For Stipan Tadić there is always romance. In Visions of the City a series of paintings come tantalizingly close to forming a complete story arc. Dense with imagery, Tadic articulates in a style that negotiates the art historical into the proletarian grammar of comic books, arriving at a core which defies boundaries, in which Medieval illuminated manuscripts mingle with video game aesthetics and 1980’s neon. Here, vignettes surface, of people haunted and depressed, of Tadić himself, and most of all, of life in New York City. The intestinal tangle of pathways and trees are lit by streaks of light; the journey of a protagonist described in glyphs which zoom in on his journey. Three men, lonely, Balkan, their faces smushed by their drunkenness. A bar scene transported from the din of Eastern Europe into the United States. Visions of the City is on view until July 31, 2022. Images: Central Park, 2022 Oil on canvas 78h x 60w in Two Croatians and one Albanian at the Magician, 2022 Oil on canvas 24h x 30w in #StipanTadić #ATMgalleryNYC @stipan.tadic