PRESS RELEASE - City Hall
An exhibition of 52 paintings by New York City artist Ed Adler
The Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, 19th floor
The Gallery of the Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer
May 2nd through May 30th
Reception Tuesday, May 10th, 6 to 8 PM
Ed Adler, whose studio is a short walk from the Municipal Building and
looks out on the Brooklyn Bridge, has been painting and exhibiting in
the city, around the country, and in France and Canada, since he
received a Ph.D. in Art from NYU, where he remained as a professor.
His work has often been seen in the University's Broadway and
Washington Square Windows and he has had recent solo exhibits at
the Denver Art Museum and The Whistler Museum. His work has been
shown in MOMA, The Smithsonian, The LA County Museum, The Santa
Monica Museum of Art, and at UMass and Denver Universities. He is
the author of Departed Angels: Jack Kerouac, the Lost Paintings, has
lectured on art and the Beat generation throughout the world and has
been a professor of art at the Sorbonne.
The City Hall exhibition focuses on his paintings of the last decade
and the work explores the relationship between antiquity and fantasy.
The Freedonia series draws its iconography from location shots in the
1937 Marx Brothers movie "Duck Soup". Another series "The View from
Plato's Cave" references the well-known myth in its shadows and
Renaissance inspired landscapes. "Mountain Madrigals" and
"Mediterranean Blues" celebrate the artistís obsession with
mountaineering -- he is a member of the Explorers Club -- and his
love of the south of France.
A broad spectrum of Adler's work can be seen at www.edadler.com
and on Facebook. Studio visits are encouraged.