Lisa Karrer’s “warm technology,” Deirdre O’Connell’s loving portraits, Caleb Weintraub’s fantastical realms, and more.
Source: Hyperallergic (excerpt)
Caleb Weintraub: Both Sides of the Mirror in the Studio
Perry Lawson Fine Art, 90 North Broadway, Nyack, New York
Through April 26
Combining elements of illustration, cartoon, figuration, and bright color schemes to create imaginative scenes, Caleb Weintraub’s paintings are sheer merriment. Both Sides of the Mirror in the Studio at Perry Lawson Fine Art presents a series of recent paintings that tinker with the familiar and unfamiliar. “Rare Birds” (2023) is a vision of three musical-looking men in a futuristic landscape filled with creatures. In “Fanning the Flame” (2024), we come upon a domestic fireside scene and the warmth of a blazing hearth. In “Mincing Words” (2024), two figures in fantastic outfits approach each other in a wild, surrealist realm laden with abstract oddities, while the character in “Rush Hour” (2024) appears to float in similarly weird environs, his foot severed in two.