New Art by Poetry Illustrator Reuben Negron

Reuben Negron, illustrator for one of our most successful titles, Poetry For Beginners, has a new art show for his series of paintings called “This House of Glass” at the Like the Spice gallery.  The opening reception is this Friday night at 6:30.  

Like the Spice’s own website describes Negron’s exhibition best:

In these new works, each subject is a volunteer, drawn to Negron's project by his desire to unravel a particular knot in their recent memory. He adopts the role of confidant and digests innumerable morsels of honesty over several weeks or months. These conversations turn into visual collaborations between Negron and his model, conceived as a collective narrative told on their terms. He establishes trust with his subjects and ultimately a degree of untouchable intimacy through his pointed engagement. The paintings blossom from layered photographs of each subject in a space associated with his or her anecdote.  Tension builds between strength and fragility, loneliness and confidence, vulnerability and neglect, in Negron's mission to disclose the sitter's mind-frame. The singularity of reality fails in capturing the subject amid their tumultuous circumstances; thus Negron's images are composed of a string of moments rather than a single snapshot. His paintings capture an individual that has considered their own past yet exists in the present amid details of transpired events.

“This House of Glass” will be at Like the Spice from September 9^th until October 9^th, so be sure to stop in and admire his paintings this month in Brooklyn.  Until then, you can preview the series and view his other work on his blog.