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Artists’ Gardens – George Van Hook

Inspiration Shut at Hand

Artists’ Gardens

George Van Hook

Iris, 30 x 24", Oil, © George Van Hook
Iris          30 x 24″          Oil          © George Van Hook

   In response to our “Inspiration Close at Hand” simply call for paintings established in artists’ gardens or other personal areas, we received these five pictures from artist, George Van Hook. Even though inspiration can be located far and huge, many of us have discovered “diamonds in personal backyard”, specially all through the confinement of the pandemic. There can be great artistic positive aspects to painting a additional intimate and personal globe throughout the changes of mild and time.

The Flower Farm, 12 x 16", Oil, © George Van Hook
The Flower Farm          12 x 16″          Oil          © George Van Hook

   George wrote to us, “I typically commit a fantastic part of the summer season months portray the determine in the several beautiful flower gardens that encircle our household in Upstate New York. We’ve lived below for nearly 30 five years, and from

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LeCrue Eyebrows First Solo Exhibition at Van Der Plas Gallery

When I very first came on LeCrue Eyebrows‘ artworks on the streets of my metropolis, I was struck at at the time by its singular authenticity. Every single piece intrigues, as it exudes a distinctive aura of secret. Visible meditations on these types of common themes as appreciate, reduction and longing, the functions are subtly potent and strikingly attractive.

Not to be skipped is the Queens-based artist’s very first solo exhibition at Van Der Plas Gallery. At once quietly raw and soulfully tasteful, each and every get the job done tells a story – to be freely interpreted by its viewer.  And every piece was established freely and spontaneously, as practically nothing that Lecrue produces is premeditated. The act of painting, itself, is to the artist “an intensive sort of meditation.”

The beguiling image pictured earlier mentioned, “Move with Me,” was fashioned this 12 months with acrylic on canvas.

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ROYAL FLUSH Continues at Van Der Plas Gallery Showroom on the LES

On perspective concurrently with LeCrue Eyebrows’ solo clearly show at Van Der Plas Gallery is ROYAL FLUSH, a team exhibition featuring delightfully intriguing artworks by ten remarkably imaginative artists.

The huge blended-media artwork showcased over, Numb, was fashioned by Clown Soldier, whose now-iconic signature character I 1st encountered on NYC streets over a 10 years in the past. Several much more images of artworks — all by artists whose works have also surfaced in public areas — now on view in ROYAL FLUSH stick to:

The ever-creative Al Diaz offers the wonderfully sardonic philosophical and political musings of SAMO©, the venture that commenced in the late 70’s in collaboration with the now-famous Basquiat

Brooklyn-primarily based Canadian artist Jason McLean, “Gold Residence,” 2022, Acrylic paint and acrylic ink Pental brush pen above identified canvas

Famous Reduced East Side documentarian and visible artist Clayton Patterson, “Blue Knife,” 2021, Embroidery on

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