Parker Field
Parker Field is a Brooklyn-based art historian and writer, currently the Managing Director of the Arshile Gorky Foundation.
Two Time, artist Soren Hope’s first solo exhibition in New York City, is made up of seven oil paintings, five monotypes, and one flipbook, which itself consists of some one hundred and thirty drawings. It is as rewarding as it is ambitious, and well worth navigating the throngs of Canal Street and the requisite four-flight ascent to the gallery.
With the recent publication of the fourth and final volume of the Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné—a life’s work, of which he is a co-author—Camfield obtains his goal of making the WWII series known. Authored by Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements, and Arnauld Pierre, the four-volume catalogue raisonné includes 2,125 works spanning a range of media, predominantly painting and drawing.
The artworks I discuss in this article are, for the most part, unseen. They are either unrealized, destroyed, lost, or on display in a place that is geographically, administratively and, largely, psychically removed from New York City’s mainstream society—Rikers Island
