SPECTRUM-New York | Day One

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Yours truly had the pleasure of chit chatting with a few of the talents featured at SPECTRUM New York; though traffic through the first public day was rather slow by all accounts (much to my chagrin) everyone was all smiles and graciously offered to talk with me about their work or that of their clients. In a particularly poignant tour of his current works, exhibiting artist Stanislaw Goc (Slawek) shared with me his unique style informed by his background in film.

Citing Giotto and other masters as owing the corpus of their talent to the ever-present true master that is light he took me piece by piece through his photographic series REFLECTIONS My assessment: his work is pretty engaging and his varied use of materials translates this ethos well.

Another of my interlocutors was the expressive and unique Montero; whose styles are varied and opinions are many.

Look for an interview in the near future along with one featuring the utterly intriguing Marlene Rose; one of a handful of extremely talented artists specializing in a unique creative process for sand cast glass sculpting (see the saucy buddha below).

The architectural piece "Path" comes to us from the ebullient Anya Droug whose study of both architecture and fine art resonate through her work where she admittedly treats oils like watercolors and basically lets the paint be paint...Check back Sunday night for the results of our interview!

Overall day one was lovely enough, but admittedly I was hoping for a stronger turnout; that being said for the first year of SPECTRUM the pick up in visitors later in the day was par for the course.

Check out SPECTRUM tomorrow and Sunday, I'll be there Sunday in the afternoon lining up interviews for weeks to come!