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Art for Sale in New York, Chicago & Rome: Paul Pagk to Nunzio

Published: March 21, 2007
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Photo courtesy Thomas Robertello Gallery
J. Ivcevich, "Cotton Corner" (2006). On view at the Thomas Robertello Gallery


Photo courtesy Galleria Traghetto
Serena Nono, "Nightlight" (2005). On view at the Galleria Traghetto

NEW YORK— For this week’s picks, we asked our editors in New York, Chicago and Rome to select their favorite works for sale in those cities. As could be expected from three important, yet vastly different, art cities, our list includes available pieces by a wide range of artists working in diverse media—painting, photography, installation—and hailing from many different parts of the world.

In the Big Apple, we found New York names at D’Amelio Terras and Moti Hasson. At the former, we discovered some surprising work by Noah Sheldon. The young Brooklynite’s photographs are always remarkable, but it was two installations that set the atmosphere at this solo show. Meanwhile, there were still a few of New Yorker Paul Pagk’s large canvases available at Moti Hasson that are excellent examples of his painting strategy.

Elizabeth Harris Gallery hosted a solo show of Maja Lisa Englehardt, a painter who splits her time among Denmark, Ireland and France, and from the almost-sold-out exhibition, we chose three of her dense abstracted landscapes for our list.

Our Chicago correspondent recommends a few works from a show of self-taught artists at Judy A. Saslow Gallery. Works by Jaber and Gérard Sendrey, both from France, are included, as is an undated piece by Giordano Gelli, an Italian artist who is something of a legend in outsider art circles.

Also in the Windy City, we found excellent mixed-media work—our favorites incorporate player piano scrolls—by Chicago’s own Brian Yates and visually light but formally dense abstract painting by Krakow, Poland-born Kinga Czerska at Kasia Kay Art Projects.

New York painter J. Ivcevich’s work made a trip to the Midwest for a show at Thomas Robertello Gallery, and we picked three paintings from his repertoire of skillfully flattened out city scenes.

Switching continents, our correspondent in Rome singled out work by three Italian artists—a mixed-media piece by Mirko Baricchi, one of Serena Nono’s signature portraits and a hand-altered photograph by Serafino Maiorano—at Galleria Traghetto.

And Galleria Dell'oca offered a few big-name locals, including standout work by Claudio Abate, Jannis Kounellis and the installation artist Nunzio.

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