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ELLEN ALTFEST: FOREVERFrist Art Museum / 919 Broadway May 31 - September 1st

American representational painter Ellen Altfest paints directly from observation, often working on a single painting over the course of months or years. In meticulously rendering the surface qualities of objects that she feels have been overlooked in art and life—from the rough textures of rocks and tree bark to expanses of men’s skin and hair—her close looking and technical virtuosity yield a near hallucinatory clarity. But her images are also products of invention, as evidenced by...