Rob Mango: Rhapsody

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KTC Affiliated Artists

For the artist Rob Mango, the city is a dream theater, the setting for an epic drama played out across
space and time. The city is New York, with its familiar landmarks, but a fantastic Gotham populated by
fierce and beautiful figures, imposing enough to rival the towers around them. These personages, from
many epochs and cultures, seem to have emerged from an elevated realm where gods, warriors, and
a panoply of mythic characters coexist. In Mango’s series Rhapsody, these figures each represent the
artist in the changing symbolic guises of hero, fool, and magus. In his allegorical paintings, the artist is
a shape-shifter who encounters the city’s terrors, alluring seductions, and startling epiphanies, but he
himself is never fully knowable. At stake is the artist’s power to make his mark in the face the forces
that would render him powerless, and then to rise again in a new form.

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KTC Affiliated Artists

Real Abstraction: Five Painters Beyond The Picture -curated by Peter Frank

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KTC Affiliated Artists

The Story Tellers: Sol Hill, Deborah Masters, Stewart Nachmias, John A. O'Connor & Lou Tavelli curated by Anthony Haden-Guest

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KTC Affiliated Artists

Nancy Macko: Decompositions

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KTC Affiliated Artists

THE UNIVERSE MAKERS: Bassmi Ibrahim, Dellamarie Parrilli, Victoria Lowe, John Lyon Paul, & Anne Marchand curated by Dominique Nahas

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KTC Affiliated Artists

LEE SALOUTOS : Nevada Mines, American Prisons

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