PRESS RELEASE | CLAUDIA BAEZ Paintings After Proust
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
