The location: Sugar gallery at 449 Troutman Street, in Bushwick. The artist: Jacqueline Lou Skaggs.
The medium: “Oil on Penny.”
they appeared, framed like little portholes, in the midst of pristine, circular mats, edged with distressed gilt frames on ‘moongold’ leaf.
The setting: a salon-style gallery (namely, a private loft, generously opened to the Public) from 1–6PM on Sundays.
So, does it get any better than this?
yes.
tiny rhinestones dot the surface of Jacqueline Skagg's wood works
The curator and proprietor of Sugar, Gwendolyn Skaggs, paired the pennies with other works by the same artist — gentle, whorls of gouache on wood that resembled eddies or air currents; a series that the artist calls “Charted Breaths.”
(detail, above)
Very delicate. yet. A huge hook rug by an artist named Doug Young hung between these two bodies of work; very masculine, despite its domestic materials. The subject was combat—namely, soldiers depicted in a jungle, one of them with his arm pulled back, about to toss a grenade.
So, sometimes things work for formal reasons. Sometimes choices are made for personal reasons. And sometimes everything just works, in a nonverbal way, in a gemutlich setting.
(that’s Dutch for “cozy”)
check out my roving eye. Not content with just looking at the show, I had to snap what was in the bathroom (always rewarding art in there, I find; especially on studio visits). Check it out: the stuff I liked turns out to be by the curator’s husband, who’s an artist, too.
glimpsed over the loo @ Sugar, Bushwick
and, by the sink:
Yes, that’s floss, hanging down from the top.
Oh yeah, and damn fine street art on the way.
Bushwick, Troutman Street (detail)
Banner day in Bushwick. Land where galleries and street art Rocks.
they appeared, framed like little portholes, in the midst of pristine, circular mats, edged with distressed gilt frames on ‘moongold’ leaf.
The setting: a salon-style gallery (namely, a private loft, generously opened to the Public) from 1–6PM on Sundays.
So, does it get any better than this?
yes.
tiny rhinestones dot the surface of Jacqueline Skagg's wood works
The curator and proprietor of Sugar, Gwendolyn Skaggs, paired the pennies with other works by the same artist — gentle, whorls of gouache on wood that resembled eddies or air currents; a series that the artist calls “Charted Breaths.”
Very delicate. yet. A huge hook rug by an artist named Doug Young hung between these two bodies of work; very masculine, despite its domestic materials. The subject was combat—namely, soldiers depicted in a jungle, one of them with his arm pulled back, about to toss a grenade.
So, sometimes things work for formal reasons. Sometimes choices are made for personal reasons. And sometimes everything just works, in a nonverbal way, in a gemutlich setting.
(that’s Dutch for “cozy”)
check out my roving eye. Not content with just looking at the show, I had to snap what was in the bathroom (always rewarding art in there, I find; especially on studio visits). Check it out: the stuff I liked turns out to be by the curator’s husband, who’s an artist, too.
glimpsed over the loo @ Sugar, Bushwick
and, by the sink:
Oh yeah, and damn fine street art on the way.
Bushwick, Troutman Street (detail)