The Byram business district was its typical hub of activity Friday night, and the formal reception for Art Powers’ newly opened “Art & Sound” at 101 Mill Street, drew a crowd to mingle and enjoy the paintings of Thomas Misisco, a Greenwich-based abstract artist. Mr. Misisco, who uses vivid colors and counts Jackson Pollock among his inspirations, said he took up painting as a way to relax after work. Describing how the hours melt away while he has a paintbrush in hand, Misisco’s technique is reminiscent of the famous drip and splatter paintings that Mr. Pollock began to produce in the late 1940s. In fact, Mr. Misisco admitted that one painting in the gallery was created by another painter. Pointing to a large black and white drip painting in the back of the gallery, he said Mr. Powers stumbled on it in a storage area of a Rye, NY apartment building he lived in many years ago, adding that Mr. Pollock had once lived in the building himself. Continue Reading →
