Optical painting has been making its presence felt lately, with its 21st-century manifestation swapping the psychedelia and illusionism of its ’60s progenitor, Op Art, for an emphasis on process, systems and formal interrogation. The results are playful, tough, astringent, sensual, and thoroughly Romantic.
The lion’s share of the art galleries in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, long housed along a hallway on the second floor of 111 Front Street, will move this spring. Two Trees Management, the real estate company that owns many of the buildings in the neighborhood, including 111 Front Street, will provide new spaces for most of the galleries in storefront locations along Plymouth Street and in the former Galapagos Art Space building. The moves are due to happen in late April and early May.