I was out shopping for some jeans this evening and ended up finding some quality artwork for sale on the way home. Red Truck Gallery , a moving artist collective  has set up shop on the corner of Broome and Mott this month. Tonight was their opening party featuring lowbrow, folk, and outsider artwork from Chris Roberts-Antieau, Ross Bonafanto , Matthew Cox, Brian Cunningham , Jason Houchen, Dean Lucker, Frank Relle, and john Wipple. Organizer Noah Antieau has assembled his group of artist from the people he is closest to including his own mother who all happen to be talented artist.

Many of the pieces left me wishing I had thought of their cool techniques myself. Like the cement stuffed animals by Ross Bonfanti.  The tin pull tabs used to fasten the canvas to the frames of Brian Cunningham's paintings are genius. Chris Roberts-Antieau has done a quiltwork George Washington that hangs in the White House. A truly talented and inventive stable of artist

Tonight was the first time I walked into a gallery of strangers and walked out feeling like I had been hanging out with my friends. It was nice to  witness such a personal and intimate approach to showing artwork and I hope these guys's time in New York is well spent so we can look forward to seeing more work come our way. What I'm really looking forward to is bringing home my new painting.

The show runs until November 30th. 

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