Long-Sharp Gallery

What does a landscape look like when you get close enough to lose it?⁠ ⁠ Nicole Pietrantoni’s ‘Landscape No. 2’ (2021) starts with extreme close-ups of actual landscapes — photographs abstracted until only color gradient remains. Then she introduces pure neon red strips, bent steel, and Kozo paper, fracturing the surface into something kinetic and architectural.⁠ ⁠ The result lives between photography, painting, and sculpture — and it commands a room.⁠ ⁠ 'Landscape No. 2' © Nicole Pietrantoni, 2021, Inkjet on Kozo paper, spray paint, bent steel. 40 × 42 × 3 in.⁠ ⁠ =====⁠ ⁠ #NicolePietrantoni #LongSharpGallery #WomenArtists #ThePresentIsFemale #ContemporaryArt⁠

What does it mean for two artists to truly make something together?⁠ ⁠ Not divide and conquer. Not one painting and one finishing. But a genuine creative dialogue — where the work couldn’t have been made by either of them alone.⁠ ⁠ Spiller + Cameron built their practice around exactly that question. Their Angel Heads series emerges from spliced canvases of repurposed materials — paper bags, canvas totes, paint-smeared rags — where faces and figures appear almost accidentally, like Rorschach inkblots, and then are honored rather than erased.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Featured image(s): Triton’ © Spiller + Cameron, 2023, Mixed media, 48 x 39 in ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ====⁠ ⁠ #SpillerCameron #LongSharpGallery #ContemporaryArt #ArtProcess #MixedMedia

A sculpture you have to read to fully see.⁠ ⁠ Nicola Anthony’s ‘Omega-Om’ (2023) is built from stainless steel text — each curve and tendril carrying language drawn from folklore, mythology, mathematics, and science across multiple cultures. The artist treats these works as amulets: objects believed to hold protective or transformative power.⁠ ⁠ The featured text asks a question that trails off into the cosmos: “Whether we collapse or find our equilibrium with Ω, in the end, its cosmic significance will complete you.”⁠ ⁠ ‘Omega-Om’ © Nicola Anthony, 2023, Stainless steel, 39.3 × 39.3 × 29 in. From a unique series of 3 + 1AP.⁠ ⁠ ====⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #NicolaAnthony #LongSharpGallery #ContemporarySculpture #WomenArtists #ThePresentIsFemale

Two icons. One sign.⁠ ⁠ Chris Bracey — the British artist known as “God’s Own Junkman” — built a career transforming neon from commercial signage into high art. Enjoy Warhol (2014) does exactly what the title says: it splices the Coca-Cola script, one of the most recognizable marks in visual history, with Warhol’s name. The result is a provocation and a love letter at the same time.⁠ ⁠ ‘Enjoy Warhol’ © Chris Bracey, 2014, Neon lettering and found sign mounted on aluminum, 40 × 40 in.⁠ ⁠ ====⁠ ⁠ #ChrisBracey #NeonArt #LongSharpGallery #PopArt #ArtCollectors

Donald Sultan’s poppies have always carried more than beauty.⁠ ⁠ Rooted in his own garden but resonant with the fields of Flanders — where poppies became⁠ synonymous with remembrance after WWI — Sultan’s poppy imagery has accumulated meaning across decades of his practice. ‘White and Silver Poppies’ (2021) arrives in aluminum: shaped, polished, powder-coated in white, and mounted on a polished aluminum base. The result is part sculpture, part memorial, part light source.⁠ ⁠ ‘White and Silver Poppies’ © Donald Sultan, 2021 | Shaped aluminum, polished and with white powder coat, on polished aluminum base | 24.5 x 24 x 3.5 in ⁠ ⁠ ===⁠ ⁠ #DonaldSultan #LongSharpGallery #FlowerSculpture #StillLife #ContemporaryArt

“Dreams can come true”. David Spiller said it plainly — and meant it.⁠ ⁠ According to the artist’s estate: “Dreams and wishes were an important part of the artist’s life and he often reiterated that significance in the compositions and titles of his paintings. As Spiller said, ‘[n]othing is there for the sheer hell of it… Everything has a meaning to me… On a night filled with falling stars the wishes I made with you.’”⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Images: ‘Dreams Can Come True (I’ll Look For You Tonight)’ © David Spiller, 2003, Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 41.75 x 41.75 in⁠ ⁠ ====⁠ ⁠ #DavidSpiller #LongSharpGallery #PopArt #BritishArt #ContemporaryLandscape

What do quantum mechanics, David Foster Wallace, and mirror-polished steel have in common?⁠ ⁠ Patrick Hurst’s “Water Series”.⁠ ⁠ Inspired in part by Wallace’s famous “This Is Water” address, Hurst’s sculptural spheres suggest bubbles rising — symbols of shared humanity surfacing through the noise of contemporary life. Water VIII (2024) is 316 stainless steel, nearly 4 feet tall, and 1 of just 5 in this unique series.⁠ ⁠ It invites you to look at the world — and yourself — from a different angle. Literally.⁠ ⁠ Images: 'Water VIII' © Patrick Hurst, 2024, 316 Stainless steel on stainless steel base, 47 x 25 x 25 in.⁠ ⁠ ===⁠ ⁠ #PatrickHurst #StainlessSteel #OutdoorSculpture #ArtAndPhilosophy⁠ #ArtForCollectors

How fitting that an artist as grounded as Amy Kirchner was born on actual Earth Day. In celebration of both, we share Kirchner’s 'Cove'.⁠ ⁠ According to the artist: ‘Cove’ reminds me of light and still water. Layers of thinned paint paired with light and dark strokes helps the painting feel grounded and expansive.”⁠ ⁠ Images: ‘Cove’ © Amy Kirchner, 2022-2023, Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 in.⁠ ⁠ ====⁠ ⁠ #Kirchnerofthemonth #Abstractart #WomeninArt #Contemporarypainting

“A conclusion, if you like.” Artist Tamar Kander describes her process as a conversation — a back and forth between herself and the marks on the canvas until a satisfying balance is reached. In ‘Clearing’ (2022–2023), that conversation moves through graphite, texture, and paint, arriving at something luminous: a suggestion of landscape, space, and light held in quiet equilibrium. Images: ‘Clearing’ © Tamar Kander, 2022-2023, Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 in. === #TuesdayswithTamar #WomenArtists #AbstractLandscape #ArtForCollectors

There’s a particular kind of conversation that only sculpture can start. Paintings ask you to stand in front of them. Sculpture asks you to move — to circle, to crouch, to catch the light from a different angle. It changes as you change. It occupies the same physical space you do. It’s one of the reasons we’ve built out our sculpture program with such intention. From Dale Enochs’s limestone to Nicola Anthony’s suspended text, the works in our collection ask something different. What sculpture has stopped you in your tracks? 👇 === ‘Alchemical Studies’ © Dale Enochs, 2018, Limestone, 24k gold, powder coated steel, uncoated steel, 68 x 14.5 x 14.5 in ‘Chain Piece’ © Wendy Taylor, 2019, Stainless steel, forged mild steel, and granite, 21.25 x 21.25 x 16.5 in ‘Exposed Exposed 240523’ © Cha Jong Rye, 2024, Fomax, 40.5 x 39.375 x 9 in ‘Propeller’ © Tarik Currimbhoy, 2025, Polished L316 Marine-grade Stainless Steel, 60 x 18 x 18 in ‘Omega-Om’ © Nicola Anthony, 2023, Stainless steel, 39.3 x 39.3 x 29 in === #Sculpture #LongSharpGallery #ArtAndSpace #ContemporarySculpture #CollectSculpture

We had four extraordinary days at the Park Avenue Armory — conversations about Warhol’s early career, about Gilliam’s legacy, about what it means to collect works by living artists. Grateful to be in the company of great galleries, for the IFPDA’s amazing team, and for the veritable art buzz that existed in the Armory last week. Until next time, NYC! #LongSharpGallery #worksonpaper #IFPDAPrintFair #printcollecting #newyorkartscene