PRIMITIVE Modern Fine Art

A concrete wall. An antique bronze on the table in front of it. Between them, a painting by a living hand.

PRIMITIVE Modern is contemporary painting, drawing and printmaking by living artists. Brian Sindler, trained in Chicago at the American Academy of Art and in a French-style atelier, paints landscapes, port towns and nocturnes in oil, acrylic and gouache from a five-color palette. Bob Meyer, Chicago-born and now working in a village near Giverny, makes pencil drawings, pastels, lithographs and oils peopled with wind-up toys and theatrical figures, titled like the first lines of stories. Mark Westervelt completes the group, and limited-edition prints, including Sindler’s Tuscany gouaches, carry the work onto paper.

Hung among antique objects, contemporary work and old things sharpen each other.

Old and new, arguing amiably.