This was the title that caught my eye as I was zipping through Moynihan Hall in Penn Station Which is in Manhattan NYC. The artworks in the glass case which encompassed the exhibit stopped me in my tracks.
When I discovered that the exhibit was based on art that was created in moleskin Journals I could not resist. I had to take in this moment and document it so I could share it with you. These are some of my favorite pieces from this dope ass exhibit.
ZOFi
New York, USA
Technicolor, 2022
The human eye - a pool of vivid colors reflecting, refracting, and dispersing the visible spectrum of the human experience
#repost @claytopia675 Clayton Schiff (Brooklyn, New York City, USA, 1987-). First image is Juice Box, 2020, Oil on canvas, 16 × 16 in / 40.6 × 40.6 cm. Second image is Street, 2021, Oil on canvas, 50 × 46 in / 127 × 116.8 cm. Third image is Hallway Romance, 2022, oil on canvas, 46 x 46 in. Thanks to @56henry.nyc via @theicygays for the tip. I appreciate the canine representation in Schiff's work.
Agnes Tait, Skating in Central Park, 1934. Oil on canvas.
Agnes Tait had long wanted to make a large, festive painting of winter revelers in Central Park, but without a patron she could not take on this project. When the Public Works of Art Project gave her support in the winter of 1933-1934, the artist had her opportunity. As skaters and sledders flocked to the frozen lake and snowy slopes of Central Park, Tait joined them to sketch the winter fun. Then she retreated to her studio to make her painting.
Tait showed the park in late afternoon as the Manhattan sky began to blush and the street lamps to glow, but skating and sledding were still in full swing. Once she had the landscape painted, Tait added figures in groups to create a colorful pattern against the snow and ice. The dark branches of the bare trees make a more subtle design against the white snow and mist and the golden sky. Around the ends of tree branches and in patches along the snowbanks, Tait painted areas of gray into which she drew snow-covered twigs and grasses by scraping away the gray paint with the end of her paintbrush.