Fringe Figure

Math Bass, Julie Beaufils, Roger Brown, Wells Chandler, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Leon Golub, Milford Graves, Justin John Greene, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Robert Heinecken, Mika Horibuchi, Richard Hunt, Deana Lawson, Krystle Lemonias, Shaun Leonardo, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, William J. O'Brien, Irving Petlin, Barbara Probst, R.H. Quaytman, Sterling Ruby, Nancy Spero, Norman Zammitt
January 10 – February 22, 2025
Galleries One and Two
  • Opening Reception
    Friday January 10, 2025 / 5–8PM

ANDREW RAFACZ is thrilled to begin the new year with Fringe Figure, a group exhibition of paintings, drawings, pastels, prints, textile and sculpture by twenty-one artists, in Galleries One & Two. The exhibition opens Friday, January 10th and continues through Saturday, February 22nd, 2025.

Torso of an Archaic Apollo

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,
gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:

Would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. C. F. MacIntyre

Fringe Figure includes works by Math Bass, Roger Brown, Julie Beaufils, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Wells Chandler, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Leon Golub, Milford Graves, Justin John Greene, Robert Heinecken, Mika Horibuchi, Richard Hunt, Deana Lawson, Krystle Lemonias, Shaun Leonardo, R.H. Quaytman, William J. O’Brien, Irving Petlin, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Nancy Spero, and Norman Zammitt.

Please note that the gallery will keep winter hours, Wednesday to Friday 11am-4pm and Saturday 12pm-4pm, for the duration of January.

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Fringe Figure, Installation View, 2025.
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Fringe Figure, Installation View, 2025.
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Fringe Figure, Installation View, 2025.
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Fringe Figure, Installation View, 2025.
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Fringe Figure, Installation View, 2025.
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Fringe Figure, Installation View, 2025.
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Fringe Figure, Installation View, 2025.
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Fringe Figure, Installation View, 2025.
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Roger Brown, Study for Standing While All Around Are Sinking, 1977/1998, etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, 13.6875 × 13.6875 in. sheet, 15.5 x 15.75 in. framed, (Edition 11/50).
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Mika Horibuchi, Untitled, 2017, graphite on paper, 10 x 8 in. paper, 13.75 x 11.75 in. framed.
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Justin John Greene, Ghost Writer, 2016, oil on canvas, 48 x 40 in.
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Math Bass, Newz!, 2015, offset lithograph in colors on vellum paper, 12.75 x 12 in. sheet, 15 x 14.25 framed, (Edition of 50, initialed and numbered on reverse)
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Nancy Spero, To The Revolution, 1987, ink on rice paper, 11 x 15.5 in.
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William J. O’Brien, Seated, Standing, Farting, 2014, ink on paper, 17 x 14 in. paper, 21 x 18 in. framed.
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Shaun Leonardo, Self Portrait Icon (Sculpture), 2007, marble, 10 x 4 x 10 in.
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Figure (_2100799), 2017, archival inkjet print, 17 x 14 in. sheet, 20.125 x 16.875 in. framed, (Edition 9/50).
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R.H. Quaytman, The Song Cave, 2012,, archival pigment print, 11 x 17 in. sheet, 14 X 20 in. framed, (Edition of 70, stamped and numbered).
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Richard Hunt, Untitled, 1975-1980, lithograph, 22 x 30 in. sheet, 25.25 x 33.25 in. framed, (Edition 48/50).
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Norman Zammitt, Portrait with Red Shoes, 1962, oil on canvas, 45 x 49 in.
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Sterling Ruby, Untitled, 2004, spray paint, colored pencil and collage on paper, 26.375 x 42 in. paper, 32.375 x 48 in. framed.
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Irving Petlin, Joseph and His Brother, 1980, pastel on paper, 30.5 x 20.5 in. paper, 36 x 26 in. framed.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier, Mom Relaxing My Hair, 2005, gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in. sheet, 14 x 17 in. framed, (Edition of 15 and 2AP’s).
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Wells Chandler, Rainbow Body, 2025, hand crocheted assorted fibers, 18 x 13 in.
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Milford Graves, Untitled (In Concert at Yale University), 1966, acrylic on vinyl sleeve, 12 x 12 in. sleeve, 17.5 x 17.5 in. framed.
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Krystle Lemonias, Har pocketbooks; she did say me know bout man a God?, 2023, My sister’s clothes and dishcloths, my mother’s and my clothes, onion mesh, wooden beads, upholstery fabric, grief, prospect, skepticism, relief blocks of my mother’s hands printed on upholstery fabric, 32 x 44.5 in.
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Robert Heinecken, Faded Playmate, 1963, color offset print, 9 x 13.125 in. sheet, 15.25 x 18 in. framed, (Edition 21/40).
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Julie Beaufils, Untitled, 2017, ink on paper, 10 x 12.75 in. paper, 13 x 15.75 in. framed
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Barbara Probst, Exposure #16, N.Y.C., 249 W. 34th Street, 12.07.02, 6:29 pm, 2004, inkjet print, 10.6875 x 14.375 in. sheet, 14.5 x 17.5 framed, (Signed Edition of 30).
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Deana Lawson Coulson Family, 2008, archival inkjet print 7.5 x 10 in. image, 15 x 19 in. framed, (Edition of 50).
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Leon Golub, The Explanation, 1993, color screenprint, 11.625 x 22.25 in. sheet, 14.75 x 25.25 framed.
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Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Que Tal, 2017, colored pencil on paper, 11.75 x 8.25 in. paper, 15 x 11.5 framed.

Exhibition Text

ANDREW RAFACZ is thrilled to begin the new year with Fringe Figure, a group exhibition of paintings, drawings, pastels, prints, textile and sculpture by twenty-three artists, in Galleries One & Two. The exhibition opens Friday, January 10th and continues through Saturday, February 22nd, 2025.

Fringe Figure includes works by Math Bass, Roger Brown, Julie Beaufils, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Wells Chandler, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Leon Golub, Milford Graves, Justin John Greene, Robert Heinecken, Mika Horibuchi, Richard Hunt, Deana Lawson, Krystle Lemonias, Shaun Leonardo, R.H. Quaytman, William J. O’Brien, Irving Petlin, Barbara Probst, Sterling Ruby, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Nancy Spero, and Norman Zammitt.