Play with Scale
Upper Gallery
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
Katherine Bradford
Beverly Buchanan
Anthony Caro
Ann Craven
Enzo Cucchi
Angela Dufresne
Pam Glick
Ottavio Leoni
José Lerma
Massimo Micheluzzi
Elizabeth Murray
Jules Olitski
Beverly Pepper
Winfred Rembert
Jackie Saccoccio
Peter Sacks
Kikuo Saito
Myron Stout
Terry Winters
Guy Yanai
"I’ve always been interested in scale-free images. I’m after pictures that have a multiplicity of readings. The paintings are all actual sizes, but the depicted images don’t have a specific size or scale. I’m interested in that mobility. Creating an image that is fluid and abstract."
Terry Winters
"As a teenager, I remember Philip Johnson walking down his backyard and pointing out a little pavilion that he had built. He said he intentionally made it smaller because he wanted to play with scale. This was the first time I had heard a grown man say, 'play with scale,' and I thought, 'Whoa. Who is this guy?'"
Katherine Bradford
"[With Murray's] representations of cups, it is both a 'picture' of that subject and a monumental (and monumentally disturbing) indication of what a painting can be. The drastic increase in the size of the subject... creates a honey-I-shrunk-the-beholder compression."
Carroll Dunham, Artforum
"[Saccoccio's] paintings are remarkably dependent on scale. They project the seductive power of Gustave Courbet’s forests as well as the dripping grandeur of French Romantic painter Gustave Moreau’s dramatic mystical paintings marked by forceful veils of color.”
Barbara A. MacAdam, The Brooklyn Rail
Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz
Virtual Show
Exhibition Catalogue
"[Katz's best work] reminds me of the first experience, of a first experience in nature, the first experience of seeing... It must be that first 'timeness.' The world starts in this picture."
Fairfield Porter
"Fairfield Porter is a painter of great refinement and subtlety. He has a strong technique and a wonderful sense of place... The realistic world he painted always had a great deal of style."
Alex Katz
"Likeness does not 'stop' the paint [in a Katz painting]. The most ordinary and flattest gray, mixed only from black and white, has the radiance of violet. The green of a real, living plant in the gallery looks less alive than the actually rather abstract green of the foliage in his landscapes.”
Fairfield Porter
"Fairfield made me feel I was okay. He called up and visited... He wrote about me and was very supportive... It gave me confidence."
Alex Katz
Janet Sobel: Between Figure and Ground
Lower Gallery
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
“Abstraction is not the goal here but emerges as a byproduct of the complicated interconnection between figure and ground, line and form. Sobel’s strength is in merging these moments—another kind of all-overness.”
Sandra Zalman
“Where Sobel is at her best is when figuration and abstraction rub together like tectonic plates, retaining a palpable visual tension but never allowing for an earthquake to happen.”
William Davie
“Sobel’s work falls outside the chain of artistic inheritance; it is too original.”
Natilee Harren
Jeannette Montgomery Barron: Some Quiet
Garden Cabin
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
“[The drawings] relate to my other work in terms of simplicity, calm, and meditation, especially the mirrors.”
Jeannette Montgomery Barron
"Rather than reading as austere still lifes, the photographs of these anonymous, everyday objects become 'portraits,' heads on slim necks, sometimes confronting us, sometimes turning away. They seem introspective, self-contained, as if Montgomery Barron had captured her sitters unawares."
Karen Wilkin
"One’s first impression [of Montgomery Barron's drawings] is of a quiet and meditative practice... Their unaffectedness leaves nowhere to hide, and they are poignant in that way. This is their most compelling quality - their existence as an intimate and immediate record of the unique movements of Barron’s hand."
KK Kozik
"[Drawing] turned into a practice that very much calmed me down. It made feel a certain way—peaceful–and then I couldn’t stop drawing."
Jeannette Montgomery Barron
Beverly Pepper / Outdoor Sculpture
Currently on view by appointment only
“Time, that fourth dimension, has always been an essential element in [Beverly] Pepper’s work—a desire to create something outside history, something bigger and more enduring than herself, than all of us.”
Megan O’Grady
Clodia Medea (2014 - 2024)
Curvae in Curvae (2012 - 18)
Curved Presence (2012)
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