Ian Tornay and an Apology.

Dear Friends:

I am sorry I have not been able to deal with th blog for more than a month. As far as I my health was concerned, it was not a good month. I spemt most of it in the hospital with a few sickly days out at either end. This is one of them.  The next few months will tell whether I am out of worries or not.  The thing is very technical and uncommon and it relates to an illness I  thought I had finished with ten years ago.

Meanwhile I have not gotten to any shows.  The Ian Tornay show, though looks too good to miss. Besides his landscape paintings which are intense and intensely brushed, he is showing some low reliefs of the same subjects, in which he is working out the space using fairly hard edged lines, most of them horizontal and vertical.

He is a very interesting artist, and shows at the Bowery Gallery. I think he has never been looked at by any reviewers.  More is the pity, his work deserves serious looking at, and serious support.

Of course I cannot claim to be unbiased. He was one of the last two serious artists to go through the Queens College MFA program before it became an establishment tool. He is a family man, and teaches to make part of his living.

It probably goes this way. Since I like him I am delighted that he is such a good and serious artist.

Anyhow, please don't expect too much of this blog until I am better.
 

Love,
Gabriel