Head of a Pin – Works of Michael Netter
Date: June 6 – 28, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1-4pm
Opening Reception – Saturday, June 6, 5-7pm
Amity Gallery: 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick, NY 10990
The June Exhibit at the Amity Gallery, “Head of a Pin”, showcases Michael Netter’s works that are about flight… angels and earthlings soaring, drifting and tumbling through the sky. He builds these paintings layer by layer, with traces of earlier wallpaper and images visible underneath, so the surfaces carry a sense of time passing even as the images feel immediate. The stenciled figures are meant to feel timeless and familiar, like something you may have seen before but can’t remember where. Nothing is spelled out — the meaning is yours to complete. The title nods to the old philosophical riddle — how many angels can dance on the head of a pin — that question being less about angels than about the nature of the infinite. Netter works through layering, erasure and reworking, he seeks “art by chance”: surfaces built up until something emerges that couldn’t have been planned. He wants his “paintings to feel spontaneous but with a history underneath.”
Netter came of age as an artist in the 1970’s and worked with Andy Warhol documenting The Factory Diaries which are permanently installed at the Warhol Museum. He began painting privately on the Bowery for decades before his debut solo show, Cryptographics, at ACA Galleries in 2016, where he is represented. Netter’s works are widely shown nationally and internationally.
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