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Vita Petersen (1915-2011). Still from a video from 2007. Courtesy of the New York Studio School.
Thursday, January 26th, 2012

In Pursuit of Sensual Form: Vita Petersen (1915-2011)

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As her last paintings open at the New York Studio School, our tribute plus a film.

Mercedes Matter, Tabletop Still Life, ca. 1936. Oil on canvas, 43 x 48 inches, Private collection, Florida.
Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Mercedes Matter at the Weisman Gallery, Pepperdine University

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There’s an internalized severity to her art; its fierce angularity suggests an appetite for sensual abandon constrained by geometry, argues HEARNE PARDEE

Meyer Schapiro, Slipped Grid, 3-Jul-79 1979. Oil on plasterboard, 7 x 10 inches Estate of Meyer Shapiro
Thursday, February 17th, 2005

The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School

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New York Studio School 8 West 8th Street New York NY 10011 212 673 6466 February 17 to May 7, 2005 The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture is housed in a nationally land marked building on 8th Street – a maze-like architectural wonder that combines four Victorian townhouses, mews carriage houses, … Continued