Alexander Kaletski, "Red Carpet"

This double show at Boone's midtown space and at Anna Zorina Gallery in Chelsea presents work by this Russian artist born in 1946. An actor and writer, as well as an artist, Kaletski has lived in the U.S. since 1975, when he left the former Soviet Union under political duress. His paintings deal with political and pop-cultural themes in a style that recalls Russian Folk Art, and is employed here to explore the color red's associations with ideological orthodoxy (as in the Communist flag) and celebrity (as in Hollywood's red carpet).