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Paul Laster, GALERIE, September 9, 2024

SPRING/BREAK Art Show

In a new location, the lucky 13th NYC edition of SPRING/BREAK Art Show featured more than 100 curatorial

exhibitions, special projects, and a new section Artist Spotlight section in the former offices of a book-binding business in

Lower Manhattan. Highlights included Mary Lai’s graphic paintings of dreamlike scenarios, curated by Nina

Kong-Surtees; Rachel Gisela Cohen’s shapely paintings layered with sparkly cutout fabrics in an immersive

three-person show organized by Cohen and Abby Cheney; Peter Gynd’s beautifully brushed still lives and landscape

paintings, presented by Jody MacDonald; along with Erik Hanson’s room full of action paintings of Popeye and Bluto

battling it out on canvas and Amy Hill’s Old Master-style portraits of birds dressed in classical attire, with both exhibitions

curated by SPRING/BREAK founders Ambre Kelly + Andrew Gori as part of the Artist Spotlight series.