ARTNEWS
Mark Innerst
Mark Innerst has long been a close observer of the urban scene, particularly those vertiginous interstices of luminous sky that interrupt Manhattan's staunchly vertical landscape. He works in a small format, layering acrylic or oil on board or canvas to achieve a jewel-like finish, and his handsome, handmade frames enhance the precious (in the best sense) quality of his paintings.
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THE NEW YORKER
Mark Innerst
Small, lustrous new paintings by this poetic realist go beyond retro. Views of Manhattan streets and of beaches and an amusement park in New Jersey suggest history in reverse, arriving at a genteel variant of Impressionism - think of the seaside painter Eugene Boudin - with trace memories of abstraction, Cubism, and Symbolism.
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THE NEW YORK SUN
Wheel of Light
In his recent paintings, Mark Innerst focuses on amusement parks and expansive, shoreline landscapes, inspired by his part-time residence at Cape May, N.J., which is near an amusement park in Wildwood.
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ART IN AMERICA
Mark Innerst at Paul Kasmin
Mark Innerst's new paintings offer strong doses of both culture and nature. The nature quotient in this show was a group of brooding forest scenes, made after 9/11 when the artist sought refuge at his house in the Pennsylvania woods.
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TIME OUT NEW YORK
Mark Innerst
Mark Innerst has been making lovely paintings of New York City for at least two decades. Now he's becoming something of a Hudson River painter as well, though the part of that waterway that has caught his attention lies not in Thomas Cole territory upstate but just beyond Innerst's own gallery in Chelsea.
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VOGUE
Scape Artist
Mark Innerst, known for his jewel-like, light-filled paintings of landscapes and cityscapes, has done an about-face. His new paintings are the largest he's ever done - up to 40 inches tall. He's left his dealer of fifteen years (Curt Marcus) and is having his first show with the Paul Kasmin Gallery this month.
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ART & ANTIQUES
Innerst Visions
Traveling westbound on Interstate 287 in Westchester County, New York, one emerges from a corridor of trees and comes upon a wide ribbon of river. Crossing it on a laced metal bridge, one sees two expansive views vying for attention: one south to Manhattan, and the other north to the palisades of Rockland County and beyond.
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