Anton van Dalen with his pigeons from the documentary "Anton: Circling Home."
Photo by Anthony Lindsey.
Longtime East Village-based artist Anton van Dalen died in his home on June 25. He was 86.
P·P·O·W, the gallery that represented him over the years, is hosting a celebration of his life and work this Saturday afternoon from 2-4 at the SVA Theatre, 333 W. 23rd St., between Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue.
Organizers encourage folks to RSVP, which you can do via this link.
As P·P·O·W stated:
Immigrant, humanist, artist, activist, educator, and lifelong pigeon keeper, Anton van Dalen dedicated his life to documenting the Lower East Side's evolution from dilapidation to gentrification in paintings, drawings and sculptures that, as the critic and poet John Yau states, "arose out of a meticulous draftsmanship in service of an idiosyncratic imagination merged with civic-mindedness."
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