by shantytowndesign | Jun 7, 2016 | Exhibits, Press
The Phatory is pleased to announce a new installation in the gallery’s window by Joe Lewis entitled Mutant Monkey Business which will be on view starting Sunday, May 1st, through Friday, May 22nd. All are welcome to the unveiling, Sunday, May 1st, from 5 -7:00. As “an...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
The Elusive Eagle: Charles McGill and the Anti-Trope By Joe Lewis “Golf is a chronic and progressive illness. Once afflicted, all bets are off. You can bet the farm on that!” Anonymous circa 2016 Classically trained in the figurative painting tradition, a superb...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
Samantha Fields at Kim Light/LightBox Art in America, Oct, 2007 by Joe Lewis [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Environmental drama of Shakespearean proportions is the best way to describe the unrestrained atmospheric landscapes that constituted Samantha Fields’s major...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
Rifka Milder at Merge Art in America, May, 2008 by Joe Lewis Rifka Milder is an oil painter’s painter. Her first major solo exhibition, this show featured abstractions of New York City’s green spaces and architecture as seen reflected in urban bodies of...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
Kim MacConnel at Rosamund Felsen Art in America, May, 2006 by Joe Lewis Kim MacConnel’s new series of 28 small pseudo-origami and watercolor collages focus on a seemingly endless number of American foreign policy and military disasters in Africa, the Middle...