Betty Cuningham Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Betty Cuningham Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Jake Berthot “What Happened To Abstraction?”
“In the 1970s there was a dialogue and an understanding of what people were doing. And there are still people who are really pissed off at me for changing course and painting a tree!” * - Jake...More »
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Graham Nickson “In Black and White”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents In Black and White, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Graham Nickson. This will be the artist’s fourth exhibition with the Gallery. The current exhibition...More »
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Mia Westerlund Roosen “Aftermath”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Aftermath, an exhibition of new sculptures by Mia Westerlund Roosen. Since 2016, I have been addicted to the news, horrified by the unbelievable march towards the...More »
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Rackstraw Downes “Drawings”
“Fairfield Porter said that the artist who searches for subject matter is like someone who cannot get out of bed in the morning without understanding the meaning of life.” ~so quoted by Rackstraw...More »
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Philip Pearlstein “I Love Mud”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents I Love Mud, an exhibition of Philip Pearlstein’s recent watercolors. Philip Pearlstein, whose name is synonymous with figure painting, was forced to turn to other subjects...More »
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Alison Wilding “Alabaster and Other Stories”
“I think a lot of work these days has this huge backstory where you need to read the text and then look at the work and then put the two together. And I don’t think you need to do that with what I do....More »
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Andrew Forge “The Limits of Sight”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an abbreviated version of the exhibition Andrew Forge, The Limits of Sight which was curated by Karen Wilkin and originated at Fairfield University Art Museum in the Fall...More »
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Greg Drasler “Crowded Places/Open Spaces”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Crowded Places/Open Spaces an exhibition of paintings by Greg Drasler. This will be the artist’s fifth exhibition with the Gallery, located at 15 Rivington Street, New...More »
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Clytie Alexander “Edge”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Edge, an exhibition of the work of Clytie Alexander. This is Alexander’s third show with the gallery, located at 15 Rivington Street. An online viewing room will accompany...More »
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“Can You Hear My Silent Scream?” Exhibition
After several months of lockdown and limited ways to enjoy art in person, Betty Cuningham Gallery is thrilled to open an in-house group exhibition titled Can You Hear My Silent Scream? on Thursday September...More »
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Philip Pearlstein “Nudes and Other Landscapes”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Nudes and Other Landscapes which includes a selection of paintings, watercolors and prints created between 1954 and 2020. Philip Pearlstein is synonomous with figure...More »
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Jake Berthot “JAKE!”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents JAKE!, an exhibition of Jake Berthot’s paintings and drawings completed during the last 15 years of his life. This will be the third exhibition at the Gallery since the...More »
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Elizabeth Enders “Elsewhere”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Elsewhere, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Elizabeth Enders. In Elsewhere, Enders paints her way through imaginary travels in time as well as...More »
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Rudolf de Crignis “Light”
Rudolf de Crignis was a maker of tools….De Crignis’s tools—his paintings and drawings—function by offering a visual experience of subtle difference and nearly imperceptible change. The deeper we look into...More »
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Graham Nickson “Eye Level”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Eye Level, an exhibition of portraits by Graham Nickson. This will be the artist’s third exhibition with the Gallery, but will be his first exhibition of ‘faces’ - a part...More »
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“Summer!” Exhibition
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Fairfield Porter “Amherst and Other Places”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents paintings and works on paper by Fairfield Porter [1907-1975]. The exhibition will feature eight small oil studies which have never been exhibited. They were completed in...More »
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William Bailey Exhibition
For me a narrative would have to be completely assimilated into the formal language of painting before I could use it in a way that would allow me the artistic freedom, honesty, and authority I need. Perhaps...More »
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Bill Traylor “[1854-1949]”
BILL TRAYLOR, born a slave in 1854, is today revered as a major American artist and is currently the subject of an extensive solo exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Between Worlds: The...More »
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Judy Glantzman “1979 - Today”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents a survey of Judy Glantzman’s work from 1979 to the present. It will be Glantzman’s fifth solo exhibition with the Gallery. A single dominant strain which has run through...More »
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Stanley Lewis Exhibition
I think they will be my best paintings if I can finish them. That is the problem. To do my BEST means I go very slowly and try to get everything as good as I can before I move on – I always have to re-do...More »
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Rackstraw Downes Exhibition
There is one thing I think realism is definitely not, though it is often confused with it, and that is a technique. Technique is a skill you can learn so you don’t have to respond to what you are looking...More »
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Elizabeth Enders “Waterlines”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Waterlines, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Elizabeth Enders. While the early work of Enders was primarily a personal, visual diary, the current...More »
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Philip Pearlstein “Today”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Philip Pearlstein: Today, which features recent paintings. In 1971, Pearlstein clearly stated his position on realsim in an article, “Why I Paint the Way I Do”, which...More »
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John Lees “New Paintings & Drawings”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by John Lees. This will be the artist’s fifth solo show at the Gallery, located at 15 Rivington Street. The exhibition is...More »
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Charles Garabedian “Harlow’s Back!”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Harlow’s Back!, an exhibition featuring paintings by Charles Garabedian that span more than 5 decades. This will be the gallery’s first exhibition since Garabedian’s passing...More »
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Jake Berthot “Marks, Mountains and Skulls”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Marks, Mountains and Skulls, an exhibition of works on paper and paintings by Jake Berthot. This will be the second exhibition at the Gallery since the artist’s passing...More »
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Graham Nickson Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Graham Nickson. Nickson, who has shown in New York since the mid 1970s, is particularly identified by his highly saturated...More »
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Christopher Wilmarth Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery will open an exhibition of the sculpture and drawings of Christopher Wilmarth. Christopher Wilmarth produced approximately 150 sculptures in his short lifetime. The current...More »
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Philip Pearlstein “Facing You”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Philip Pearlstein: Facing You, an exhibition of portraits by Pearlstein dating from 1969 to 2017. The exhibition includes approximately 30 portraits of friends, family...More »
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Clytie Alexander “Ink and Paper”
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of the work of Clytie Alexander, in our next-door space, SIDECAR. Ink and Paper includes approximately 40 of Alexander’s works on paper each measuring...More »
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Mia Westerlund Roosen Exhibition
My process has always been about seeing and feeling with the body, not so much about analysis. I think of my pieces as bodies, the depiction of living organisms with very little narrative. The reductive...More »
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Robert Feintuch “3 Paintings, 3 Drawings”
In cartoons from my childhood, when a character got punched, their legs went up over their heads and they ended up in the clouds. There was a sort of endless cycle of characters flattening each other,...More »
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Chuck Webster “Look Around”
Paint and form move through a succession of thoughts and allusions. Clues come and go as the work moves along. I walk into the picture, look around, think, and perhaps start to understand. Then at some...More »
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Elizabeth Enders Exhibition
Lyrical and meditative, the work of Elizabeth Enders heightens our curiosity to learn more about the world around us, to penetrate deeper into the often-concealed magic of simple everyday experiences. ~...More »
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Jake Berthot Exhibition
Celebrating the Phillips Collection exhibition Jake Berthot: From the Collection and Promised Gifts, Betty Cuningham Gallery presents a show of Jake Berthot’s work. The exhibition will include approximately...More »
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Rudolf de Crignis Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents 14 Paintings, an exhibition of work by the late Rudolf de Crignis. The exhibition is composed of 6 works on canvas and 8 works on paper, all considered ‘paintings’...More »
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Stanley Lewis “The Way Things Are”
The greatness of jazz is making so much perfection and beauty from a relatively simple song. With landscapes, the perfection is there already. Then you try to come up with a recognizable tune. My brief...More »
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Philip Pearlstein Exhibition
During my freshman year at Carnegie, most of the male student body took the introduction to military training (ROTC) instead of gym, and at the end of the school year, in June 1943, we all met at Fort...More »
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Beverly McIver “Objects of Affection”
She reminded me of myself as a child. I found her cute and innocent. I fell in love with her instantly and was moved to paint her. ~Beverly McIver Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Objects of Affection...More »
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Greg Drasler “Road Trip”
From the joining of shadowy constructed atmospheres of big sky vistas to the crazy quilt inspired grounding of vernacular architecture, cloud computing mixes it up with carousing of local color. I have...More »
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Charles Garabedian Exhibition
In celebration of the career of Charles Garabedian, Betty Cuningham Gallery presents to hang a selection of the late artist’s work in SIDECAR, the Gallery’s new space at 11 Rivington Street. Born...More »
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William Bailey Exhibition
I always drew; it was a way of capturing daydreams or of remembering things that I had seen. I didn’t draw directly form objects or people but always out of my head. ~ William Bailey Betty Cuningham...More »
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Jake Berthot “In Color on Saturday”
Celebrating the career of Jake Berthot, Betty Cuningham Gallery presents Jake Berthot: In Color. The exhibition will include approximately 20 works dating from 1969 to 2014. As this is the first exhibition...More »
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“Pearlstein Today & Pearlstein | Warhol | Cantor: from Carnegie Tech to New York” Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Philip Pearlstein coupled with an exhibition of his Carnegie Tech years with Andy Warhol and Dorothy Cantor. The earlier works of the...More »
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John Lees Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by John Lees. This will be the artist’s fourth solo show at the Gallery. The exhibition is comprised of 16 paintings and...More »
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Judy Glantzman “Dressing for the Carnival”
Betty Cuningham Gallery opens its 2015-2016 season with the work of New York based artist, Judy Glantzman. The solo exhibition, titled after the Winslow Homer painting, Dressing for the Carnival, will...More »
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Andrew Forge Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of the work of Andrew Forge. The exhibit will include approximately 10 paintings and 10 works on paper dating from 1980 to the time of his death in 2002....More »
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Graham Nickson “Spectrum”
“People think that painting a sunrise is like taking a photograph: you’ve captured the whole thing in one second. But you aren’t doing that at all. You are actually painting, a sequence of time, and...More »
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Glenn Goldberg “All Day”
Betty Cuningham Gallery present “all day,” an installation of eleven new paintings by the New York based artist, Glenn Goldberg. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Jason McCoy Gallery,...More »
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Charles Garabedian “Mythical Realities”
Betty Cuningham Gallery opens the exhibition, Charles Garabedian, Mythical Realities, featuring recent paintings by the artist. This will be the artist’s fourth exhibition with the gallery, now in its...More »
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“It’s Magic!” Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery opens, It’s Magic! a group exhibition of works. The exhibition takes its title from Christopher Wilmarth: “If it’s not magic, it’s merchandise!” and raises the question of what...More »
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Bill Traylor Exhibition
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Stanley Lewis Exhibition
“You have to learn what abstraction is in order to understand what painting is.” ~ Stanley Lewis Lewis draws and paints on-site what he sees, his own backyard, views of Lake Chautauqua where he teaches...More »
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Philip Pearlstein Exhibition
Pearlstein, one of the leading artists in figurative painting alive today, chose to follow a path of figuration in the early 1960’s holding on to his Minimal premise that his work be about the painting...More »
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Rackstraw Downes Exhibition
Since the early 1970’s Downes has committed himself to painting from observation, on site from start to finish. As a consequence Downes moves with the seasons: April through October in New York and November...More »
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William Bailey Exhibition
While the current exhibition concentrates on William Bailey’s recent work, both figure and still-life paintings, also included is a selection of earlier paintings including Italian Profile from 1963, Girl...More »
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Gordon Moore Exhibition
This will be the fourth solo exhibition for the artist at the Gallery. The current, and fourth solo exhibition at the Gallery includes seven large scale paintings (78 x 54 inches) and twelve smaller paintings...More »
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Jake Berthot Exhibition
This will be the artist’s fifth exhibition at the Gallery. Since the late 1960’s Jake Berthot has been known for his distinctive brushwork (an admirer of Milton Resnick), his characteristic softly-drawn...More »
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Chuck Webster “Blessing”
Webster can best be characterized as a visionary painter. His visual vocabulary is highly personal. Drawn from his imagination and from the world, the shapes in his paintings are abstract but oddly recognizable....More »
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Beverly McIver Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Beverly McIver. This will be McIver’s second exhibition at the gallery. As a child I had dreamed of becoming a clown to escape my black...More »
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John Lees Exhibition
Lees characteristically spends years working and reworking his paintings and drawings. The build up and sanding down of paint, tears, patches and even written diary logs of dates are among the physical...More »
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Judy Glantzman Exhibition
This most recent body of work comes after seeing Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, which she visited for the first time three years ago. As a result, Glantzman’s work began to shift away from her typical introspective...More »
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Philip Pearlstein Exhibition
This most recent body of work continues Pearlstein’s distinct approach to realism. Since 1960 he has studied and painted the oddly ever-changing shape of the nude model, focusing on the technical characteristics...More »
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"Paint" Exhibition
In this exhibition the single common element is PAINT and from that point forward each artist delivers his or her own distinct vocabulary. Charles Garabedian and William Bailey give us their personal,...More »
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Rackstraw Downes Exhibition
Downes paints from observation, creating his paintings on site, from start to finish. As a consequence Downes moves with the seasons: April through October in New York and November through April in Texas....More »
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Nancy Davidson "Dustup"
Davidson, a sculptor and video artist, is known for her unique media - larger than life inflatable sculptures - and for her interest in American icons and gender issues. In 2005 with the support of a Creative...More »
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Jake Berthot "Artist Model, Angels Putti, Poetry Visual Prose, works on paper"
The exhibition will include 32 works on paper and according to Berthot these drawings are not preparatory for painting, as is true of his recent, well known landscape drawings. They stand alone as his...More »
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Mia Westerlund Roosen "Sculptures 1976-2012"
Born in New York with Cuban heritage, Westerlund Roosen considered two careers, one as a dancer the other as an artist. She cites her interest in dance as the reason her sculpture often refers to the...More »
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William Bailey "New Paintings"
In the current exhibition, and new to Bailey, are two open courtyard paintings and three figure-in-landscape paintings, alongside five classic still life paintings for which he is best known. As is the...More »
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Charles Garabedian "Mythologies"
Drawn from his appreciation for the Classics, Garabedian’s most recent work focuses on characters and settings from Greek mythology. The largest work in the show, The Wine Dark Sea, which depicts a roughly...More »
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Gordon Moore "Paintings & Photo-Emulsion Drawings"
The current group of large scale paintings further develops the abstracted format and reduced palette of the works exhibited in Moore’s previous shows. Notably, these new paintings reflect the artist’s...More »
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David Bates "Object→Image→Abstraction"
While much of Bates’ previous work has focused on widespread themes, such as the Gulf Coast or the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, his recent work focuses on objects and people directly involved...More »
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Greg Drasler "On the Lam"
Drasler, in these highly polished uncanny paintings, constructs the elsewhere and disruptions of travel as if reinventing the wheel. With auto interiors, patterns and suspended objects, the manifold directions...More »
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Christopher Wilmarth Exhibition
The exhibition will include the etchings from Breath, the title Wilmarth gave to a group of seven blown glass works that he did in response to poems by Stéphane Mallarmé. Wilmarth was introduced to these...More »
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Beverly McIver "Recent Painintgs"
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John Lees "Recent Paintings"
The exhibition will feature recently completed work, although many of the paintings were started decades ago. Lees characteristically spends years working and reworking his paintings and drawings. The...More »
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"Thaw" Exhibition
The title of the show, Thaw, is simply a departure point as we enter spring after a cold and snowy winter. It is, however, taken from a 1972 painting featured in the show titled A Thaw, by Rackstraw Downes....More »
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Jake Berthot "Recent Paintings"
Included in the exhibition will be approximately 10 paintings, ranging in size from 12 x 12 inches to 39 x 48 inches. Moving away from the darker palette seen in his last show, Berthot continues to paint...More »
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Philip Pearlstein Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Philip Pearlstein. The exhibition will include approximately ten paintings from the past two years. This will be the artist’s fourth...More »
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Joan Snyder Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Joan Snyder. The exhibition, A Year in the Painting Life is comprised of approximately 15 paintings. This will be the artist’s third...More »
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Rackstraw Downes "A Selection of Drawings, 1980–2010 "
This survey of drawings by Downes will include approximately twenty works on paper. Downes moves with the seasons, thus the drawings included in the exhibition cover a vast array of geographic locations:...More »
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Norbert Prangenberg Exhibition
This Norbert Prangenberg’s first exhibition at the gallery and is presented in collaboration with Bernd Schellhorn of Berlin, Germany. Included in the exhibition will be a selection of approximately...More »
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William Bailey Exhibition
This exhibition of new work by William Bailey, including recent still-life and figure paintings as well as a selection of works on paper. This will be the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery. ...More »
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Al Held and Philip Pearlstein "PEARLSTEIN/HELD: Five Decades"
The two person show: PEARLSTEIN/HELD Five Decades compares the work of painters Philip Pearlstein and Al Held, both of whom have parallel careers spanning the last fifty years. Both artists were born...More »
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Abby Leigh "The Sleeper’s Eye*"
On view in this exhibition are twelve paintings and sixteen works on paper. The paintings, approximately 50 x 50 inches, have emerging central forms. Their surface colors reverberate and the equilibrium...More »
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"Greg Drasler" Exhibition
[Image: Greg Drasler "Mixed Marriage" (2009) oil on line, 70 x 60 in.]More »
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Judy Glantzman "The White Paintings, 1999 - 2001"
On exhibition will be five large “white paintings”, each measuring 90 x 80 inches, and featuring a single central female figure. In addition the show will include two large pencil drawings, measuring...More »
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John Lees and Gordon Moore Exhibition
Included in the exhibit are several drawings by John Lees, most begun years ago and recently completed. He works and then amends his drawings, often over the course of many years, keeping a record of...More »
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Clytie Alexander "Diaphans"
The exhibition will be a comprehensive view of Alexander’s recent work, including approximately sixteen Diaphans and five drawings. Alexander’s Diaphans are painted, rectangular, perforated aluminum sheets...More »
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Andrew Forge/Fairfield Porter Exhibition
The two person show of works on paper by Andrew Forge and Fairfield Porter will feature a broad selection of works by each artist, including approximately 16 watercolors by Forge and 12 of Porter’s ink...More »
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Mia Westerlund Roosen Exhibition
Born in New York with Cuban heritage, Westerlund Roosen considered two careers, one as a dancer the other as an artist. She cites her interest in dance to be the reason her sculpture often refers to the...More »
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Judy Glantzman Exhibition
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Philip Pearlstein "Then and Now"
The exhibition will include approximately 12 paintings by Philip Pearlstein, half from the 1960’s and the other half from the 1990’s up to the present. By presenting paintings from the late 1960’s alongside...More »
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Greg Drasler Exhibition
In his most recent body of work, Drasler continues his practice of painting interior places but has progressed to the interior of a car, a particularly recognizable object. In this case, he chooses a...More »
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Jake Berthot Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Jake Berthot. This is the second solo exhibition for Jake Berthot at the Betty Cuningham Gallery. Composed of approximately...More »
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John Lees Exhibition
Lees works and reworks his drawings and paintings over many years, building up the surfaces and breaking them down, developing what he calls a “sense of presence”. He keeps a dated log on each piece (on...More »