Last Wednesday, night I attended the Artlog's ACP members gathered at Zürcher Studio on the Lower East Side for a private holiday party with young patrons from the Museum of Arts and Design. Ákos Birkás' solo show had opened the previous night, and the Hungarian artist's luminous paintings dominated the space.
In an informal Q&A with Gwenolee Zürcher, Birkás described switching to figurative painting after twenty years of abstraction: "Like leaving one woman for another - difficult when you have children, abstract children." Throughout the evening, members mingled, enjoyed the open bar, and, in keeping with the holiday spirit, took home gift bags from Club Monaco.
