Just Opened:
”H.S.O.P. - 1973”
Michael Bauer
Lisa Cooley Gallery, 107 Norfolk St., NYC (bt Delancey & Rivington)
Michael Bauer’s first solo show in New York. In Bauer’s paintings, figurative elements appear throughout the work, and just as quickly disappear into chaotic moments of abstraction. He speaks about the paintings as being portraits of gangs, families, music bands, collectives, or mobs - a grouping of characters revealed through the occasional eye or profile emerging from shadowy abstraction. Flat, crisp, bright, patterns usually provide the structure from which these organic nebulas originate. - June 17











