Track Work: 100 Years of New York City's Subway

Jan 24 - May 21, 2020
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Press release
ACA Galleries is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Track Work: 100 Years of New York’s Subway. The subway as a subject has captured the artist’s imagination since its beginnings. A symbol of modern progress, the subway is a great unifier; the ultimate democracy where people from different boroughs, classes, races, and ethnicities come together for the same fare and experience. The exhibition showcases an array of artists’ interpretations over the last century and demonstrates how the subway exemplifies the diversity and community that defines New York as a city. The subway provides dramatic possibilities for nonnarrative art which explore the geometries and lines of girders and tracks as well as extreme darkness to bright sunlight. Artists include Linda Adato, Saul Chase, Howard Cook, Chris “Daze” Ellis, Joseph Golinkin, Steven Katz, Henry Koerner, Greg Lamarche, Martin Lewis, Louis Lozowick, Adriaan Lubbers, Anthony Mitri, Francis Luis Mora, Reginald Marsh, August Mosca, Richard Pantell, Joseph Peller, Alan Petrulis, Phase 2, Jack Prudnikov, Philip Reisman, Doug Safranek, David Schmidlapp, John Sloan, Richard Sloat, Raphael Soyer, Curt Szekessy, Emily Trueblood, Hanns Welti, and Edmund Yaghjian.
Overview
The subway as a subject has captured the artist’s imagination since its beginnings. A symbol of modern progress, the subway is a great unifier; the ultimate democracy where people from different boroughs, classes, races, and ethnicities come together for the same fare and experience.
 
The exhibition showcases an array of artists’ narrative interpretations over the last century and demonstrates how the subway exemplifies the diversity and community that defines New York as a city.
 
The subway provides dramatic possibilities for non-narrative art which explore the geometries and lines of girders and tracks as well as extreme darkness to bright sunlight.
 
Artists include Linda Adato, Saul Chase, Howard Cook, Chris “Daze” Ellis, Joseph Golinkin, Steven Katz, Henry Koerner, Greg Lamarche, Martin Lewis, Louis Lozowick, Adriaan Lubbers, Anthony Mitri, Francis Luis Mora, Reginald Marsh, August Mosca, Richard Pantell, Joseph Peller, Alan Petrulis, Phase II, Jack Prudnikov,  Philip Reisman, Doug Safranek, David Schmidlapp, John Sloan, Richard Sloat, Raphael Soyer, Curt Szekessy, Emily Trueblood, Hans Welti, and Edmund Yaghjian.
Artworks
  • Greg Lamarche Leaving the Station, 2017 Hand cut paper collage 10 x 15 3/4 in. 25.4 x 40.0 cm
    Greg Lamarche
    Leaving the Station, 2017
    Hand cut paper collage
    10 x 15 3/4 in.
    25.4 x 40.0 cm
  • Joseph Peller Evening, Brooklyn Bound, 2020 Pastel on paper 23 x 16 in. 58.4 x 40.6 cm
    Joseph Peller
    Evening, Brooklyn Bound, 2020
    Pastel on paper
    23 x 16 in.
    58.4 x 40.6 cm
  • Philip Reisman Union Square Station II, (Downtown), 1976 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 in. 60.96 x 91.44 cm
    Philip Reisman
    Union Square Station II, (Downtown), 1976
    Oil on canvas
    24 x 36 in.
    60.96 x 91.44 cm
  • Doug Safranek Trancado, 2002 Egg tempera on panel 32 x 22 in. 81.28 x 55.88 cm
    Doug Safranek
    Trancado, 2002
    Egg tempera on panel
    32 x 22 in.
    81.28 x 55.88 cm