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Friday, Apr 2, half-dozen-8 pm: Owen James Gallery
David Sandlin | Belfaust: Paintings, screenprints, books

The artist will be in attendance at the gallery Saturday April 3rd (from 2-5 PM) to meet with visitors and discuss his work. The following is a preview. Above: David Sandlin, Belfast Bus, acrylic on canvas.

From the late 1960s until 1998, Northern Ireland suffered through The Troubles: an era of severe political and sectarian violence, which was specially brutal in the cities of Derry and Belfast. Information technology emerged from a tormented national history as a telephone call for more civil rights past the area'due south Catholic minority. At its center was, and is, a bitter contend over whether Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom or rejoin Republic of ireland as a united democracy. Born in the late 1950s, artist David Sandlin grew upwardly in Belfast during the 1960s and 70s, as the violence drastically increased. Sandlin's family was Protestant, just siblings had married into Catholic families. Due to continued threats Sandlin's family unit moved to rural Alabama in the The states.

Removed from the ceremonious state of war in Northern Republic of ireland, Sandlin plant himself living in a part of a divided America where religious, political, cultural and racial divisions recalled conditions in his homeland. These burning, dual realities take remained central to the artist's piece of work, in which his narratives unfold through paintings, drawings, screenprints, large-calibration screenprinted books and comic books. In these, politicians and religious leaders alike are cast equally serpent-oil salesmen. The devil works behind the scenes, reveling in the chaos he creates. All the while sinners and innocents akin try to notice a style to persevere.

Sandlin says, "The Troubles 'ended' in the peace treaty of 1998. Here in America, our civil state of war concluded in 1865. And however, the root causes of both these vehement capacity lack sufficient resolution. History is key to the time to come, and we are possibly at a turning point once again."  As the printing release concludes, recently, both Brexit and the Trump Assistants have tapped into veins of angry nationalism and populism.  Equally they grow they threaten to awaken the havoc and violence of the by. David Sandlin'south paintings are reflections on history by ane who has lived, and suffered, through information technology, not just studied information technology.
David Sandlin | Belfaust, April 2-June five at Owen James Gallery. 59 Wooster Street, NY, NY Info

Friday, April 2, half dozen-ix pm: Established Gallery
Sean Qualls | Magic Doesn't Sleep

While all but one of the paintings in Magic Doesn't Sleep were created in the final 6 months, they all build on themes and concepts that Sean Qualls has been working with over the past fourteen years. The subjects of these works are mostly people from history, oft obscure figures amalgamated through his lens of imagination. Characters from literature like Trivial Blackness Sambo and Uncle Tom have also go recurring figures in the series.

In all cases, Sean's intention is to reveal a greater truth most his subjects by reframing their stories in order to gratis them from the constraints of conventional narratives. Alongside these figurative pieces, the recent works of graphic patterns critique our relationship to perfectionism. By creating these imperfect geographic paintings, the artist hopes to reveal how idiosyncrasies and imperfections make people and things more attractive, not less.
Sean Qualls | Magic Doesn't Slumber. Established Gallery, 758 6th Avenue, Flatbush, Queens, NY Info

Closing day, Sunday, April 4: Daily 9:00am-6:00pm Socrates Sculpture Park
Monuments Now, Office II

Don't miss the final week to see Parts II & III of theMONUMENTS At present exhibition! Part II,Call and Response, comprises x monument projects by the Park'due south 2020 Creative person Fellows. And Role Three,The Side by side Generation, features a monument installation and 'zine realized collectively by loftier school students.

Daniel Bejar'southward Monument for Immigrants (In Advance of an Water ice Raid)', to a higher place plays with ideas of visibility both in terms of public monuments and human rights every bit it pertains to citizenship. In response to recent raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Water ice), this hollowed out faux rock, equipped with a burner cell phone, h2o and legal information, provides a utilitarian escape hatch for undocumented people to enter and safely hide from their tormentors.

Like the statue of Liberty, the plaque on Bejar's monument features a poem. This ane, past Rupi Kaur reads, "They have no thought what it's like to lose home at the risk of never finding home again to accept your entire life carve up between two lands and go the bridge between ii countries."
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Photo by Nicholas Knight Studio; and Sara Morgan, courtesy Socrates Sculpture Park.
Monuments At present, Park Ii. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island Metropolis, NY. Info

Continuing at Garth Greenan Gallery
Derek Boshier | Alchemy Alchemy

David Bowie said that the work of Derek Boshier "cascades over the decades and is utterly existent and convincing." At historic period 83, Boshier [who did album art for Bowie'south 1979 Lodger] is at once a living legend and an unsung hero of postwar British fine art.

A working-class kid from Portsmouth on track to have up the trade of butchery, Boshier got himself into the Royal College of Art at just the correct fourth dimension, condign, along with his classmates, David Hockney and Peter Blake, among the avatars of British Pop art. His 1961Special K—an eye-grabbing riff on the familiar cereal box—made a splash around the same time Hockney was doing his Typhoo tea, Ed Ruscha his Sun-Maid raisins, and Andy Warhol his Campbell's soup.

ANew York Times critic called him a "supersonic Parsifal," and in the intervening 35 years, Boshier, peripatetic and protean, has jetted his way from London to Republic of india, to Texas, to Los Angeles, where he lives today. Boshier'south paintings, drawings, and graphics—with their jittery line, raucous colour, and rueful humor—have ranged similarly, unpredictable to the final. As one observer noted, approvingly, Boshier "has always been nothing if non inconsistent."
Derek Boshier | Abracadabra Alchemy at Garth Greenan Gallery, 545 West twenty ^th Street, NY, NY Info

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