An new solo exhibition at First Street Gallery reveals how Michele Liebler leaned into introspection during the COVID lockdown to re-imagine kinship as the cradle of bonds and intimacy.
The selections in An Artist’s Eye: The Lukas Charles Collection don’t read as a manifesto for a particular ideology, but rather as something eclectic, a sampling of individual artists working within academic conventions.
The rewards of Manet/Degas accrue not from revelation but from the juxtaposition of work by two friends and rivals, each cerebral, urbane, and dedicated to—obsessed with—painting life in Paris.