Lui Shtini Some

January 24 - December 12, 2015

West Wing

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Lui Shtini

Verd
2014
oil on board
20 x 16 inches

Lui Shtini

Truz
2014
oil on board
20 x 16 inches

Lui Shtini

Furr
2014
oil on board
20 x 16 inches

Lui Shtini

Flaka
2014
oil on board
20 x 16 inches

Lui Shtini

Gzof
2014
oil on board
20 x 16 inches

Installation view

Press Release

Opening Friday, December 12th, 5:00-8:00pm

In the West Wing, CvsD is delighted to present five new paintings by the Albanian-born, New York-based painter Lui Shtini.

With an uncanny sense for the play of textures, color, and form, Shtini makes odd and surprising portraits. Spiritually connected to Imagists like Christina Ramberg and Barbara Rossi, Shtini’s works are potentially alien and allusively sexual, with an underlying tenderness that belies their immaculate construction