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Closes Apr 28:

”Paintings from the 80’s”
 Robert Overby

2 Locations:
Andrew Kreps Gallery, 525 W22nd St., NYC
Fredericks & Freiser, 536 W24th St., NYC

Overby’s paintings recall both the acuity of renaissance-style painting and that of graphic design. His reliance on the grid anchors his work to the architecture of the canvas, as his saturated color palette recalls the tawdry glamour of Los Angeles, the artists’ home. Simultaneously culled from high-end fashion magazines and pornography, the women of Overby’s quasi-figurative paintings are disembodied from the forms they suggest.