One afternoon, while scouring through the L.E.S. I "almost" passed by a quaint little gallery with some very big art. Good thing I backed up and stumbled in, as from the from the window rushing by I knew I needed to see more. What an unexpected major thrill to find art, mixed with fashion, mixed with mixed media/collage, my three favorite things! Frosch & Portmann located at 53 Stanton was showing a recent series of works by artist Eva Lake entitled "Judd Women Targets," amazing work my friends. Have a look...and read more....
Notice the red dots on the lower right corner? How could they not be sold?!
Taken from the gallery's press release, (read more here: http://www.froschportmann.com/EvaLake_PR.pdf), "in her most recent work, the Anonymous Women series, Eva Lake turns her attention to unknown beauties. Many are from previous eras, before models became celebrities known by name. Using sections of women’s faces, which Lake likens to cut-up body parts, the artist explores the concept of incompleteness." Some galleries I leave fairly quickly, this one? No. I was there for over an hour studying these brilliant pieces of the art/fashion mix.....
Eva Lake’s photomontages engage in a dialogue with art history, evoking artists from Jasper Johns and Richard Hamilton, to Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
Ya gotta love Instagram, just makes these 60's style images look, well, more 60's ish. Learn more on the link at the top of the post, or here: http://evalake.blogspot.com/ and here: http://www.froschportmann.com/
