{"id":238,"date":"2012-07-19T13:46:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T17:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2013-05-18T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T13:04:23","slug":"paintings-of-hugh-steers-on-view-through-july-20th-in-chelsea-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/19\/paintings-of-hugh-steers-on-view-through-july-20th-in-chelsea-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Paintings of Hugh Steers &#8211; on view through July 20th in Chelsea, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon first seeing the <a title=\"Hugh Steers at Alexander Gray Associates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandergray.com\/artists\/estate-of-hugh-steers\/\" target=\"_blank\">paintings of Hugh Steers<\/a>, my mind went to Edward Hopper. \u00a0The color juxtapositions, the simplicity of his subject matter, but mostly, the way he distills a space in time down to its deeper essence. \u00a0One breaths with the moment when viewing his work. \u00a0Through images of playfulness, campiness and deep compassion, Steers&#8217; paintings touch upon <!--more-->what it meant to be a gay man in the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s in New York City. \u00a0He painted his Queer identity, and his identity through the AIDS crisis, which claimed him in 1995 at only 32 years old. In a 1992 interview he referred to his work as being in a category of American artists &#8220;whose work embodies a certain gorgeous bleakness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Steers&#8217; estate is represented by <a title=\"Alexander Gray Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandergray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Gray Associates<\/a> at 508 West 26th Street in Manhattan. \u00a0If you rush over you can see a selection of his works before their group show, &#8220;<a title=\"Cadmus, Steers, Warhol exhibit June-July 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandergray.com\/exhibitions\/2012-06-08_cadmus-steers-warhol\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cadmus, Steers, Warhol<\/a>&#8221; comes down at 5pm on July 20th. \u00a0Take the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon first seeing the paintings of Hugh Steers, my mind went to Edward Hopper. \u00a0The color juxtapositions, the simplicity of his subject matter, but mostly, the way he distills a space in time down to its deeper essence. \u00a0One breaths with the moment when viewing his work. \u00a0Through images of playfulness, campiness and deep compassion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-artpainting","post_format-post-format-gallery","three-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}