Chip Haggerty, Boy Meets World

CHIP HAGGERTY BOY MEETS WORLD

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.

Apollo at the Met with Moon, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2019

Dance Class, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2023

300 CPW, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2023,

Cemetery, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2023

Boy Meets World presents 49 paintings that touch on themes drawn from quotidian stresses – boredom, hunger, gravity – and presents everyday items anew – food, people, clothes pins, footwear. 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 surprising 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

Black Car, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2021

Vision, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2023

Untitled, mixed media on upcycled paper

Spike, mixed media on upcycled paper, 2019

Chip Haggerty Haggerty, an emerging self-taught, outsider artist, has been on a slow yet steady pace toward artistic realization since expanding his creative practice time and space allowed.

Writing, painting and spoken word have all been part of Haggerty's artistic portfolio in recent years. Whether writing poetry, engaging with radio audiences or painting in his iconoclastic style, Haggerty consistently brings his humor, depth and passion to the task. Pulling from childhood experiences, parenting, work life, random social gatherings, literature and everyday encounters, Haggerty takes slices of the past and snapshots of the present and bakes them into foundation of each piece of work.

Other Featured Artists

Howard Finster, Angel, mixed media on wood, 1995

Clementine Hunter, Plantation

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 displayed alongside works that complement ed 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

Program by B Scene Zine bscenezine.com @bscenezine bscenezine@gmail.com

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