Alles Walzer by Xenia Hausner Forum Gallery (New York) showed work by Xenia Hausner and Steven Assael at Expo Chicago 2014. The gallery has work of modern art, post war and contemporary art.
Hauser, from Vienna, has a background in creating theater sets. And this isn't a local dinner theater productions but the likes of the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna State Opera--lavish productions all. In 1992 she began working exclusively as a painter but there is still a certain theatricality in her work. Perhaps it is my imagination, first having read about her and then seen her work but I doubt it. We all have our backgrounds, our origins and these inform what we do subsequently, be it mundane actions or high art.
Assael, also represented by the gallery, is a Pratt graduate who creates grand portraits where the use of light is nothing sort of astounding; there is a nod to the Romantic tradition in his pieces as well.
Hauser, from Vienna, has a background in creating theater sets. And this isn't a local dinner theater productions but the likes of the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna State Opera--lavish productions all. In 1992 she began working exclusively as a painter but there is still a certain theatricality in her work. Perhaps it is my imagination, first having read about her and then seen her work but I doubt it. We all have our backgrounds, our origins and these inform what we do subsequently, be it mundane actions or high art.
Assael, also represented by the gallery, is a Pratt graduate who creates grand portraits where the use of light is nothing sort of astounding; there is a nod to the Romantic tradition in his pieces as well.
Bride with Lantern by Steven Assael
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