"Angels on the Border: Religious Paintings by Mexican Immigrants in the United States" features 59 retablos -- paintings on tin, representing a technique that was influential in Mexican fine art.
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Italian, 18th C.? Ornamental border with miniature paintings of scenes from the Book of Esther.
While the Photorealist paintings border on misogynistic, these read as empathic meditations on the mortality of the flesh.
Galleries: Chelsea AL HELD AND FRANCES DAFFERN, Robert Miller, 524 West 26th Street, (212) 366-4774, through Jan .3. Weaving together Op Art, sci-fi and psychedelic illustration and geometric abstraction, Mr. Held's king-size paintings border on kitsch while continuing to dazzle the eye and boggle the mind.
The imperfections in Martin's hand-drawn lines and the slippage of paint over the border, actually allows her paintings to breathe.
But the colors modulate into softness at the borders of the paintings, bound with strips of traditional African fabrics made with vegetable dyes.
Some of these paintings, which bordered on nonobjectivity, are surprising in their monumentality.
Williams's authority in these paintings crosses borders of class, culture and region as few others can.
As early as one generation after the Spanish conquest, he had assimilated the European style so completely that his compositions are very similar to woodcuts in a German Bible, but he often changed the format, turning horizontal rectangular borders into oval vertical paintings and adding colours and modeling to the black-and-white lines.
