Davidson Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Davidson Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Heather Hart “She Cuts Through Worlds”
Davidson Gallery is proud to announce the opening of She Cuts Through Worlds, a solo exhibition by Heather Hart. Hart’s work exists at the junction of art, architecture, performance, and theory. Hart addresses...More »
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Nathan Ng Catlin “What Goes on Behind a Windowpane”
Davidson Gallery presents What Goes on Behind a Windowpane, an exhibition of new work by Nathan Ng Catlin. The work in the exhibition includes painting, ceramic, stained glass, and found objects, each...More »
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Sam Messenger “Grids & Veils”
Davidson Gallery presents Grids & Veils, a solo exhibition of new work by Sam Messenger (British, b.1980). The exhibition consists of two discrete series: large-scale grid drawings on linen that are...More »
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Boo Saville “The Smoke Detector And The Watchtower”
Davidson Gallery presents The Smoke Detector and the Watchtower, an exhibition of new paintings by Boo Saville. The exhibition features 15 new color field and dichromatic figurative works by Saville painted...More »
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Thomas Witte “Centerpiece”
Davidson Gallery presents Centerpiece, a solo exhibition of new work by Thomas Witte. Though perhaps best known for using a dichromatic pallet of pristine white paper and a contrasting color, Witte has...More »
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Purvis Young “Under A Concrete Sky”
Davidson Gallery presents Under a Concrete Sky, an exhibition of work from acclaimed painter Purvis Young. The show title references the Miami neighborhood of Overtown, a predominantly black, low-income...More »
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Sam Messenger “Verso”
Davidson Gallery presents Verso, a solo exhibition of new work by Sam Messenger. In this, Messenger’s seventh one-man show with Davidson, the artist eschews the predominately greyscale pen-and-ink drawings...More »
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Tom Wesselmann “Perfecting the Process”
Davidson Gallery presents Tom Wesselmann: Perfecting the Process, a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculptural works spanning the entirety of the artist’s acclaimed career. Wesselmann was the...More »
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“Impossible Objects” Exhibition
Davidson Gallery presents Impossible Objects, an exhibition featuring the work of Frea Buckler, Jenna Krypell, Gabi Mitterer, Ricardo Paniagua, Richard Roth, and Matthew Shlian. The term “impossible object”...More »
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Thomas Witte “If These Memories Were Mine”
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Angela Heisch “Trapeze”
Davidson Gallery presents Trapeze, a solo exhibition of new work by Angela Heisch. Formally rooted in abstraction, Heisch’s paintings and drawings take on both architectural and biomorphic forms. In her...More »
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Mary Ann Unger “Fluid Line: 1968-83”
Davidson Gallery presents Fluid Line: 1968-83 – our third exhibition of Unger’s work – which will focus on one particular stage of her drawing and sculpture. Unger was most well known for her sculpture,...More »
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Nicky Broekhuysen “The Channeling”
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Pedro S. de Movellán “Portal”
Davidson Gallery presents Portal, an exhibition of new work by Pedro S. de Movellán. This show represents two years of work and includes both indoor and outdoor kinetic sculpture from one of the most innovative...More »
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Alexander Calder and George Rickey Exhibition
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Joe Rudko “Advanced Techniques of Photography”
Davidson Contemporary presents Advanced Techinques of Photography, a solo exhibition of new work by Seattle-based artist Joe Rudko. Originally trained as a photographer, Rudko has not made a new photo...More »
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Darren Lago “Who’s Afraid of the Red, White, and Green”
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Sophie Bouvier Ausländer “Avalanche”
Davidson Contemporary presents Avalanche, an exhibition by Swiss artist Sophie Bouvier Ausländer. In this recent series, Bouvier Ausländer paintings use roadmaps – opened and unfolded – as surfaces which...More »
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Larry Rivers “Public and Private Continued…”
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Nathan Catlin “The Conspirators”
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Henry Moore “Reflections”
Maxwell Davidson Gallery presents Henry Moore: Reflections, a survey exhibition featuring works from 1930 – 1985. Reflections focuses primarily on sculpture - there are over 20 in the exhibition – and...More »
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Thomas Witte “Vantage Point”
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Boo Saville “Chimera”
Davidson Contemporary presents Chimera, a solo exhibition of paintings by Boo Saville. The exhibition marks Saville’s first show with the gallery and first in the United States. The show features a combination...More »
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Mel Rosas “La patria, Foreign Intimacies”
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Pedro S. de Movellán “C0DE”
Maxwell Davidson Gallery presents, C0DE, a solo exhibition of new work by Pedro S. de Movellán. This exhibition features outdoor work on the terraces, indoor works on the tenth floor, and a large-scale...More »
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Victor Vasarely “Analog”
Maxwell Davidson Gallery presents Analog, an exhibition of original paintings and works on paper by Victor Vasarely, many seen here for the first time. Including work from the 1950s through the 1980s,...More »
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“Totally Suite” Exhibition
Davidson Contemporary presents the summer exhibition Totally Suite, a group show featuring serial work from Nathan Catlin, Sam Messenger, Boo Saville, and Thomas Witte. Each artist has made a series of...More »
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Kevin Osmond “Orbit”
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Nicky Broekhuysen “The Mediators”
Davidson Contemporary presents The Mediators, a new solo exhibition of work by Nicky Broekhuysen. The Mediators are a series of large paintings on paper based in part on ancient rock paintings, particularly...More »
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Sam Messenger “13 Cycles”
Davidson Contemporary presents 13 Cycles, by Sam Messenger. This exhibition of new works on paper is an uncommon departure from Messenger’s predominantly black and white palette. The series is titled Nimbus...More »
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Mary Ann Unger “Flesh and Bone”
Maxwell Davidson Gallery presents Flesh and Bone, a one-woman exhibition of work by Mary Ann Unger. This show, the artist’s second with the gallery, focuses on work from 1976 until 1998. She began her...More »
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Sanford Wurmfeld “Grey Series”
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Tim Prentice “New Work”
Maxwell Davidson Gallery presents a solo exhibition for Tim Prentice titled, simply, New Work. This show, Prentice’s 13th with Maxwell Davidson Gallery, incorporates an arrangement of among the most iconic...More »
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“BOGO!” Exhibition
Davidson Contemporary presents a group show titled BOGO!. A term used in retail and wholesale shopping, BOGO stands for “Buy One, Get One”, and is used by retailers to encourage sales, move inventory,...More »
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Carlos Cruz-Diez “Chromatic Transfiguration”
Maxwell Davidson Gallery presents Chromatic Transfiguration, a solo exhibition by Carlos Cruz-Diez. With new work by the artist, this exhibition will include examples of virtually all of Cruz-Diez’s color...More »
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George Rickey “Outdoor/Indoor”
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Thomas Witte “Anonymous Population: New York 1951-1980”
Davidson Contemporary presents the exhibition Anonymous Population: New York 1951-1980 by Thomas Witte. This is Witte’s first solo show at Davidson Contemporary. The bases of the work are 35mm slides,...More »
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Sam Messenger “Fracture”
Davidson Contemporary opens a solo show of new works by Sam Messenger, titled Fracture. Consisting of large paintings created in London in the last year, this exhibition promulgates a forceful and natural...More »
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Pedro S. de Movellán “Contour: New Kinetic Sculpture”
Maxwell Davidson Gallery presents Contour: New Kinetic Sculpture, by Pedro S. de Movellàn. De Movellàn has created indoor and outdoor work for this exhibition. For over 20 years, de Movellàn has been one...More »
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“Seven Decades of Optic Art” Exhibition
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Tim Prentice “Color and Light”
The gallery is please to present Color and Light, an exhibition of new work from acclaimed sculptor, Tim Prentice. For his twelfth solo exhibition at Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Prentice has created work...More »
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Sam Messenger “Early Drawings”
[Image: Sam Messenger “GETHESEMANE’S VEIL” (2009) pen and white ink, inkwash, and poured ink, vinegar, salt water on paper 63 x 59 in.]More »
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Pedro S. De Movellán “Retrospective”
The gallery presents a retrospective exhibition of work by Pedro S. de Movellán. This is de Movellán’s tenth solo exhibition with Maxwell Davidson Gallery, and the first retrospective of his career. For...More »
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Carlos Cruz-Diez “Circumstance & Ambiguity of Color”
[Image: Carlos Cruz-Diez “PHYSICHROMIE 1772” (2012) aluminum and serigraph on Plexiglas 40 x 40 in.]More »
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Mel Rosas "Un Verso Sencillo / A Simple Verse"
This marks the artist’s seventh solo show at Davidson Contemporary featuring new paintings which delve deeper into the symbolism and Post-Surrealist imagery that has made Rosas such a successful artist....More »
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"Works Of Paper" A Group Exhibition
Paper, one of the most accessible and common of art medium, has been used by artists for millennia as a surface for drawing and sketching. This exhibition features eight artists who work with paper, but...More »
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Tom Wesselmann "Objects of Desire"
This is the eighth solo show for Wesselmann at the gallery, and is in collaboration with the Estate of the artist. "Objects of Desire" features examples of Wesselmannʼs three-dimensional work in a variety...More »
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Darren Lago "Sugar"
This is Lago’s third solo show with the gallery and his first in five years. "Sugar" includes work in an array of media, though consists mostly of sculpture– over two dozen– ranging in size from five inches...More »
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Tim Prentice "Drawing on the Air"
Prentice’s ultralight, intricately linked kinetic sculptures are arranged in an orderly pattern of systems, allowing them to move fluidly. In his 11th solo exhibition at the gallery, we draw attention...More »
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Megan Olson "Legible Fiction"
Davidson Contemporary presents a new exhibition by Megan Olson entitled Legible Fiction. This is Olson’s sixth solo exhibition with Davidson Contemporary as she continues her explorations into abstraction...More »
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Sarah Hardesty "Imminent"
The exhibition will feature new work in a variety of media, including paintings, works on paper, and sculptural installations. Sarah Hardesty’s sculptures and installations use found and reclaimed wood,...More »
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Sam Messenger "Six Veils"
For his second solo exhibition at Davidson Contemporary, Sam Messenger has created all-new "Veil" drawings. Each five-foot square "Veil" is washed with black ink and allowed to dry outside on the snow...More »
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Christopher Brown "Racing"
An exhibition featuring new work by Christopher Brown, "Racing" is a series of paintings that portray multi-figured images of bicycle, running, and horse races, and explore the relationships between scale,...More »
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"Insider Art" Exhibition
"Insider Art" is a group exhibition comprised of works by six different artists. In selecting the works for this exhibition, curator Jess Frost sought out artists who use abstraction with rough analogues...More »
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"Geometry: Selected Works from the Estate of Mary Ann Unger" Exhibition
Best known for her sculpture, Unger also produced an impressive catalogue of drawings, sketches, and watercolors, which have, for the most part, never left her studio. It is these extraordinary and largely...More »
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William T. Wiley "Abstractions with Leaky Wicks"
This is Wiley’s first exhibition with the gallery, and features new paintings and watercolors. Following his highly acclaimed retrospective "What’s It All Mean" at The Smithsonian in 2009, and the Berkeley...More »
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Pedro S. De Movellán "New Kinetic Sculpture"
Solo exhibition featuring new kinetic sculptures is Pedro S De Movellán’s ninth solo show at Maxwell Davidson Gallery. One of the most prominent kinetic sculptors working today, De Movellan has become...More »
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George Rickey "Indoor/Outdoor"
This will be the gallery's 16th show for George Rickey over the last 31 years, and will be comprised of works from the grand arc of Rickey's career, including some of Rickey's most recognizable imagery,...More »
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George Segal "Women"
This is George Segal’s first-ever exhibition at Maxwell Davidson Gallery. The gallery is working directly with Carroll Janis and the George and Helen Segal Foundation to present and curate this show. This...More »
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Kiel Johnson "Listen Here, Busker!"
Davidson Contemporary presents Kiel Johnson’s one-man show, Listen Here, Busker! This is Johnson’s first show with Davidson Contemporary, and his second in New York. Listen Here, Busker! features Johnson’s...More »
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"American Demonic" Exhibition
Curated by Eve Biddle. The emblems of American society reflect a new animism that we worship both knowingly and unawares: Money, Multi-Culturalism, TV, Security, Machismo, Violence, Technology, Progress...More »
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Kevin Osmond "Viewfinder"
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Tim Prentice "New Kinetic Sculptures"
Tim Prentice is an American-born kinetic sculptor, who works in a variety of lightweight materials including aluminum, stainless steel, feathers, and Lexan. Trained as an architect, Prentice turned to...More »
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David Ryan "New Work"
[Image: David Ryan "JARVIS" (2009) Acrylic and Flashe paint on MDF 22 x 24.25 x 2.25 in.]More »
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"Sculpture: Post War to Present" Exhibition
[Image: Olafur Eliasson "Two Hot Air Columns" (2005) stainless steel and electric bulbs 66.93 x 74.8 in.]More »
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Paul Dacey "Hell & High Water"
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Megan Olson "Spray Paintings: New Work"
Megan Olson’s fifth solo exhibition draws on the paradox of her artistic education. She grew up on surrealism and abstract expressionism and, inspired by Albrecht Durer, worked as an illustrator of photorealistic...More »
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Mel Rosas "La Calle Desconocida: New Paintings"
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Pedro De Movellan "Airfoil: Random Vectors"
Recent works by the kinetic sculptor. [Image: Pedro De Movellan "TOUCAN" (2005) Quilted maple, brushed aluminum, stainless steel and rare earth magnets 10 x 21 in. at maximum swing]More »
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Sam Messenger "Straightedge"
[Sam Messenger "II/III" (2006) ink wash on paper 23 x 15 in. Courtesy of the Artist]More »
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"Hot & Cold" Exhibition
[Image: Tim Prentice "Red Zinger" (2007) Stainless steel, aluminum and plastic, 24 x 18 in. Courtesy of Maxwell Davidson Gallery.]More »
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George Rickey "Selected Works from the Estate"
What is intriguing about George Rickey's career is that although his dedicated sculpture making did not start until the artist was already in his forties, he is thought of as one of the great sculptors...More »