Meet TWFA's latest star addition Christian Haub. Geometric abstraction is back!!! Read all about Chris and his work in this fantastic interview in Bomb Magazine!   [caption id="attachment_6407" align="aligncenter" width="546"] Nikola Tesla, Christian Haub 2012[/caption] [caption id="attachment_6406" align="aligncenter" width="417"] Sergio Mosca, Christian Haub 2010[/caption] [caption id="attachment_6405" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Untitled 2011, Christian Haub 2011[/caption]

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I stumbled across this amazing painting by Jules Breton one day while in the Met and was absolutely mesmerized by it. The quality of light is unlike anything I've ever seen, not even in a Turner. Breton painted the piece in French countryside in 1868. He described this twilight scene of peasants pulling up thistles and weeds in his autobiography —"their faces haloed by the pink transparency of their violet hoods, as if to venerate a fecundating star". Hung in quite a dim space, the painting lights the room from within and you can almost smell the late afternoon air. Do yourself a favor and find this painting on your next visit - Metropolitan Museum of Art - Gallery # 802.  

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Built in 1884, 222 Bowery in SoHo was New York City’s original YMCA, complete with an indoor swimming pool and basketball court. TWFA artist Michael Goldberg was one of the legendary tenants who called this landmarked building home before his death in 2007. Goldberg inherited the space from the infamous abstract expressionist Mark  Rothko - whose red paint from the Four Season's commissions still smears the studio floor. William S Burroughs also called 222 home and artists Lynda Benglis, Lynn Umlauf and John Giorno still have studios in the building. Cavernous spaces like those within 222 Bowery are becoming things of the past as New York City evolves. Buildings like 222 Bowery that preserve the history of the city and its artists, are sadly being renovated and the studios replaced with luxury condos. Progress will be progress, and I wanted to share some photographs of Mike's studio at 222 Bowery with you, since it too, has been scheduled for renovation.      

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Sometimes the beauty of an artwork is obvious, other times it takes perseverance to uncover a surprising splendor that we were originally blind to. In some ways I like that kind of art most of all, an unexpected pleasure, a discovery. Jeanette Winterson says that “the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue,” and I think that she is right. Because looking at art can be difficult, especially art that isn’t beautiful first off, we don’t allow ourselves time to really see and instead seek a quantifiable method of understanding it. The public art experience, the one that we have in a gallery or museum provides a yard-stick; the intellectual rhetoric of the wall plaque, the canonization of the artist and the price tag are the criteria that we can more easily judge art by. The key when looking at ‘difficult’ art is taking the time to look at the elements at play within the piece, the line, the space, the color, the form. When we really look at theses elements and the interactions between them we can start to develop a relationship with the work and often find beauty in the unexpected. We begin to realize that the art mirrors the complexity of our own lives and it becomes hard to look away.  

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TWFA artist Stephen Key's latest exhibition - Stephen Key, An Art Show, opens March 8th at Capsule. Key's work explores the self, spirituality, mythology and our place as living, feeling creatures in relation to the world around us. Elegantly simple, Key’s work possesses strong emotional content and speaks powerfully through humble imagery.

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