The gallery is happy to present this special surprise exhibition of five new paintings by Stephen Bron Gurtowski, titled "It's Beautiful Today". This show is a follow up to his recent summer exhibition, "Dancing Barefoot". Juxtaposing large  swaths of brushed color, finely detailed figures, and his characteristic  use of the untouched canvas as light, Stephen Bron Gurtowski creates  paintings that oscillate in the liminal space between abstraction and  figuration. Sourcing images from old books and magazines, his own  photographs of nature and his domestic life, and the realm of the  imagination, Gurtowski’s paintings are an amalgamation of the dream  world and the everyday. Gurtowski crafts worlds where naked boys dance  barefoot, where flowers might be as big as trees, where bear cubs watch  over beautiful rebels, and where an out-of-time woman might burst forth  fully formed from a figure sleeping in grass as butterflies flit about.  A number of these paintings were influenced by his recent time spent in Provincetown. Abstraction and Figuration. The Past and The Present. The Mundane and  the Fantastic. All these elements combine to create his idiosyncratic  and colorful Queer fables.
Stephen  Bron Gurtowski [b. 1993] is a painter living and working in Brooklyn.  He studied painting and printmaking, receiving his BFA from Cooper  Union, attended Yale Norfolk Summer School, and received an MFA in  Painting from NYU.