Fasanella Exhibits Continue
Wednesday, June 11, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Exhibits
of painter Ralph Fasanella's work continue at both the Smithsonian American Art
Museum and the AFL-CIO. "Fasanella, who would have been 100 this September,
is being feted with “Lest We
Forget,” an
exhibition whose title refers to a
mantra of this lifelong lefty," writes Michael
O'Sullivan in The
Washington Post. "That title — more of a rallying cry, really
— is meant to honor the common laborers who teem by the hundreds, even
thousands, in his dense, panoramic vistas of his native New York and other
metropolises." And in Portside, Bill Mosley writesthat
"Fasanella’s paintings are not all workers’ struggles and political
anguish. Many of his works also depict the joy of community, of
neighborhood, or workingmen and their families enjoying a respite from
difficult lives." Both shows continue through August.