james fuentes
Ed Baynard was raised in Washington, DC and lived in Paris and London during the 1960s, before settling in New York in 1971. Artistically prolific and multi-dimensional, he became a fixture in the city's queer creative circles crossing art, music, fashion, and graphic design. Anchoring his five-decade career, Baynard's paintings are astonishingly elegant in their restraint. Placing highly stylized flowers, plants, and vessels with bursts of color and trompe l’oeil details against flat monochrome backgrounds, he infuses romantic subject matter with minimalist form.
Kikuo Saito (1939-2016) was born in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1966 at the age of 26. Upon his arrival, Saito immersed himself in the experimental, interdisciplinary climate of New York's Downtown art scene, developing distinctive styles in various media that united color and choreography, bringing theatre into painting and painting into theatre. Fascinated by the pictorial capacities of language, his paintings created visual codes not only to move the eye around the canvas, but also to suggest how bodies might move or be moved across a stage, as if color itself were being dramatized.
Untitled, 1978
Ed Baynard
Signed and dated recto
Watercolor on paper
29 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches
32 1/2 x 44 1/2 inches (framed)
Point Piper, 1979
Kikuo Saito
Signed
Oil on canvas
47 7/8 x 49 1/4 inches
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