In 1910 pioneer photographer Eugene Atget made a series of 60 domestic interiors which he presented in album form under the title Interieurs Parisiens, Debut du XXe siecle, Artistique, Pittoresque, et Bourgeois. In 1997 appropriation artist Sherrie Levine rephotographed Atget’s images as part of her ongoing investigation of authenticity and authorship. In 2002 artist Dylan Stone, inspired by the sentimentality of Atget’s work, took the next step by recreating Sherrie Levine’s  images in tiny tour de force tableaus enclosed in shoeboxes. Using painted, hand fashioned cardboard, foamboard and paper cut outs, Stone reinvents Atget’s cluttered interiors in 3 dimensions, exploiting tricks of perspective and  foreshortening and creating magical concoctions.

Kathleen White’s series of paintings titled “Love Letters” are a testament to her passionate commitment to gesture and color as avatars of sentiment. An accumulation of several years work this series is dedicated to people living and dead, intended as visual communications of the artist’s intangible feelings. The flesh colored palette and expressive mark making, recall the work of Guston and Twombly but the subtelty and delicacy of White’s touch and formal considerations are her unique contribution to abstraction.