Thursday's parting shot

Here's one of the paintings by Bill Rice featured in the exhibit, "Around the Corner" at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, 208 Forsyth St. between Houston and Stanton. (Previously mentioned here.)

Here's a snippet of a review of the show via Hyperallergic today...

Bill Rice's paintings ... are glimpses of East Village life — the old East Village of crime, abandonment, and cruising, of obscure figures with good muscle tone, surreptitious oral favors in the parks and alleys, stoop-front sales, and hanging out. His surfaces are slowly built up from thin layers of oil paint with an occasional putty-like vector or a colored stripe or, at times, a skeletal architecture or diamond-shaped fence pattern. Looking at his works we are moving constantly, roving, scanning the neighborhood where he had lived since 1953, when rent controls were still in place and you could get by on a few welfare checks and some decent luck.

Rice lived on East Third Street for more than 50 years and opened a gallery there in the 1980s. 

The show runs through May 13. Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, noon-6 p.m. or by appointment.