167 West 21st Street
New York, NY
For Immediate Release
Maybe the People Would Be the Times:
Paintings and Drawings by Mary Nicholson
February 1 - 13, 2003
Opening reception Saturday, February 1, 6-8pm
Magnitude Gallery is proud to present a solo show by
Harlem based artist Mary Nicholson, whose work V magazine has called "an
extraordinary series of musician portraits." (Jan/Feb
2003)
This show draws from an ongoing series of paintings
which have been made to music and depict both its form
and its creators. Throughout the work, sound and
color combine, line emerges and then the image. Here
is Curtis Mayfield, Thelonius Monk, Bob Dylan, or Yoko
Ono, and here also is the movement of their music in
time. The work has both the complexity and the
simplicity of a Rorschach.
Each painting, like its subject, is at once of the
past, and happening in the here and now. With a drama
that owes something to the Abstract Expressionists of
the 1950's, Mary's vision is alive, colorful, and
unmistakably unique.
Gallery hours are 10am-10pm Monday-Sunday. For more
information call (917) 561-8988
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