East Village

Deshuk was part of the East Village art scene of the early 1980s, performing at Club 57 and Performance Space 122 while painting the neighborhood around her. Her method was consistent for years: photograph the people she passed on the street, then work the photographs up into paintings. What survives is less a set of portraits than a record of particular corners at particular moments - the crowd outside Gem Spa, a bookseller on Saint Marks Place, someone crossing Third Avenue.

She kept at it as the neighborhood changed around her, which is what turned the paintings into a chronicle rather than a snapshot.

37 paintings

Daria Deshuk

East Village

[Untitled] Flowers Forever

[Untitled] A Family Crossing

[Untitled] Downtown Offset

Crossing Kate 3RD Ave

[Unittled] Blue Grey Leather Jacket

[Untitled] A Jazzy City Scene

"Young American" East Village

Saint Marks Place

The Band

Yellow Eyes

[Untitled] Yellow Cab

[Untitled] Walking in the Fall

[Untitled] Sunday in the Park

[Untitled] Red Fashion

[Untitled] Pink Suit

[Untitled] Man with Sunglasses

Yellow Afternoon

Untitled [The Devil and The Princess]

Union Square

Street Scene

Cocktail Lounge

Money for the Arts "power to the people"

Money for the Arts

Luciel Roberts Family Portrait

Brothers

Couples Hug

Book Sale- Saint Marks Place

Early Morning East Village

GemSpa-Dogs:Outrun

A Quick Pizza

A Quick Pizza Small

72 Faces on Plywood

14th Street Windows

Sockman St. Marks Place

St.Marks Bike

St. Marks Crossing w: Child

[Unititled] St. Marks