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[intheartworld]

#nohrahaimegallery #art9comics #commedesgarcons #ChelseaGalleries #intheArtworld #sculpture #drawings #comicArt #painting #coronavirusMADNESS (at Nohra Haime Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9vMIj6lz5z/?igshid=itipfl1w3srx

[ricmdesign]

My room at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House 2011. Beautiful art work energizes the room. Damien Hirst and Sofia Vari are amongst the artists featured in the room. #richardmishaandesign #litterickyrecommends #nohrahaimegallery #damienhirst #kipsbayshowhouse (at New York, New York)

[trascapades]

🎨🖤📷#ArtIsAWeapon Dominga - #artist 📸 @rubyrumiearte 🇨🇴 Reposted from @nohrahaimegallery ... ... "#RubyRumié's work includes #painting, #sculpture, #photography, #video and #installation. She develops projects based on injustice and psychology, and the impact of modern life in the daily lives of common people. Rumié focuses her research on the locals of Getsemaní, a historical neighborhood of Cartagena de Indias, where she lives. Getsemaní is where she finds her conceptual material, analyzing the impact of gentrification and progress, and suggesting a new role for the artist: that in which there is not only an aesthetic and poetic revelation, but also a search of how to manage social and psychological problems through creation." #weavingstreets #TraScapades #AfroColumbian #Grace #Beauty #BlackLivesMatter #AfricanDiaspora #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBT7XHvAvWy/?igshid=i4tu9ueruage

[vicsterhao]

Going into the weekend like.....#tgif #friyay #weekend #weekendvibes #friday #nofilter #latergram #lesleydill #instaartist #instaart #art #sculpture #gallery #galleryhopping #vicsterinnyc @nohrahaimegallery @lesleydill1 (at Nohra Haime Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtpGqD3nBT0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xyrs48rihjoh

[tespisnow]

5/ La obra de #LesleyDill se exhibe en la @nohrahaimegallery en #Chelsea! Les doy un paseo por la muestra con mis fotos ;) #nyc #latinx #photography #nycphotographer #art (at Chelsea, Manhattan)

[max-art]

Adam Straus Retrospective at Nohra Haime and Adelson Galleries

Over the past 25 years Adam Straus has maintained a vision through landscape that has paid homage to the art historical traditions while being poignantly contemporary in pointing to concerns in a late 20th and 21st century world. Although trained in art, Straus is really a self taught painter. Rather than using a paint by numbers technique to learn, he literally painted over photographs until he felt accomplished enough to dispense with them and let his own style flourish. The essay, by Amei Wallach, in the magnificent catalogue that accompanies the exhibition, is most comprehensive. Therefore I’m going to concentrate my comments around Straus’s works that speak to the changing environment. 

From the outset, he was fiercely aware of environmental concerns and employed his biting sense of humor to accentuate the issues.

In the 1991 painting “Exodus”, he epitomizes the Hudson River School notion of the sublime. Rather than reflecting the 19th century view of a miraculously potent sunset as seen on one of Albert Bierstadt’s paintings

Straus does just the opposite. The nocturnal scene is mysteriously lit up as cars  make their way as fast as possible away from the light. The real tipoff is that Straus frames the piece in lead as if to try to protect the viewer from the calamity inside the canvas. The irony is that lead, itself, is so toxic. For many years, almost all of Straus’ paintings were encased in lead and thus became a kind of signature element in his work that also reflected his sculptural training.

 Nuclear devastation has been a concern since the inception of atomic power. Mark Rothko and the other Abstract Expressionists could not help but let their anxiety seep into their abstract paintings in the mid 1950′s when the first H bomb tests took place.

I have actually stood in a gallery space surrounded by Rothko’s red/orange and yellow paintings and felt the heat become palpable. Straus’ Exodus gives a more distant perspective where presumably the devastation hasn't yet arrived but escape appears pretty futile.

Often Straus likes to pay homage to artists who he has admired. Such was the case with the 1999 work, Toxic Runoff: Waterlillies

Aside for the obvious connections to Monet, Straus uses subtly darker colors indicating the change in the water quality during the last 100 years, giving pause for thought about what has happened and what we are doing to the beautiful Giverney gardens.

During the recent election, Jill Stein ran for President on the Green Party line. She managed to pull votes, most likely from Hilary Clinton in the crucial swing states including Michigan where several years ago the water supply of Flint became totally toxic. Adam’s 1994 painting, Detroit, is like an uncanny premonition.

When Straus was living in Florida, he ran for the US Senate as a write in candidate because he didn't believe either of the major candidates responded sufficiently to the environment. His campaign became a performance piece where he enlisted his friends to do his only campaigning by going around and stenciling “"Straus for Senate”  on individual sheets of toilet paper in public bathrooms. To his astonishment, he garnered more than 3000 votes which was more than the margin of victory for Straus’ least favorable candidate. He learned a lesson that Jill Stein could have benefited from as she received around 1% of the vote in the key battleground states which was more than the margin of victory that determined the next President. Now, like Straus in Florida, we all have to lament Trump’s choice for the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, a notorious anti climate changer, who might as well change the department’s name to the Environmental Destruction Agency.

As early as 1994, Adam Straus made paintings about oil leaks. By the turn of the 21st century, oil spills and leaks were feared to be among the most devestating disasters to the seas and coastlines. In his 2002 painting Oil Slick, his pun about oil paint juxtaposed with the slick portends of our surreal reality. Besides the very real hazards of off shore drilling, the vast amount of oil in Iraq and the surrounding area provided at least one motive for the ill fated war culminating in Trump’s bizarre campaign statement that “"at least we should have kept the oil”. And his administration is headed in a direction with Rex Tillerson as potential Secretary of State at the helm that might be renamed US Oil and Gas.

No area involving our changing environment has eluded the wit and painting prowess of Adam Straus. In 2001, he created a series about global warming as he had read that Mt Everest was shrinking because the snow on it was melting. Entitled Summit: Melting,

the painting shows the majestic peak leaking snow. Ironically, the title is one small letter away from being “"Summit: Meeting” which is what it has taken to move the countries of the world to respond at all. This kind of exotic look at a far off distant mountain reflects Straus’ keen understanding how artists, in the Romantic tradition, have always sought out remote images to pursue the sublime. 

Casper David Friedrich’s The Polar Sea and Frederick Edwin Church’s Iceberg are 2 examples from different sides of the Atlantic. But in these examples it is the overwhelming force of nature that is visually experienced rather than nature compromised.

In his most recent work, Straus has incorporated technology, partially based on the influence of his son, while continuing to address increasing environmental concerns. In his very recent Glitch series, he takes an app that causes a “glitch” in his image and then repaints it incorporating the glitch.

In Glitch: Antarctica, he finds the ultimate remote seascape which remains remote to direct viewing, but through technology becomes accessible yet we don't seem to really get the message.

Finally, taking from an app like Instagram, he has created the image Shared Air 

which recall the 19th century cloud studies by John Constable

But for Straus Shared Air is a way of making the deadly serious pun that sharing, in the Instagram sense, doesnt tell the story of really sharing polluted air around the planet.

For a quarter century, Adam Straus has been sharing his vision in landscape, and what has saved it from being nihilistic, is his profound painterly style in conjunction with his ever present wit.

[chaxicollective]

Tea and Food

I recently returned from a trip to NYC. I wasn’t there strictly for tea, and even though I was in town during the Coffee and Tea festival in Brooklyn, I was not able to attend (but I did see everyone’s pics!). Instead was working on this art project with Valerie Hird. If you happen to be in the City, head to the Nohra Haime Gallery on 5th ave - 7th floor of the Crown Building to see the tree.

Although I was primarily in town to work, I did find time to time to visit lots of tea places, some I’ve been to before and some that I didn’t know about or hadn’t opened the last time I was in the city.

I met my friend Ben at @teadrunknyc and shared some delicious Shui Xian (I believe) and also some Sheng puer from Jinnuoshan. Later in the weeks I popped into Ippodo which was only a 15 minute walk (for me) from the gallery. I picked up some tea and got some Usucha to go. I also showed the person in the shop pictures of my teahut. He smiled, said “very nice” and gave a slight bow.

New to my this trip were T-shopny and Té Company. T-shop I heard about from @oasisteagarden I believe. This little shop in the back of a building that also has a psychic in it, is a hidden gem of tea culture in NYC. The teas are really tasty, Theresa is quite knowledgeable and the service model is also unique. You have three options of service with three different price points. first option is to order a tea that she prepares for you in pitchers and you can get more water when you’re done for $5. next option is to make it yourself in chaxi/gongfu fashion where you have a thermos of water to yourself for $15 and the 3rd and perhaps most interesting option (which I did not have time to try) is to sit at the brewstation and drink tea with her. This gives you the ability to ask any questions about the tea as it’s being made as well as the option to share tea even if you happen to go alone. This option is $10 - very reasonable especially for how good the tea is. it is also worth noting that each subsequent to you add to each preparation method gets a discount (so if you sit with her and drink two teas, you would pay $15 and three teas would be $20) this doesn’t apply to the first method in which each tea would just cost $5 Next time i’m in the city I will go back, sit with Theresa and whoever else might be there and just geek out on tea talk. I’ve only had 4 of the teas so obviously there is much tasting to be done.

These experiences were lovely and the tea was yummy but the most memorable also happens to be the newest. Té Company in the west village is beyond a hidden gem (whatever that means) Elena and Frederico have something really special going on here. A small shop just off 7th ave holds mighty treasure in the form of delicious tea and food. My dear friend Lauren (who also happened to be my gracious host during my stay in NY) told me about this place a few months ago right after they opened. Lauren spoke highly of me so when I was introduced it was like Elena already knew me! “Oh you’re the tea guy, the one with the teahut” We sat down for tea, ordered some Li Shan, Hong Shui and also an aged oolong from ‘85. All were fantastic, the Li Shan buttery and floral, Hong Shui , smooth and sweet and the ‘85 a nice dried fruit and leathery quality I love about aged oolong. Now these teas would be great in any shop but combined with the knowledge Elena has and the information about each tea (roast, oxidation, cultivar etc) it makes the teas more special. As we sipped our three teas, Frederico, the Chef, came in with his prepped food for the day. The “Kitchen” of the shop is not meant for full scale cooking like that of a conventional restaurant so like any good chef, he adapts his cooking and preparation to his environment. Sourcing many ingredients from the Union Square market, He prepares a daily menu that often has Tortilla with some of the best olive oil I’ve ever consumed. sometimes there’s cured meats or cheese and sometimes a soup. The bread he makes is also fantastic, Lauren is plotting to get some of the Mother dough if Frederico lets her... Our last visit included an elegant stack of baby radishes with an almond paste and shaved horseradish that was all actually quite sweet. I’m not sure of the individual prices for the food items as we basically just told them to keep bringing us food until we were full. To top off the meal and tea experience, there are incredible Pineapple linzer cookies that Saveur magazine just called best in the city!

So this was what a typical visit to the shop looks like -  now for the extra special part. During my stay, Lauren had a birthday and her fiancee, Josh, treated us to a 6 course, 5 tea private dinner that was so memorable and yet also I can’t remember what all the delicious food was.. I may have over consumed that night... I do remember all the teas though. Bai Hao, “Honeyed Evergreen” “Graceful Hill” Hong Yu, and finally a Muzha Tie Guan Yin that paired perfectly with dessert at the end of the night. Elena explained the teas to us, some history as well as processing differences for those at the table unfamiliar with the world of cha. Helping her serve and explain was Jeff Ruiz, a tea curator for some of the cities more tea-venturous establishments like Atera. Between each tea pairing, Frederico would come explain the magic he plated before us only for us to drool, inhale it all too quickly and then forget what we had just eaten like our taste buds were so overwhelmed we just blacked it out.

Now even though this was a unique birthday experience, there is hope! Té Company has monthly dinners as well as tea tastings you can book with Elena. Both are great ways to experience all the wonderful things they do at the shop. I can’t recommend this place enough so if you are in the city, you must go.

[neesh-art]

Flashe #painting by Carole Seborovski #nohrahaimegallery (at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair)

[partygirlrachel]

#gregglouis at #nohrahaimegallery #pulseartfair (at Metropolitan Pavilion Events & Production Services)

[intheartworld]

#nohrahaimegallery #intheArtworld (at Nohra Haime Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ZuGfcl5p2/?igshid=1errgzobha43v

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🎨🖤📷#ArtIsAWeapon Dominga - #artist 📸@rubyrumiearte 🇨🇴 Reposted from @nohrahaimegallery ... ... "#RubyRumié's work includes #painting, #sculpture, #photography, #video and #installation. She develops projects based on injustice and psychology, and the impact of modern life in the daily lives of common people. Rumié focuses her research on the locals of Getsemaní, a historical neighborhood of Cartagena de Indias, where she lives. Getsemaní is where she finds her conceptual material, analyzing the impact of gentrification and progress, and suggesting a new role for the artist: that in which there is not only an aesthetic and poetic revelation, but also a search of how to manage social and psychological problems through creation." #weavingstreets #TraScapades #AfroColumbian #Grace #Beauty #BlackLivesMatter #AfricanDiaspora #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBT59eOAWLn/?igshid=jl17f1x3ldjl

[vicsterhao]

#mood #rainysunday #instadaily #sunday #latergram #gallery #galleryhopping #vicsterinnyc @nohrahaimegallery (at Nohra Haime Gallery)

[tespisnow]

2/ La obra de #LesleyDill se exhibe en la @nohrahaimegallery en #Chelsea! Les doy un paseo por la muestra con mis fotos ;) #nyc #latinx #photography #nycphotographer #art (at Chelsea, Manhattan)

[ramirollona]

#NohraHaimeGallery #NewYork 1986 (en #Taller)

[intheartworld]

#nohrahaimegallery #ThomasErben #PPOW #ChelseaGalleries #intheArtworld (at Nohra Haime Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5JhWaPlAdh/?igshid=vaup6h3q7xwc

[intheartworld]

#nohrahaimegallery #ChelseaGalleries #ClioArtFair #painting #sculpture #intheArtworld (at Chelsea, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3k-5cslj0c/?igshid=vncwqmk5ln8j