Vantage Point 2011 at Forum Gallery

Bride with Cards, Steven Assael

Steven Assael's painting Bride with Cards, is now on display, in the Vantage Point 2011 group exhibition at Forum Gallery, in Manhattan. Steven is a figurative painter with many years of experience in both painting and teaching.  He has taught at the School of Visual Arts and New York Academy of Art.  He is also the reason why I went to see this show last week.  The gallery is located in an upscale neighborhood, on 5th Ave, close to Central Park, across the street from Versace and Louis Vuitton.  Maybe it's because of the location that the asking prices in the gallery are mind blowing...I'm not an art dealer, and don't have much experience with pricing art, but I was quite shocked to see some of the pieces in the gallery are close to or above a million dollars!  Here are some photos of other work in the show, see if you can guess which one is more than $1,600,000.