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Artist Who Was Under FBI Surveillance for Many Years Shows at Bushwick’s ‘Life on Mars’ Gallery

 

Artist Who Was Under FBI Surveillance for Many Years Shows at Bushwick’s ‘Life on Mars’ Gallery
Arnold Mesches in front of “Next in Line”

Artist Who Was Under FBI Surveillance for Many Years Shows at Bushwick’s ‘Life on Mars’ Gallery

 

Artist Who Was Under FBI Surveillance for Many Years Shows at Bushwick’s ‘Life on Mars’ Gallery
Arnold Mesches in front of “Next in Line”
Arnold Mesches in front of “Next in Line”

 

At the age of 92, artist Arnold Mesches does not shy away from stirring emotions such as horror, violence or tenderness through his art. His work is currently exhibited in a solo exhibition titled “75 Years Of Works On Paper” at Life on Mars gallery (56 Bogart St, East Williamsburg) though December 20, which gives us plenty of time to explore the lifetime of work of this certainly extraordinary man.

Even though Arnold Mesches is considered by many a painters’ painter, as writer Jill Ciment, his wife of 43 years puts it, if you strip the color off his canvases…

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