What I really, really like about the gallery is the bench and the couch. Now, before you take that as an insult, let me explain.
Cunningham thinks the paintings she shows are worth looking at for a while and very often I agree.
Or you could sit there talking about the paintings with a friend as I once saw Philip and Dorothy Pearlstein doing at a show of Rackstraw Downes’ work.
“The Last Picture Show” made me sad—the downstairs couch was already gone. There are some old favorites in the show: Downes, Stanley Lewis. Some beauts by Graham Nickson, who I haven’t thought about for years (and now I will).
Also a wonderful painting by Judy Glantzman, Red Feet, that evokes The Coney Island Man and “What Me Worry?”, a sense of time passing and an unutterable grief.
Listed below are three links to reviews of Cunningham shows I have written for Talking Pictures and one to a review of Judy Glantzman, written originally for artcritical, now reprinted at Two Coats of Paint.
Thanks, Betty.
–CNQ
The New Yorkers: Susanna Heller, Karlis Rekevics and Rackstraw Downes
Eyes on the City: Drawings by Susanna Heller and Karlis Rekevics at New York Studio School, June 8 – July 16, 2023 / On-Site, Major paintings by Rackstraw Downes & Stanley Lewis at Betty Cunningham, April 29 – July 28, 2023
Stanley Lewis and The Mystery of the Sliced Canvas
Betty Cuningham Gallery, May 12-July 15, 2022
Rackstraw Downes: A Peek Behind the Curtain and Perspective (almost) without Orthogonal Lines
Betty Cunningham Gallery, September 5 – October 14, 2018
