Forum Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Forum Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Michael C. Thorpe “14 Years Old”
Forum Gallery presents 14 Years Old, the inaugural New York solo exhibition for Michael C. Thorpe. At just 28 years of age, Thorpe is an exciting young artist who has burst on to the art scene telling...More »
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“Stillness of Life Bauer” Exhibition
Forum Gallery presents the exhibition, Stillness of Life, comprising of recent works by four artists whose disparate subjects and media contrast with their related devotion to probing contemplation of...More »
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William Beckman “Five Decades of Self-Portraits”
Forum Gallery will celebrate William Beckman’s 50 years of self-portraiture with an exhibition of seventeen paintings and drawings made between 1976 and 2021. The exhibition, William Beckman: Five Decades...More »
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“Then and Now: American Social Realism” Exhibition
Forum Gallery presents a group exhibition of American social realism featuring paintings, drawings, and sculpture dating from the first half of the Twentieth Century to today. Artists working in the years...More »
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“Drawing Inspiration” Exhibition
Forum Gallery presents Drawing Inspiration, an exhibition of works on paper by twenty-seven artists who approach drawing from uniquely different perspectives. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), whose artistic...More »
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Claudio Bravo Exhibition
Forum Gallery presents its first exhibition of works by Claudio Bravo (1936 – 2011), whose estate the Gallery now represents. The exhibition of paintings, pastels and drawings includes works exhibited...More »
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Rance Jones “The Lingering Revolution”
Forum Gallery presents the first New York exhibition for American watercolorist Rance Jones (b. 1965). Jones first visited Cuba in 2018, and was immediately inspired to begin his paintings of the current...More »
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“Natural History” Exhibition
Forum Gallery presents Natural History, an exhibition of paintings by Robert Bauer, Linden Frederick, Alan Magee, Alyssa Monks, Guillermo Muñoz Vera, Brian Rutenberg and Stephanie Wilde. United by their...More »
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Tula Telfair “Reverie”
Forum Gallery presents Reverie, an exhibition of landscape paintings by American artist Tula Telfair. In this exhibition, her sixth at Forum, Tula Telfair delves deeply into the depths of memory, recalling...More »
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“Landmarks of 20th Century American Art” Exhibition
Forum Gallery (est. 1961) will present the exhibition, Landmarks of 20th Century American Art. The exhibition will present thirty singularly important works of art dating from 1917 to 1991 and can be described...More »
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Brian Rutenberg “Saltwater”
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Linden Frederick “Night Life”
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“Wives, Daughters, and Lovers” Exhibition
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Guillermo Muñoz Vera “The Light of the Alhambra”
In “The Light of the Alhambra,” Munoz Vera demonstrates the relationships between past and present, new world and old world and art and life that reveal the mystery and beauty of The Alhambra, which has...More »
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William Beckman “Recent Paintings and Drawings”
An exhibition of 16 new works by William Beckman. The 12 oil paintings and 4 pastel landscapes included, all completed since 2008, are a testament to Beckman’s singular power and innovation in the fifth...More »
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Gregory Gillespie “Supernatural Observation”
An exhibition of paintings by Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000). In his New York Times obituary, Roberta Smith called Gillespie “an artist whose probing, urgent, often bizarre paintings occupied a singular...More »
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Steven Assael “New Drawings”
An exhibit of new drawings by New York City artist, Steven Assael. Born in 1957, Assael is now nationally recognized as one of the leading figurative artists of this generation. His paintings and drawings...More »
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Davis Cone “Recent Works”
The gallery will present an exhibition of recent works by the eminent photorealist painter, Davis Cone. The exhibition includes all of the work the Artist has completed since his last New York exhibition...More »
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“W.O.P.” Exhibition
[Image: Amélie Chabannes “Bride of the Wind #2” (2010) acrylic, ink and tracing paper on wood panel 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.]More »
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David Mach Exhibition
Mach has used everyday, recognizable, mass-produced objects in multiples, notably newspapers, magazines, car tires, matches and coat hangers throughout his career. He brings diverse items together in large-scale...More »
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"Uncommon Ground: Alternative Realities" Exhibition
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"Five Decades: Art and Artists of Forum Gallery, 1962 – 2012" Exhibition
[Image: César Galicia "Telephone" (2012) mixed media on board 36.5 x 24.25 in.]More »
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"Modern Sculpture" Exhibition
An exhibition of sculpture by Alexander Archipenko, Chaim Gross, Gaston Lachaise, Jacques Lipchitz, Elie Nadelman and John Storrs, curated by Kenneth Wayne, Ph.D., The Figure in Modern Sculpture, will...More »
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Odd Nerdrum Exhibition
In his new body of work made in the last four years, Nerdrum continues his exploration of the universal human condition revealing danger, misery, struggle, fear, helplessness, and yet, at times, optimism,...More »
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Mark Podwal "Sharing The Journey: The Haggadah"
"Sharing The Journey" features new paintings and drawings by Mark Podwal-- twenty-six colorful paintings that relate the story of Passover. Working in the pictorial language of symbol and metaphor, Podwal’s...More »
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Tula Telfair "Out of Sight: Imaginary Landscapes"
An exhibition of twelve panoptic paintings that transport the viewer to emotive land formations derived entirely from the artist’s mind. Representing both a place and moment in time not reachable by mankind,...More »
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"Peace on Earth: Art Against War" Exhibition
[Image: Ben Shahn "The Phoenix" (c. 1952) gouache and ink on board 16 x 16 in.]More »
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"Vantage Point 2011" Exhibition
[Image: Paul Fenniak "Out of Reach" (2011) oil on canvas 48 x 36 in.]More »
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Megan Rye "I Will Follow You Into the Dark"
Based primarily on an archive of over 2,000 photographs taken by her brother while stationed in Iraq as a U.S. Marine, Rye’s 17 paintings from 2006 to 2011 offer testimony to memory and history, mystery...More »
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Guillermo Muñoz Vera "Terra Australis Incognita"
With extraordinary imagination, insightful subtlety, and remarkable precision, "The Undiscovered World" features 20 new paintings that depict the lives and exploits of early European explorers at the advent...More »
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Robert Cottingham "Empire"
A famous movie theater in Montgomery, Alabama, the site where Rosa Parks started the Civil Rights Movement, is the subject of an exhibition of new work by Robert Cottingham. "Empire" will focus on nine...More »
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Brian Rutenberg "Low Dense"
Saturated with layer upon layer of thick multicolored paint, these new 14 exuberant abstract paintings pulsate as hyper-charged geometric shapes surge across the canvas. In his new body of work, Rutenberg...More »
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Linden Frederick "Night Neighbors"
Linden Frederick: Night Neighbors will present 12 paintings depicting luminous rural American scenes at night. Linden Frederick’s paintings in Night Neighbors often seem to set the stage for mysterious...More »
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Alan Magee "In Sight"
Recent work by Alan Magee, known as one of the most accomplished and imaginative figurative painters working today, will be on view at the gallery’s first exhibition in its new location in the historic...More »
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"Contemporary Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture: A Summer Selection" Exhibition
[Image: Robert Bauer "Adam" (2010) oil on wood 8 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.]More »
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"Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture: A Summer Selection" Exhibition
[Image: Charles Burchfield "Fantastic Landscape" (1917) mixed media on paper 21 x 17 in.]More »
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Sean Henry Exhibition
Inspired by friends and the people he encounters on the streets of London, Henry’s sculptures delve into the mysteries of daily life. Working from life, photographs and his own drawings, Henry creates...More »
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Alan Feltus Exhibition
The exhibition presents seventeen new paintings by award winning American artist Alan Feltus. The works in the current exhibition continue the artist’s neoclassical exploration of the figure, saturated...More »
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Susan Hauptman Exhibition
Forum Gallery presents an exhibition of fifteen bold new drawings by Susan Hauptman. Hauptman’s highly refined drawings are difficult to categorize. Realistic and idealized, austere and playful, exposed...More »
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Gregory Gillespie Exhibition
Forum Gallery marks its fiftieth anniversary year by presenting an exhibition of paintings by the artist Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000), whom Forum represented from his first New York exhibition in 1966...More »
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Bernardo Siciliano Exhibition
In the four years since his last exhibition at Forum Gallery, Bernardo Siciliano has continued his intensive concentration on luminous urban landscapes and bold and compelling figurative painting. In the...More »
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Peter Krausz "(No) Man's Land"
Montréal artist Peter Krausz exhibits "(No) Man’s Land," fifteen vibrant and visceral paintings executed in secco. Unlike the more familiar fresco, in which pigments are applied to a wet surface, Krausz...More »
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Cybèle Young Exhibition
Toronto artist Cybèle Young produces unique, colorful, dimensional "paintings" entirely created from handmade Japanese paper and her own copperplate etchings. Inspired by the fleeting day-to-day occurrences...More »
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Holly Lane Exhibition
Living in Northern California, Holly Lane prefers to work in solitude to germinate the ideas for her iconographic altarpieces. A self-taught wood carver, Lane uses elaborate carving to bring each work...More »
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"The Platonic Ideal" Exhibition
The Platonic Ideal, an exhibition featuring the work of twenty-eight painters and sculptors exploring the essence of subject and form in the human figure, the imaginary landscape, and perceived objects....More »
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"New Acquisitions" Exhibition
"New Acquisitions" will showcase thirty works new to the gallery in the last year, and will include large and small-scale paintings, dramatic sculpture and important drawings by Forum Gallery roster artists...More »
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Charles Matton "Selected Works"
A separate exhibition of eleven of renowned Paris-based artist Charles Matton's box constructions, each an exquisitely detailed miniature recreation of a real or imagined location. Matton has said of his...More »
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Michael Leonard "New Paintings & Drawings"
Square and near square compositions are particularly appealing to Michael Leonard. His aversion to standing rectangles comes from his early years illustrating book jackets. His models are caught in transitory...More »
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Steven Assael "Paintings & Drawings"
Steven Assael will exhibit his latest paintings and drawings in his seventh exhibition since joining the Gallery in 1998, focuses on public and private aspects of urban life and explores issues of intimacy,...More »
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Paul Fenniak Exhibition
New, psychologically compelling paintings by Paul Fenniak, bridge realism and symbolism, posing inevitable and inexorable questions about the events portrayed. Fenniak describes his current body of work...More »
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Alex Melamid "Holy Hip-Hop!"
[Image: Alex Melamid "Common" (2005) oil on canvas 82 x 49 in.]More »
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Rieko Fujinami Exhibition
[Image: Rieko Fujinami "A Memory in the Ash" (2008) dry pigment & acrylic paint on mylar 40 x 36 in.]More »
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Linden Frederick "American Studies"
Linden Frederick will exhibit "American Studies," a series comprising nearly fifty oil paintings. Frederick’s subjects are drawn from his experience as he traveled the United States by bicycle, train and...More »
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"Made in America" Exhibition
The current exhibition at Forum Gallery, New York focuses on works ‘made in America’ by seventeen Artists, including Willem de Kooning, George Grosz, and Raphael Soyer, all of whom immigrated to the United...More »
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David Levine "American Presidents & Selected Paintings, 1966-2008"
[Image: David Levine "Senator Barack Obama" (2006) & "Senator John McCain" (2002) ink on paper 13.75 x 11 in. (each image)]More »
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Mark Podwal "Jewish Magic"
Superstitions, ritual, mythology, angels and magic have long had a place in religious traditions and writings. In Judaism, these elements have been used to emphasize the Powers of Good; thus, "Jewish Magic."...More »
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"New Acquisitions" Exhibition
"New Acquisitions," showcases thirty works new to the gallery in the last year, and will include large and small-scale paintings, dramatic sculpture and important drawings by Forum Gallery roster artists...More »
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Charles Matton "Selected Works"
Charles Matton's box constructions each an exquisitely detailed miniature recreation of a real or imagined location. Matton has said of his works: "I create two kinds of boxes: those whose purpose is to...More »
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Andrea J. Smith Exhibition
Forum Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by the award-winning, internationally exhibited artist Andrea J. Smith. In her work, classical and contemporary painting techniques are combined to...More »
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Lisa Bartolozzi "Empathy"
"Empathy," a one-person exhibition of figurative paintings by award-winning artist Lisa Bartolozzi represents the culmination of more than ten years of exquisitely detailed work. Bartolozzi utilizes the...More »
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Xenia Hausner Exhibition
Xenia Hausner’s newest work combines her mastery as a humanist painter with her gifts in photography and collage to create tableaux of deep emotion. These large-scale paintings engage the viewer with direct...More »
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Robert Bauer "Portraits"
Forum Gallery presents Robert Bauer: Portraits, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings. Bauer’s portraits are known for their sensitivity and the introspective nature of his subjects. There is...More »