Cheim & Read - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Cheim & Read. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Peter Shear “Following Sea”
Cheim & Read presents Following Sea, an exhibition of new paintings by Peter Shear, whose work was recently featured in Regarding Kimber, the gallery’s homage to the painter Kimber Smith. A self-taught...More »
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Joel Mesler “The Rabbis”
Cheim & Read presents Joel Mesler: The Rabbis, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. With The Rabbis, Joel Mesler takes...More »
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Ron Gorchov “Watercolors of the 60s and 70s”
Cheim & Read presents Ron Gorchov: Watercolors of the 60s and 70s, an exhibition of intimate, revelatory works by one of the most influential painters of the past half-century. This is the artist’s...More »
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“Some People” Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents Some People, a thematic group exhibition that explores portraiture from the 1930s to the present day, and features over thirty artists. The title of the show is borrowed from...More »
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Milton Resnick “Paintings 1954 – 1957”
Cheim & Read present Milton Resnick: Paintings 1954 - 1957. In BW and Alice, both from 1957 and on view in this exhibition, Resnick combines thick black lines, muscular shapes, and brooding color...More »
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Serge Poliakoff “Gouaches 1938 – 1969”
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Matthew Wong “Footprints in the Wind, Ink Drawings 2013–2017”
Cheim & Read presents Matthew Wong: Footprints in the Wind, Ink Drawings 2013–2017, an exhibition of ink drawings on rice paper. These works represent some of the late Canadian artist’s very first...More »
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Marco Pariani Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new paintings by Marco Pariani in collaboration with The Journal Gallery. Marco Pariani is an Italian artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. After regularly...More »
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Lynda Benglis “Early Work 1967–1979”
Ortuzar Projects and Cheim & Read presents Lynda Benglis: Early Work 1967-1979. Across three spaces in uptown and downtown Manhattan, this major exhibition includes significant work from the artist’s...More »
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Kimber Smith “Paintings 1967 – 1980”
Cheim & Read presents Kimber Smith, Paintings: 1967 – 1980, the gallery’s first exhibition with the artist, and his first exhibition in the US since 2011. Kimber Smith (USA; born 1922 Boston, MA;...More »
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“In Honor of the New MoMA” Exhibition
In October 2019, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, reopened its doors after a significant renovation that included a complete overhaul to the presentation of its permanent collection. In an attempt to...More »
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Ron Gorchov Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents the inaugural exhibition of its new East 67th Street location, Ron Gorchov: at the cusp of the 80s, paintings 1979–1983. This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery. The...More »
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Louise Bourgeois “Spiral”
Cheim & Read present Louise Bourgeois: Spiral, the gallery’s ninth solo exhibition devoted to the artist’s work. The show will explore the range of Bourgeois’ spiral motifs as expressed in sculpture,...More »
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Joan Mitchell “Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953–1962”
Cheim & Read presents its next exhibition, Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953–1962. This is the ninth exhibition of Mitchell’s work that will be presented by the gallery....More »
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Laurel Sparks, Lily Stockman, and Richard Tinkler Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents All over the moon curated by Jack Pierson, an exhibition showcasing the work of three abstract painters: Laurel Sparks, Lily Stockman, and Richard Tinkler. The paintings of...More »
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Al Held “Paris to New York 1952−1959”
Cheim & Read and Nathalie Karg Gallery presents Al Held: Paris to New York 1952−1959, an exhibition of experimental works in pigment and wax that anticipate the painter’s well-known, epic-scaled geometric...More »
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Ghada Amer Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of recent painting and sculpture by Ghada Amer. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, with an essay by Jenni Sorkin. This is Amer’s fourth solo show...More »
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Milton Resnick “Boards 1981–1984”
Cheim & Read presents Milton Resnick: Boards : Boards 1981–1984, an exhibition of thickly painted, mostly monochromatic works that Resnick made during the 1980s on wax-impregnated, corrugated boards....More »
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Barry Mcgee Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new work by Barry McGee, accompanied by a catalogue with essay by Katya Tylevich. This is the artist’s second show with the gallery. Barry McGee is an artist...More »
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Donald Baechler Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new work by Donald Baechler. This is the artist’s seventh solo show at the gallery, where he also co-curated the group exhibition, I Won’t Grow Up, in 2008. With...More »
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Louise Fishman
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Fishman, accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Aruna D’Souza. This is the artist’s eighth solo exhibition at the gallery. Fishman’s...More »
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“The Horizontal” Exhibition
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Chantal Joffe Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new works by the American-born British painter Chantal Joffe. With influences ranging from Piero della Francesca to Edgar Degas and Francis Bacon, Joffe has...More »
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Sean Scully “Wall Of Light Cubed”
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and sculpture by Sean Scully. In this show, Scully underscores the interplay between his two-dimensional and three-dimensional work,...More »
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Ron Gorchov Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new paintings by Ron Gorchov. With this exhibition, Gorchov continues his “Arguments with Rectangles, Flatness and Dimension,” to invoke the title of a series...More »
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Louise Bourgeois “Holograms”
Cheim & Read presents Louise Bourgeois: Holograms, the first exhibition devoted exclusively to this little-known aspect of the artist’s long, groundbreaking career. In 1998 Bourgeois was approached...More »
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Tal R “Keyhole”
Cheim & Read presents Tal R: Keyhole, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by the Copenhagen-based artist. This is the third solo exhibition of Tal R’s work at the gallery. Several years...More »
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Joan Mitchell “Drawing into Painting”
Cheim & Read presents Joan Mitchell: Drawing into Painting, a survey of works on canvas and paper from 1958 through 1992, the year of the artist’s death. For Mitchell, drawing and painting were...More »
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Lynda Benglis “New Work”
Cheim & Read presents Lynda Benglis: New Work. A catalogue will be available with an essay by Nancy Princenthal. This is Benglis’s sixth exhibition with the gallery. Since the 1960s, Lynda Benglis...More »
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“The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men” Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men, a group exhibition of thirty-two women artists, and their variegated portrayals of men, curated by John Cheim. The Female Gaze,...More »
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Juan Uslé “Membrana Porosa”
Cheim & Read presents Membrana Porosa—an exhibition of recent paintings by Spanish artist Juan Uslé. Uslé has been showing with Cheim & Read since 1997; his last exhibition with the gallery was...More »
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Serge Poliakoff Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents a survey of paintings by one of the foremost post-war European abstractionists, the Russian-born Serge Poliakoff (1900–1969), curated by Joe Fyfe. At a moment when the accepted...More »
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Al Held “Black and White Paintings 1967−1969”
Cheim & Read presents eight monumental black and white paintings, dating from 1967 to 1969, Al Held (1928–2005). An exhibition of Held’s “Alphabet Paintings,” made between 1961 and 1967, was exhibited...More »
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Jonathan Lasker Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of recent work, including a series of black and white drawings, by Jonathan Lasker. Lasker’s previous show with the gallery, comprised of early work (1977–1985),...More »
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Donald Baechler “Early Work 1980 to 1984”
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of Donald Baechler’s early paintings and collages on paper. These works represent the genesis of the artist’s iconic vocabulary of symbols and techniques. The exhibition...More »
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Louise Fishman Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Fishman. The work will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Alex Greenberger. Her last show with the gallery was in 2012. ...More »
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Adam Fuss Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of recent work by Adam Fuss. His previous solo show with the gallery was in 2010. Born in London in 1961, Fuss has lived in New York for over thirty years. Known...More »
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Jack Pierson Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents its sixth exhibition by the artist Jack Pierson. This will be his first solo exhibition at the gallery in six years. The new body of work is comprised from over 150 small...More »
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Chantal Joffe “Night Self-Portraits”
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of recent self-portraits by British painter Chantal Joffe. This is Joffe’s third show at the gallery. It will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay...More »
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Bill Jensen Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Bill Jensen. Jensen, who turns 70 this year, has been represented by the gallery since 2007. Bill Jensen’s paintings are the result of...More »
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Sean Scully “Landline”
Cheim & Read presents Landline, an exhibition of eight new paintings by the Irish-born American artist Sean Scully. Begun in 2013, Scully’s Landline series resonates with newfound urgency and freedom....More »
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Tal R “Altstadt Girl”
For the past two years, Tal R has been drawing women in confined interior spaces – hotel rooms, bedrooms, corridors, in the shower, and in front of mirrors. Though carefully chosen, his subjects are strangers...More »
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Louise Bourgeois Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of hanging works by renowned French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). The exhibition will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with a text by Robert...More »
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Jenny Holzer “Dust Paintings”
Jenny Holzer has used government documents as a source for her work since 2004. Language has been Holzer’s primary medium since the late 1970s. Placed on electronic signs or stone benches, Holzer’s text...More »
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Joan Mitchell “Trees”
Dating from 1964 to 1991, the paintings in this exhibition are inspired by the form and structure of trees. Known for her expressionistic, visceral explorations of the natural landscape, Mitchell abstracted...More »
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Ghada Amer “Rainbow Girls”
Ghada Amer is well known for brightly-colored, embroidered “paintings” in which depictions of women, often appropriated from soft-porn magazines, are carefully stitched and sewn on the canvas. Extra thread...More »
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Pat Steir Exhibition
Pat Steir is known for paintings in which paint is dripped, splashed and poured on canvas, resulting in fields of lush, saturated color. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1940, Steir began showing in the...More »
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Lynda Benglis Exhibition
Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1941, Lynda Benglis moved to New York City in the late 60s. Her early, ground-breaking work – landscape-like, sculptural installations of poured polyurethane foam and...More »
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Sean Scully “Night and Day”
Sean Scully is known for rich, painterly abstractions in which stripes or blocks of layered color are a prevailing motif. The delineated geometry of his work provides structure for an expressive, physical...More »
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Barry McGee Exhibition
Born in 1966, Barry McGee is arguably the most well-known and influential of the recent surge of artists from the Bay Area to have international success. He was raised in San Francisco, studied painting...More »
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“Reinventing Abstraction” Exhibition
This exhibition focuses on New York abstraction in the 1980s as practiced by a generation of painters born between 1939 and 1949. Official accounts of the 1980s-the decade when most of these artists either...More »
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Jannis Kounellis Exhibition
Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece in 1936. World War II and ten years of civil war were backdrops to his childhood. In 1956, he moved to Rome and by 1960 was an active member of the Arte Povera movement....More »
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Al Held "Alphabet Paintings"
Curated from several private collections, the show presents a unique opportunity to see first-hand the geometric, "hard-edge" works that defined Held's artistic output for almost a decade. The exhibition...More »
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"Suspicious of rooms without music or atmosphere" Exhibition
David McDermott and Peter McGough (born 1952 and 1958 respectively) attended the University of Syracuse in the 1970s. In the 80s, the two were known in New York City's East Village art scene for their...More »
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Tal R "The Shlomo"
Tal R was born Tal Rosenzweig in Tel Aviv in 1967 to a Danish mother and Czechoslovakian Jewish father. Raised in Denmark, his childhood was defined by his family’s split identity: the orderly Scandinavian...More »
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Louise Fishman Exhibition
Known for gestural abstractions characterized by unique intersections of color and space, Fishman has long recognized the effects of personal, cultural and political experience on her work. Many of the...More »
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Bianca Casady "Daisy Chain"
The show will present installation works, drawings, collages, photographs, audio and projected video works. Casady's recent group of works address ideas of gender and race, especially as they are played...More »
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Alex Van Gelder "Line of Inquiry"
Van Gelder's most recent photographic series is a meditation on death, disintegration, and decay. In subtly toned platinum prints, he takes as his subject matter glass-printed sepulchral portraits found...More »
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Chantal Joffe Exhibition
Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe received an undergraduate degree at Glasgow School of Art (the school was chosen partly because it offered figure painting, which has always been her subject), and her Master's...More »
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Ron Gorchov Exhibition
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Ron Gorchov, curated by Phong Bui. Born in Chicago in 1930, Ron Gorchov has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1950s. Following...More »
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Jonathan Lasker "Early Works 1977 - 1985"
The show groups together twenty seminal paintings, dating from 1977-1985, which attest to the origins of Lasker's methodology, and ideas about abstraction, figuration and language. His consistent, critical...More »
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Bill Jensen Exhibition
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1945, Bill Jensen has lived and worked in New York since the early 1970s, and was one of the first artists to establish a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He came into...More »
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Joan Mitchell "The Last Paintings"
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) moved from Chicago to New York in 1947. Early in her career, she was included in the historically significant 1951 Ninth Street Exhibition. Organized by Leo Castelli, the show...More »
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Milton Resnick "The Elephant in the Room"
Born in Bratslav, Ukraine in 1917, Milton Resnick immigrated to the United States with his family in 1922, escaping the civil war of his homeland. In 1933, he left his studies in commercial art at Pratt...More »
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"The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition"
Many of the works in this exhibition will be shown for the first time. The ten artists represented engage a variety of artistic processes and thematic concerns; their diversity provides substantial evidence...More »
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Louise Bourgeois "The Fabric Works"
Dating from 2002 – 2010, Bourgeois’s fabric “drawings” - assembled from discarded clothes, sheets, towels and similar material from her personal collection - became a central focus in the last decade of...More »
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Juan Uslé "Desplazado"
Cheim & Read presents "Desplazado" - an exhibition of recent paintings by Spanish artist Juan Uslé. Uslé has been showing with Cheim & Read since 1997; his last exhibition with the gallery was...More »
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Pat Steir "Winter Paintings"
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Pat Steir. The show is accompanied by a full color catalogue with essays by Kay Larson and Matthew Israel. Steir's last show with Cheim &...More »
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Ghada Amer "100 Words of Love"
In the gallery's dome room, Cheim & Read exhibit2 a new sculpture by Ghada Amer, entitled 100 Words of Love, 2010. The piece is comprised of one hundred Arabic words for love. Calligraphic inter-twining...More »
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David McDermott and Peter McGough "Of Beauty and Being"
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new work by the collaborative artists McDermott & McGough. Their previous show with Cheim & Read was in 2008. David McDermott and Peter McGough (born...More »
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Hans Hartung "The Last Paintings 1989"
Cheim & Read is presents a landmark exhibition of Hans Hartung’s late paintings, dating from 1987–1989. This is the first showing of Hartung’s works in New York since his controversial 1975 exhibition...More »
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"From a collection of Abstract Works on Paper 1941 - 1971" Exhibition
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Adam Fuss "Home and the World"
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of new work by Adam Fuss. The show is accompanied by a full color catalogue with an essay by Joseph Koerner. Fuss’s previous show with the gallery was in 2003. Adam...More »
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"Le Tableau" Exhibition
Le Tableau places emphasis on the particular orientation towards painting practice by artists identified with France of the present time and the recent past and of selected western contemporaries. Organized...More »
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Ghada Amer "Color Misbehavior"
Cheim & Read announces an exhibition of recent work by Ghada Amer. This is Amer's first solo show with the gallery. It will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an interview by Maura Reilly. Ghada...More »
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Donald Baechler "New Work"
Cheim & Read announces an exhibition of recent paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Donald Baechler. Baechler's previous solo show with the gallery was in 2006. Donald Baechler was born in...More »
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Diane Arbus and William Eggleston Exhibitions
Cheim & Read presents two concurrent photography exhibitions featuring, respectively, a selection of rarely shown photographs by Diane Arbus and new work by William Eggleston. The installation of Arbus's...More »
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Jack Pierson "Abstracts"
Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of abstract sculpture by multi-media artist Jack Pierson Jack Pierson was born in 1960 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Massachusetts College...More »
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"Abstractions by Gallery Artists" Exhibiton
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"The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-06-25 - 2009-09-19
A variety of mediums will be shown —sculpture, photography, video, painting and installation—and several different women artists represented. This exhibition attempts to debunk the notion of the male gaze...More »
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Louise Fishman Exhibition
Now seventy years old, Fishman is from a generation of artists that includes Brice Marden (age 70), Mary Heilmann (age 68), Robert Mangold (age 71), Lynda Benglis (age 67), Bill Jensen (age 63), Pat Steir...More »
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Don Bachardy "Christopher Isherwood; Last Drawing"
Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of drawings by Los Angeles painter Don Bachardy. The show intimately documents the last six months of esteemed writer Christopher Isherwood's life....More »
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Joan Mitchell "Sunflowers"
Joan Mitchell "Sunflowers," is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the artist. The earliest date from the late 60's and culminate with large diptychs painted the year before Mitchell died...More »
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Louise Bourgeois "Echo"
[Image: Louise Bourgeois "ECHO I" (2007) Bronze painted white, and steel 76 x 17 x 14 in.]More »
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"I Won't Grow Up" Exhibiton
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2008-06-26 - 2008-08-29
"I Won't Grow Up" presents works in various media by a variety of artists that embrace a child-like sensibility. These artists, gaining inspiration from childhood, incorporate compositional elements which...More »
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Milton Resnick "A Question of Seeing: Paintings 1959-1963"
Milton Resnick was born in Bratslav, Ukraine and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1922. He began studying commercial art at Pratt Institute, but in 1933 transferred to the American Artists...More »
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McDermott & McGough "Because of Him"
Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of painting and sculpture by the collaborative duo McDermott & McGough. Their last show with Cheim & Read was in 2006. A full-color catalogue...More »