FLYING CARPETS BY SCHORR IN ZILKHA; NYC GALLERY IN JANUARY

PROFESSOR of Art David Schorr’s Flying Carpets—New Paintings by David Schorr opened at Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery this fall with a reception and gallery talk. is solo exhibition and the site-specific installation, Flying Carpets, revisits Schorr’s childhood days spent playing with toy vehicles on his grandparents’ carpets. In his talk, Schorr traced his creative path, following the evolution of this series from the image of sturdy metal toys against the colors and patterns of the Persian rugs to the sense of play and abandoned boundaries that child- hood imagination imbued in each. “As my students have heard me say,” he concluded, “Transformation is the most important single factor in the making of art.” The exhibition will open at the Ryan Lee Gallery in New York City in January and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog designed by Schorr, featuring an essay by poet Jonathan Galassi.