Gallery 128 on Manhattans Lower East Side Presents Jeff Shurdut and Billy Bang in a painting performance on March 31, 2002 from 7-9pm. Address: 128 Rivington Street, NYC. For more information call: 212.396.3800.
Shurdut brings his paintings back to where it all began on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His Great Grandparents came to America from Eastern Europe and passed through Ellis Island like millions of others. The Lower East Side represents beginnings and is an ideal place to reflect on the American Dream. It went from a place of opportunity for the have-nots to opportunity for the haves. It couldn’t be any more perfect because it’s real.” Shurdut says, “Rockwell illustrated life the way he wanted it to be. I paint it the way it really is.”
The legendary Cecil Taylor has called Jeff “Unique,” and an “Intellect; Provocateur.”
The New York Times says Shurdut has “Talent,” with paintings “Wildly colorful and abstract.”
“The cost and psychological price for 'freedom' today is increasingly challenged.” -Jeff Shurdut
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