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Three Painters On The Rise Turn To The Past

A new group show at Ridgewood's Selenas Mountain has a lot to say about the last century and this one.

Three Painters On The Rise Turn To The Past

Three Painters On The Rise Turn To The Past

A new group show at Ridgewood's Selenas Mountain has a lot to say about the last century and this one.

Three Painters On The Rise Turn To The Past
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Influence can make some painters anxious but, in a new show put on at the Selenas Mountain in Ridgewood, three painters turn unhesitatingly toward the last century’s modernist past, where the shadows of Dalí, Kahlo and Rivera dance glibly on the walls. The trio are three New York painters on the rise: all three hold BFAs from Pratt, Hunter, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. One of the three, Larissa De Jesús Negrón, currently works at MoMa and had her first solo show at a gallery in Williamsburg last October. But the work from all three comes together to collectively use its excavated style to articulate the boundaries of a new world, a conversation with friends about war and capitalism.

The gallery, contained on the third floor of a refurbished warehouse near the tip of Woodward Avenue, has given this the set-up a more auspicious name: “These Opalescent Dreams of…

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