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| Andre Woolery at the opening of his solo exhibition Bruised Thumbs, February 23, 2012. BlackArtistNews photo. All rights reserved. |
milo bosh | BlackArtistNews
March 5, 2012
It was an exceptionally warm evening in Manhattan on February 23, 2012 and even hotter inside the TriBeCa-based Frontrunner Gallery. The space was fired up for Andre Woolery's first solo exhibit Bruised Thumbs where portraits of Jay-Z, Kanye West, Erykah Badu and others stood head and shoulders above the shoulder-to-shoulder hipsters who -- in true digital-age fashion – snapped photos of the works as if the subjects themselves were standing on the red carpet. One imagines it was a heady night for the artist who has gotten quite a bit of press for incorporating push-pins (he calls them thumb tacks) into his paintings (hence the title of the show.) Woolery has a systematic design process in order for the creation of these works but aligning the symbolic meaning of such a distinct material element in a way that won’t intellectually cripple future works will be a challenge. Hopefully, this is something he’s considered and if he can overcome that, the heat index for his next show may damn near be tropical.
March 5, 2012
It was an exceptionally warm evening in Manhattan on February 23, 2012 and even hotter inside the TriBeCa-based Frontrunner Gallery. The space was fired up for Andre Woolery's first solo exhibit Bruised Thumbs where portraits of Jay-Z, Kanye West, Erykah Badu and others stood head and shoulders above the shoulder-to-shoulder hipsters who -- in true digital-age fashion – snapped photos of the works as if the subjects themselves were standing on the red carpet. One imagines it was a heady night for the artist who has gotten quite a bit of press for incorporating push-pins (he calls them thumb tacks) into his paintings (hence the title of the show.) Woolery has a systematic design process in order for the creation of these works but aligning the symbolic meaning of such a distinct material element in a way that won’t intellectually cripple future works will be a challenge. Hopefully, this is something he’s considered and if he can overcome that, the heat index for his next show may damn near be tropical.
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