A centennial celebration of Roberto Matta’s work opens at The Pace Gallery

NEW YORK, N.Y.- On the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of Matta’s birth, The Pace Gallery presents Matta: A Centennial Celebration, on view at 534 West 25th Street through January 28, 2012. The exhibition focuses on the later years of the artist’s life, featuring 14 paintings, with the largest measuring 13 by 27 feet and many of which have never before been on public view outside Europe. The show follows Matta 1911–2011, a major museum show at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern and [...]

Survey exhibition of paintings and drawings by Hans Burkhardt at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hans Burkhardt’s (1904–1994) expansive career and influence in L.A. are the focus of a survey exhibition of paintings and drawings entitled Hans Burkhardt: Within & Beyond the Mainstream. The exhibition, is part of the October 1 inauguration of the Getty’s initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980. Arriving in L.A. in 1937, following his association with Arshile Gorky, whose studio he shared in New York from 1928-37, Burkhardt represented L.A.’s earliest and most critical link [...]

Exhibition of Paintings and Works on Paper by Cecily Brown at the Gagosian Gallery

LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Cecily Brown, on view from June 8th until July 29th, 2011. Drawing broad inspiration from many forbears, from Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Breughel the Elder, and James Ensor to the abstractions of Arshile Gorky and Philip Guston, Brown brings to the conventions of a traditionally male-dominated history an assertive and, at times, ribald femininity. Revisiting scenes from popular culture as well as Old Master imagery, she creates a [...]

Gagosian Gallery Centers Exhibition on Recent Discovery of Painting by Arshile Gorky

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Arshile Gorky. Centered on the recent discovery of Untitled (Pastoral), a painting from 1947 that has never before been exhibited, “1947” includes paintings and drawings executed by the artist during the last year of his life. Untitled (Pastoral) was found in 2010 during the reframing of the painting Pastoral from the same series. The former was set behind Pastoral on the same stretcher, and remained covered for [...]

Timothy Taylor Presents Ambitious Late Paintings by Abstract Expressionist Hans Hartung

LONDON.- Timothy Taylor Gallery presents an exhibition of ambitious late paintings by the celebrated abstract expressionist Hans Hartung. This is the first exhibition of Hartungs work in London since 1996. The exhibition is on view until April 9, 2011. In his last ten, highly productive years (1980 – 1989), Hans Hartung both expanded upon and revisited many of the themes and techniques that he had used throughout his career. Using spray paint and rollers, garden rakes and olive branches as [...]

Exhibition in Valencia Marks the Centenary of the Birth of Artist Roberto Matta

VALENCIA.- This exhibition, organised by the IVAM, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao and the Sociedad Estatal de Acción Cultural, commemorates the centenary of the birth of 20th century art. The exhibition comprises 32 paintings, some large-format, including a triptych and a polyptych. Matta has been considered the last great surrealist artist because of his importance in this movement during his stay in Paris. In his years of exile in New York, he was the link between surrealism and [...]

Cecily Brown’s First Ever Solo Exhibition in the Netherlands at GEM Museum of Contemporary Art

THE HAGUE.- The new work of New York-based artist Cecily Brown (b.1969) features a medley of grey, red, orange and earth colours applied with vigorous gestures to canvases of many different sizes. Initially, the explicitly sexual content of her pictures attracted attention; more recently, she has increasingly reduced the image to its essentials. Shifting between figuration and abstraction, she uses each approach to reinforce the other, viewing them not as two separate worlds, but as closely interrelated facets of the [...]

AGO to Present Masterworks by Pollock, Rothko, and Others from The Museum of Modern Art

TORONTO.- Jackson Pollock. Mark Rothko. Robert Motherwell. Joan Mitchell. Arshile Gorky. Lee Krasner. Willem de Kooning. These are just a few of the legendary 20th-century artists whose artwork will be on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario in summer 2011 when the Gallery welcomes Abstract Expressionist New York, an exhibition drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The exhibition, on view from May 28 through September 4, 2011, features 100 key works by artists whose radical work [...]

Reginald Marsh Drawings, Andy Warhol Prints Among Highlights of Swann Galleries’ November 18 Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, November 18, Swann Galleries will conduct a two-part sale of American Art & Contemporary Art offering over 100 unique works by significant American artists followed by more than 200 prints, drawings, paintings and multiples by Contemporary European and American artists. The American Art section features works of art that were formerly in the collection of Lloyd Goodrich, an art historian who served as curator and director of the Whitney Museum of American Art. These include [...]

Exhibition of Major Abstract Expressionist Paintings at Gagosian in Beverly Hills

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Masters of the Gesture”, an exhibition of major Abstract Expressionist paintings, drawings and sculptures, including works by John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko, David Smith and Clyfford Still. The exhibition includes loans from key private and public collections. Works in the exhibition explore the range of direct, individualized gestures and dominating physicality that became the distinguishing characteristics of the Abstract Expressionist [...]

Largest Assembly of Cézanne Works Ever on View in Arizona

PHOENIX, AZ.- French master Paul Cézanne, one of the most recognizable names in art, is celebrated worldwide for his Post-Impressionist masterpieces. However, Cezanne’s greatest legacy may be the transformative effect his work had on 20th century artists. Cézanne and American Modernism is the first exhibition to examine Cezanne’s influence on American artists working between 1900 and 1930 by bringing together 16 of the French master’s paintings and works on papers with more than 80 works by 33 American artists, including [...]

Abstract Art in South and North America at the Amon Carter Museum

FORT WORTH, TX.- On June 26, the Amon Carter Museum presents Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to bring together South American and U.S. geometric abstraction and includes a range of paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings and films. Constructive Spirit will be on view through September 5; admission is free. Featuring 85 works by more than 65 abstract artists from Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela, this special [...]

Collectors Compete for American Paintings at Swann Auction Galleries

NEW YORK, NY.- Active bidding by private collectors resulted in a strong auction of American Art and Contemporary Art at Swann Galleries on June 8. The sale’s top lots, offered in the Contemporary Art section, were Louise Nevelson’s Maquette for Monumental Sculpture II, welded black steel, 1977, which sold for $78,000*, and Willem de Kooning’s The Devil at the Keyboard, lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache, 1976, $40,800. Highlights of the American Art section included Landscape, oil on [...]

MOCA is the Only West Coast Venue for Arshile Gorky Retrospective

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective” June 6 through September 20, 2010, at MOCA Grand Avenue. This major traveling retrospective celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (b. c.1902, Khorkom, Armenia; d. 1948 Sherman, Connecticut), a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art in the middle of the 20th century. “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective” positions Gorky as a crucial forerunner of abstract expressionism, and [...]

MoMA Announces Exhibition of Abstract Expressionist Works

NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, The Museum of Modern Art will undertake a complete reinstallation of its fourth floor galleries for painting and sculpture, as well as its collection galleries for drawings and prints, to present Abstract Expressionist New York, a major exhibition tracing the development of Abstract Expressionism from its auspicious beginnings in the 1940s to its seasoned maturity in the 1960s. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s vast holdings of Abstract Expressionist art—a collection whose breadth and depth is [...]

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