A new addition to the Upper East Side gallery scene, Heather James Fine Art New York, located at 42 East 75th Street, presents its inaugural exhibition, Wojciech Fangor: The Early 1960s, April 19 - June 30, 2018. This is the first solo exhibition in the U.S. in more than 15 years of paintings by Wojciech Fangor (1922-2015), one of Poland’s preeminent Post-War abstract artists. In 1970, Fangor was the first Polish artist to have a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. The exhibition, curated by Polish art historian Patryk P. Tomaszewski, is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by Tomaszewski. Heather James Fine Art also has galleries in Palm Desert, San Francisco, Jackson Hole, and a gallery opening this fall in Santa Barbara. Challenging and re-inventing ideas about pictorial space, the 11 large-scale paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and
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