CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

Opening Night at ART 3

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST, curated by Anne Strauss

October 8, 2014

 

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

 

David Cohen (Editor & Publisher artcritical.com)  in conversation with Claudia Baez

Friday October 31st, 2014

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

 

David Cohen (Editor & Publisher artcritical.com)  in conversation with Claudia Baez

Friday October 31st, 2014

 

Alexandra Zelman (text)  and Naum Goldenstein (clarinet) performance

 

PROUST IS IN THE AIR

to celebrate CLAUDIA BAEZ Paintings after Proust

Saturday, November 1st, 12 - 6 pm

ongoing:  music by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Camille  Saint-Saëns           

 

2:30 pm: an improvisation on Proust by Naum Goldenstein (clarinet) and Alexandra Zelman (text)      

5 pm:  a conversation between curator Raul Zamudio and writer Phoebe Hoban on the exhibition in the context of contemporary painting

Raul Zamudio and Phoebe Hoban discuss Contemporary Painting and the work of Claudia Baez

 

PROUST IS IN THE AIR 

to celebrate CLAUDIA BAEZ Paintings after Proust

Saturday, November 1st, 12 - 6 pm

ongoing:  music by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Camille  Saint-Saëns            

 

2:30 pm: an improvisation on Proust by Naum Goldenstein (clarinet) and Alexandra Zelman (text)       

5 pm:  a conversation between curator Raul Zamudio and writer Phoebe Hoban on the exhibition in the context of contemporary painting

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST

October 8 - November 22, 2014

PAINTINGS after PROUST

“And as he played, of all Albertine’s multiple tresses I could see but a single heart-shaped loop of black hair clinging to the side of her ear like the bow of a Velasquez Infanta.”

2013, oil stick, charcoal and oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in.

                                                                       

after Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)

La Infanta Maria Teresa, ca. 1651-54

PAINTINGS after PROUST

“Since that day, M. Nissim Bernard had never failed to come and occupy his seat at the lunch-table (as a man might occupy his seat in the stalls who was keeping a dancer…of a distinct and special type which still awaits its Degas)…”

2014, oil stick, charcoal and oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in.

 

after Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

Dancers Backstage, 1876-83

PAINTINGS after PROUST

“Swann had the nerve to try and make us buy a ‘Bundle of Asparagus.’ In fact it was in the house for several days. There was nothing else in the picture, just a bundle of asparagus exactly like the ones you are eating now…he wanted three hundred francs for them…!”

2014, oil stick, charcoal and oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in.

 

after Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

Bunch of Asparagus, 1880

PAINTINGS after PROUST

“M. Verdurin he saw the disappearance of one of the last relics of the social framework,…and he was as saddened and distressed by this event as a painter of fêtes galantes might have been by the Revolution which destroyed the elegances of the 18th C, or of Renoir by the disappearance of…the ‘Moulin de la Gallette…’ ”

2013, oil stick, charcoal and oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in.

 

after Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

Ball at the Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre, 1876

PAINTINGS after PROUST

“The Baron had devoutly lowered his mascara’ed eyelids which, contrasting with his powdered cheeks, gave him the appearance of a Grand Inquisitor painted by El Greco.”

2014, oil stick, charcoal and oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.

 

 

after El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos] (Greek, 1540/41–1614)

A Cardinal (probably Cardinal Niño de Guevara), ca. 1600

CLAUDIA BAEZ

PAINTINGS after PROUST

curated by Anne Strauss

8 October - 22 November 2014

Press

PRESS RELEASE | CLAUDIA BAEZ Paintings After Proust
WHITEWALL Top Exhibitions Openings this week in New York (Oct.-6-12)
BWW art world | CLAUDIA BAEZ Paintings after Proust, October 8, 2014
ROMANBLOG II art diary by Vincent Romaniello CLAUDIA BAEZ PAINTINGS after PROUST, curated by Anne Strauss
ARTSY Editorial | Paintings after Proust: Contemporary Takes on Old Masters in Homage to Marcel Proust by Casey Lesser
THE VERNISSAGE | CLAUDIA BAEZ In Search of a Lost Time by Giulia Trabaldo Togna
October 8, 2014
SCOOP.it | ART 3 presents, CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST Curated by, Anne Strauss | by Marcelita Swann
ART 3 presents, CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST Curated by Anne Strauss