Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Paul Wackers’ eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. Some of the paintings in Fresh Cut mark a departure from Wackers’ earlier work. He has previously painted flowers presented as arrangements in vases. This body of work includes many paintings that focus in on the complexity and quantity of blooms presented at flower stands. Wackers lives and works in New York city. The vivid floral pieces depict the return and renewed exuberance of post-pandemic life in New York. The paintings seem to communicate the activity on the streets, the rejuvenation of culture, and the return to community. They also allow the artist to play with form and repetition as he paints a variety of…