Kate Thorpe

Art

Figure Is to Background as Representation Is to Model: Neil Gall’s 'Cut-Outs, Offcuts and Holes'

In Neil Gall’s newest paintings, which are currently being exhibited at David Nolan, there is a powerfully coercive interplay between figure and background that veers between the unstable and the terrifying.

Art

Painted Dirt and Folded Canvas: Elena del Rivero’s 'Letter from Home'

As one enters Elena del Rivero’s exhibition, Letter from Home: a rendez-vous, at the Josee Bienvenu Gallery (April 16 – May 23, 2015), three 72-by-72 inch canvases hang in folds, like towels on hooks, on the center wall.