“Operation Pillow Fight” Greene Street Gallery in Soho Written and Photographed by Linus Gelber Opposite Art by Abshalom Jac Lahav

There’s something about a pillow fight. Just ask Abshalom Jac Lahav (www.actiondocument.com), whose plushy roundhouse “Operation Pillow Fight” show ran at the Greene Street Gallery this October. Lahav’s large new paintings feature young girls in and out of their nightwear, pillow-fighting happily in a haze of wholesome innocence. Or is it wholesome? The work runs the narrow line between erotic charge and chaste abandon. And to set the mood for the festivities, there was a live pillow fight in the gallery on opening night.

Art by Abshalom Jac Lahav

Abshalom Jac Lahav

New York Cool loves a good pillow fight as much as anyone (more, probably) and we were there for the happening.

Sharing space (but not pillows) is a delightful selection of Michael Alan’s (www.michaelalanart.com) creature paintings and fanciful studies in pencil, pen, watercolor, marker, and whimsy. Alan’s fine lines are stern or flagrant, now austere and now arching skyward portraying strange landscapes and intricate faces.

Art by Abshalom Jac Lahav

Opening Night Pillow Fight

Opening Night Pillow Fight


Art by Michael Alan

Art by Michael Alan

Art by Michael Alan

The Greene Street Gallery is located at 62 Greene Street in Soho. The show has ended.