by Artur Arbit
May 21st, 2005


The Dollhaus Presents Artur Arbit an original Dollhaus artist for his second solo show. Artur Arbit's first solo show at The Dollhaus back in November 2002 where we showed his hand drawn posters for the music scene of Williamsburg as one of the "The Twisted Ones" rock and experimental music promoters. You can still see these posters wheat pasted around Bedford Avenue and other popular walls in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After almost two years we are proud to present Artur Arbit’s new painting series.


There will be approximately 20 paintings in the main gallery space all works are acrylic on canvas. His themes are classically influenced from great religious scenes, nudes, landscapes to important political moments in history. His Crucifixion is of a blue Jesus of unusual proportions reaching out to his weeping crowd, the colors are vibrant and bright and the scenes are surreal and of a dark nature. You will see The Five Musicians, The king and Queen, The Judge, The Beggar and The Dominatrix. Massaca of The Innocent is of a speeding horse drawn carriage full of raging men throwing babies out of the windows. The style is exciting and full of energy and is free and spontaneous and Arbit claims that most of his work is purely experimental and there are no planned concepts or well planned sketches like his previous works on paper.


Arbit takes his inspiration from artists: Max Beckman, Roult, Jean Dubuffet, Bosch and Hogarth.