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Unexpected Beauty

“Vadnais breaks with tradition and adopts the modernists’ love of paint itself.”

New York Views

Neighbors, by Vadnais, represents the “early evening where you can sense activity all around without knowing anything concrete,” the artist remarks. “The single figure silhouetted against the window, combined with the general obscurity of the scene, symbolizes for me the tension between connectedness and isolation that New York City life embodies.”

Simplifying the city

“All of the paintings are of New York, but the thing that I think is different about them is they’re very specific paintings of specific places, but they’re generalized…,” elaborates Vadnais. “I don’t pick recognizable locations, but they still have the general aspect of a particular area.”