The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY is presenting “Art Got Into Me”: The Work of Engels the Artist, a ten-year survey of work by Engels the Artist, a Haitian-born, self-taught artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition will be on view through December 22, 2019. According to Dr. Patrice Giasson, the Alex Gordon Curator of Art of the Americas at the Neuberger Museum of Art, “Engels calls into question the very notion of what constitutes painting. Abstract and poetic, his sculptural paintings are both aesthetically appealing and profoundly meaningful.” Dr. Giasson notes that while Engel’s art is in dialogue with European and American art traditions, his work contains spiritual elements mixed with Haitian historical and social themes. Engels says he can create with anything, as “I did not get
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