Paul Hunter at 100 Wall Street

New York-based artist Paul Hunter has two paintings from his Libretto series on view in the lobby of 100 Wall Street through August 2024.

Inspired by his daily drawing practice, these paintings are composed through a process of linear repetition––multiple layers of lines, each drawn and painted by hand onto shimmering gold and metal-leafed canvases. Etched into wet transparent paint, these lines allow the intensive glow and energy of the underlying gold and metal to reflect outwards through the paint. The slight variation between lines creates an undulating pattern giving them depth and a unique optical quality. Merging reading, writing, and painting, these works invite contemplative looking over time comparable to listening to a musical score––as Hunter says, "Music, like a walk through a landscape, unfolds over time, in a flow, with beginnings and ends, and crescendos and lulls, depending on what we notice, or where we started." 

Born in Paris to Canadian parents, Paul Hunter grew up in Quebec City, and earned an MFA at Concordia University in Montreal, before moving to New York City where he continues to work in his Harlem studio. Please direct any inquiries about these works to info@paulhunterart.com. The show is open to the public from 9 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Friday.

Carolanna Parlato at 860 Washington Street

860 Washington Street is pleased to present an exhibition of four works by New York-based painter Carolanna Parlato in the lobby gallery through April 2024. Riddled with painterly gestures, bold lyricism, and an unabashed sense of color, Parlato’s paintings draw inspiration from her surrounding Brooklyn neighborhood. Fascinated by the signs, graffiti, and industrial buildings of Gowanus and Red Hook, the repeated elongated oval shape is derived from the brightly colored canoes and kayaks she observes on her daily waterfront walks.

Working simultaneously between canvases, she uses untraditional tools: palette knives, rollers, rags, spray bottles, and squeegees. Layers of translucent and impasto paint embellish the canvas with offbeat shapes, smears of bold color, patches of subtle tone, and painterly brushwork. Combining hybrid gestures and hard-edge color blocking, this process results in graphic networks drawing on traditions of the women of Abstract Expressionism, as well as contemporary works by Elizabeth Murray and Pia Fries.

Group Exhibition at 527 Madison Avenue

527 Madison Avenue is pleased to announce its 25th exhibition and a celebration of its decade-long art program showcasing emerging and mid-career artists from New York. The exhibition will feature work by 8 artists who have exhibited in the Lobby Gallery since 2014: JoAnne Carson (2020), Susan Grossman (2022), Glen Hansen (2016), Tracy Miller (2014), Dorothy Robinson (2015), Steven Salzman (2020), Dirk Westphal (2016), and Molly White (2015).

The exhibition will run from May 5 – September 15, 2023, and an opening reception will be held on May 11 from 5 – 7 PM. Located at 54th Street and Madison Avenue, the show is open to the public 9 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Friday.