towns and the Memories that Haunt us; Bennet in British Columbia by Joanna M. Wezyk , Drawing_Painting on Yupo with the Alcohol Inks

Nancy Dryfoos Gallery Open daily till December 18th!

Ghost Towns and the Memories that Haunt us Opening photos TBC

Ghost Towns and the Memories that Haunt us! Opening Tonight!!!