City and Soul

The artist is a city boy.

New York and, to a lesser degree, San Francisco are the inspirations for Kim Cogan's solo exhibition City and Soul. If you've wandered, as I have, in latitudes south of 14th St., through the haze of brushstrokes you may recognize the subjects of several of Cogan's paintings. (Some are shown here only in detail, or on an angle, in accommodation of gallery lighting.) Above, "Nick's Luncheonette" sits empty on Williamsburg's Broadway, while "Open Late" portrays the Zaragoza Mexican Deli Grocery on Avenue A.

Below, "Grocery at Dusk" is the Chinese Hispanic Grocery of the Lower East Side, shown here in idiosyncratic detail. (See also Spy Pizza Café.) "Catch of the Day" portrays a Chinese fish market, maybe on Mott, maybe on Grand; according to the artist, the woman in the flowered dress, shown in multiple "exposures," was snapping pictures of the seafood with her camera. (Sounds like a food blogger to me.) I can't place the café of "When It Rains"; if you recognize it, drop a word in the comments.

City and Soul
Paintings by Kim Cogan
www.KimCogan.com
At Gallery Henoch, 555 West 25th St. (Tenth-Eleventh Aves.)
917-305-0003
www.GalleryHenoch.com
Through November 29, 2009

Comments

[lady d]

i love that this is the most recent entry on eating in translation! i've known kim for years and he and his work are AWESOME. can't wait for his next show in SF!