Artorbiter.com Website Review

www.artorbiter.com – Artists interviewed regarding current and recent exhibitions.. SEE OUR INTERVIEW WITH RIC DRAGON AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE. . Every once in a while you come across an anomaly. My latest anomaly was walking into the, one week only exhibition on Partition Street in With monumental works that could easily hold their own on the walls of Cheim and Read or Berry Campbell galleries in Chelsea. It’s not the The exhibit is a pop up, it was curated by the artist’s son and run in conjunction with Cross Contemporary who’s gallery across the street shows a surprising collection of better known artists and lesser knowns who shouldn’t be. They run a tight program with a singular vision. Not your typical regional gallery in the Catskills.  While Ric Dragon studied art in New York during the early 80’s he left the city for the Hudson Valley while his contemporaries, some of York artists. I walk the streets and wonder sometimes who and what genius has walked these blocks and never been recognized for their hard work and the sacrifice that making art takes. I think of them as friends I’ve never had the chance to meet and most often never seen these ghosts. But he’s been living and painting in the Hudson Valley and not New York City. His work has been overlooked, possibly because he left New York to have more space and quality of life. His paintings are as good as any major abstract artist of the last 30 years. His obscurity and his lack of careerism is, if anything a testament to the sincerity in his work.  packing these paintings to move them to Bogota, Columbia. Why? From what I can tell he’s worked all his life to make support his artwork. Now he’s going we’re he can paint full time, without working a job to go struggle in the studio.  in the country of Columbia. That country is about to inherit some pretty fantastic paintings! Not many – over the years I’ve had solo shows in the local arts organizations, at a gallery in Bushwick, and at the Munson Williams