Boy Meets World, Chip Haggerty

boy meets world chip haggerty

Julia Seabrook Gallery, April 20-May 28

Hipster Shoe, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2022

Julia Seabrook Gallery brings Chip Haggerty – a brutish New England painter and reluctant outsider – in from the cold with his first ever New York City solo exhibition. The show opens April 20, 5-9 PM, at Julia Seabrook Gallery, 660 Franklin Ave., Crown Heights, Brooklyn. It runs through May 28.

Spike, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2019

Chip Haggerty: Boy Meets World presents 49 paintings that touch on themes drawn from quotidian stresses: gravity, traffic, food, people.

A list of herbs and spices for a recipe becomes a threat.

Some Warholesque bananas become a decorative frieze.

Collections of sunglasses and ballet slippers take on relevance. There are scenes of skiers and snow from his adopted home in Vermont. But bowing to his New York City roots, Haggerty also includes Gotham cityscapes, traffic, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the subway, and Central Park.

Ingredients, mixed, media on upcycled paper, 2023

300 CPW, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2023 Vision, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2023

300 CPW, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2023

Untitled, mixed media on upcycled paper

Other Featured Artists

Clementine Hunter, Plantation

Howard Finster, Angel, mixed media on wood, 1995

Sister Gertrude Morgan, Let’s Make a Record

Curated by gallerist Nicole ABE Titus, the show also features works by others who made successful transitions from outside the art world to prominence in the fine art universe.

Haggerty’s paintings will be complemented by works that resonate in style, substance or genesis including pieces by Henri Rousseau, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Howard Finster, Jean Dubuffet, Clementine Hunter, Adolf Wölfli, Mose Tolliver and Henry Darger.

Moses Toliver, Doin the electric slide, Mixed Media on wood

Henri Rousseau, Paysage de forêt vierge, Lithograph, 1976

Julia Seabrook Gallery, a division of ABE Art LLC, is owned by Nicole ABE Titus. JSG offers an approachable, nonaligned threshold to the art world for promising emerging artists and a robust growth catalyst for established talent.

I Must Get Into The Whitney, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2023

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