For this column we made our way up to SoHo on a recent rainy afternoon. It�s amazing how much the character of the neighborhood has changed over the past 20+ years. Now that Chelsea has hijacked the art world focus with regard to the number of galleries and given that an outdoor mall environment has consumed much of SoHo, the place has an emptied-out feeling for artists. Of course this is nothing new in New York; especially for the art world. How many people alive today remember the vibrancy and unbelievable community that was established around 10th street and the Cedar Bar in the 40s and 50s by the New York school? Or when was the last time you went gallery hopping in the short lived East Village scene? SoHo, with its magnificent and vast warehouse spaces and convenient location was incredible in its heyday. Yet there are still galleries and art to be found there and for our purposes, three great shows of abstract art.
The first stop was at The Painting Center for the Tracey Jones show, which unfortunately closed on October 2nd. The next stop was at Rosenberg + Kaufman to see an exhibition of Photographs by Magali Nougrede, a French artist who lives and works in Brighton, England. Finally there was a
