Last month Chris Verene might have been the most famous
photographer with work up in Bushwick but Maureen Drennan was clearly the best.
Not only did she have work up, but it was up in a group show at Centotto aka the
apartment of Bushwick, renaissance man Paul D’Agostino. Not only was it
photography in a hip apartment gallery, but it was pure photography, not
photography as a means of sculpture, or as part of an installation piece, or
documenting a performance, or in some way overly abstract or wacky so art
people can tell that it is art, but straight-up, real photography. Drennan’s pictures
create a compelling and versatile look into a waterfront working-class
neighborhood. Mist filled waterscapes, still lives of curb-side trash and
portraits, all pulled off with skill and a knowing eye creating an insider’s
tour of a world very much different from Bushwick apartment shows.
Also in the show was the mighty Kerry Law and his life-size
and often waterfront portraits. The work maintains a consistent creamy palate
not unrelated to Alex Katz and in keeping with Law’s landscapes that were up at
Parallel Art Space, and very much a break from his better-known Empire State
Building paintings. It is fun to get so much a overtly narrative content from Law’s
paintings, with subtle touches like a black cat at the foot of a women in white
or an apparently pregnant woman in black that stand along lovely coastlines are
drenched in foreboding.
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