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Gallery-Going: The Head-Turning Depths of Everyday Objects

Betty Cuningham’s exhibition of Rackstraw Downes’s drawings includes more than 20 small, luminous sketches of his studio’s interior, nearly all dating from 2020.

Rackstraw Downes, 'In the Artist’s Studio XVII,' 2020, graphite on cream paper. Via Betty Cuningham Gallery
JOHN GOODRICH
JOHN GOODRICH

Rackstraw Downes
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Betty Cuningham Gallery

Rackstraw Downes’s stature as one of today’s most important “realist” painters is secure, but perhaps we can be excused for thinking of him as also a brilliant poet/engineer. 

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JOHN GOODRICH
JOHN GOODRICH

Mr. Goodrich is a painter, teacher and writer on art who lives in the New York City area. He shows at Bowery Gallery and has written for the New York Sun, artcritical.com, Hyperallergic.com and other publications.

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