March Avery

The children of artists sometimes resent their parents enough to become lawyers or Wall Street types, though others often follow in mom and/or dad’s footsteps. Such is the case with March Avery, whose father Milton and mother Sally were painters of renown during the heyday of the New York School during the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s. The younger Avery grew up around famous figures such as Mark Rothko, Adolf Gottlieb, Barnett Newman and Marsden Hartley, though style-wise, the apple didn’t fall from the tree: Indeed, Avery’s art is remarkably similar to that of her parents in the way that figures and landscapes are rendered as flat shapes that play host to soft interactions of color and brush stroke. This show, which spans 50 years of work, is the artist’s first NYC solo outing in in nearly 20 years.