Guest Curated by
Laura Fried
Laura Fried is an LA-based curator and the Co-Founder and Director of Active Cultures, a nonprofit organization that explores the convergence of food and art in contemporary life. Throughout her career, Fried has advocated for artists and institutions while pushing forward new models for engagement and exhibition making. We’re delighted to share Fried’s curation of Tappan artworks and her insightful, art historical perspective.
Guest Curated by
Laura Fried
Laura Fried is an LA-based curator and the Co-Founder and Director of Active Cultures, a nonprofit organization that explores the convergence of food and art in contemporary life. Throughout her career, Fried has advocated for artists and institutions while pushing forward new models for engagement and exhibition making. We’re delighted to share Fried’s curation of Tappan artworks and her insightful, art historical perspective.
Laura Fried says
Alexandra Karamallis’ paintings and drawings hold this specific, luminous interiority that for me recalls Matisse. There is a way she develops these intricate relationships to spatial planes and this incredible, if isolated, subject that immediately reminds me of ‘The Piano Lesson,’ a painting I’ve thought about quite a lot in these last 9 months of the pandemic
Laura Fried says
Alexandra Karamallis’ paintings and drawings hold this specific, luminous interiority that for me recalls Matisse. There is a way she develops these intricate relationships to spatial planes and this incredible, if isolated, subject that immediately reminds me of ‘The Piano Lesson,’ a painting I’ve thought about quite a lot in these last 9 months of the pandemic
Laura Fried says
Tadahiro Gunji’s catalog of referents for his sculptural wall works—from Gutai to Ellsworth Kelly—speaks to his highly attuned sensibility. ‘Collecticity 051’ is so interesting to me: it is at once figure and landscape, contrapposto and angular. A non-figure that winks.
Laura Fried says
Tadahiro Gunji’s catalog of referents for his sculptural wall works—from Gutai to Ellsworth Kelly—speaks to his highly attuned sensibility. ‘Collecticity 051’ is so interesting to me: it is at once figure and landscape, contrapposto and angular. A non-figure that winks.
