Made in New York: Donald Sultan, Hunt Slonem, and Ross Bleckner

Serge Sorokko Gallery is pleased to present: Made in New York: Donald Sultan, Hunt Slonem, and Ross Bleckner - a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by some of the world's most celebrated artists. The show spans the last several decades of painterly explorations in various media, merging Neo-Expressionism and Pop Art in very different ways. All born in the early 1950s, these extraordinary artists are testimony to New York's enduring prominence and leadership on the global art stage. 

The beginning of 1980s was a time that marked the emergence of a generation of young painters, like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Donald Sultan, Eric Fischl, Hunt Slonem, Julian Schnabel, and Ross Bleckner, among others, and the American artistic landscape had changed dramatically.

Roberta Smith, Chief Art Critic of the New York Times, once observed that "the '80s artists were initially called Neo-Expressionist, an insufficient term, given their stylistic diversity, but one that signaled their accessibility and flair. They drew from art history, the news, graffiti and pop culture. Their work embraced different forms of narrative, often with psychological or erotic overtones, and new kinds of self-awareness and worldliness. Even those who painted abstractly had it, in the form of humor or outside references. Across the board, many worked in large scale, often physically eccentric ways."

"The Neo-Expressionists were an instant hit," Roberta Smith wrote. "The phrases 'art star,' 'sellout show' and 'waiting list' gained wide usage. Appearances in glossy magazines became routine."