Sperone Westwater - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Sperone Westwater. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Alexis Rockman “Melancolia”
Sperone Westwater presents new glacier paintings by Warren, Connecticut-based artist Alexis Rockman, his fifth solo at the gallery. Presented amidst the critical ecological moment of global warming and...More »
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Guillermo Kuitca “Graphite Paintings from The Tablada Suite (1992) and Poema Pedagógico (1996)’
Sperone Westwater presents Guillermo Kuitca’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery, focusing on historical graphite paintings from The Tablada Suite (1992) and Poema Pedagógico (1996) series. A richly...More »
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Peter Sacks “Above Our Lands”
Sperone Westwater presents Peter Sacks: Above Our Lands, the artist’s second exhibition at the gallery. New paintings, as well as works on wood and on paper, continue and extend the artist’s distinctive...More »
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William Wegman “Writing By Artist”
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2022-05-05 - 2022-06-18
Sperone Westwater presents William Wegman: Writing by Artist, a show of texts, drawings, paintings, early photographs, and videos by the artist dating from the early 1970s to the present, many shown here...More »
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Joana Choumali “It Still Feels Like The Right Time”
Sperone Westwater presents Joana Choumali’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, IT STILL FEELS LIKE THE RIGHT TIME, featuring photographic works from the acclaimed series “Ça Va Aller” (2016-2019) as...More »
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Bruce Nauman “His Mark”
Sperone Westwater presents His Mark, a new six-channel 3-D video installation by Bruce Nauman, his fourteenth show at the gallery since his first in 1976. Nauman drew inspiration for this new artwork from...More »
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Shaunté Gates “The Land of Myth: Poppies & Parachutes”
Sperone Westwater presents Shaunté Gates’s first exhibition at the gallery showcasing the artist’s new series “The Land of Myth.” Featuring mixed media paintings, Gates’s show is a psychogeographical interrogation...More »
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Jitish Kallat “Tmesis”
Sperone Westwater presents Jitish Kallat’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Entitled Tmesis, the exhibition links artistic, historical and scientific inquiries, interlacing the immediate and the...More »
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Amy Lincoln Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of ten new paintings by Amy Lincoln, the artist’s first show at the gallery since she joined the roster in July. In this series of imaginary seascapes, Lincoln...More »
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Bertozzi & Casoni Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of ceramic sculptures by the Italian artists Bertozzi & Casoni, featuring their new series, The Five Seasons, a reconstruction of the paintings by the late...More »
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“WOOD WORKS Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered” Exhibition
Curated by Kevin Curran and Natalie Sereda Sperone Westwater presents WOOD WORKS: Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered, a diverse exhibition showcasing innovative uses of wood in contemporary art, featuring works...More »
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John Giorno Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents the first posthumous exhibition of John Giorno (1936-2019). This solo marks the late artist’s second show with the gallery, following “John Giorno: DO THE UNDONE” in the Fall...More »
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Peter Sacks “Republic”
Sperone Westwater presents Peter Sacks’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, titled after his epic narrative, Republic. Additional related paintings will be on view, including the series Above Our Cities,...More »
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Alexis Rockman “Lost Cargo: Watercolors”
Sperone Westwater presents new watercolors by New York City-based artist Alexis Rockman, his fourth solo at the gallery since his first, “Evolution,” in 1992. This timely exhibition is inspired by the...More »
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Otto Piene Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents a solo exhibition featuring Otto Piene’s ceramics and early Rasterbilder (screen pictures). From ZERO’s inception in 1957, Piene’s exploration of light centered on his use...More »
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Bruce Nauman Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents three new unique sculptures by Bruce Nauman, his thirteenth solo at the gallery, his first 45 years ago in 1976. Since the late 1960s, Nauman has consistently questioned what...More »
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Richard Long “Muddy Heaven”
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new work by Richard Long, MUDDY HEAVEN, his sixteenth solo show with the gallery since his first in 1976. Richard Long’s art is grounded in his direct engagement...More »
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Susan Rothenberg Exhibition
Sperone Westwater is pleased to present eight new paintings and six works on paper by Susan Rothenberg for the artist’s twelfth solo show at the gallery. Inspired by the artist’s surroundings in New...More »
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David Lynch “Squeaky Flies in the Mud”
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new work by artist and filmmaker David Lynch, his first with the gallery. The show will feature paintings, works on paper, watercolors, lamp sculptures and furniture. Lynch’s...More »
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John Giorno Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new work by renowned artist and poet John Giorno, his first with the gallery. Giorno’s outsized influence as a poet stems from the expansive and multidisciplinary...More »
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Andy Warhol “By Hand: Part II Drawings 1950s – 1960s”
Sperone Westwater presents Andy Warhol By Hand: Part II, Drawings 1950s – 1960s curated by Vincent Fremont, Warhol’s right-hand man for two decades and a founder of the Andy Warhol Foundation. A continuation...More »
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Katy Moran ”I want to live in the afternoon of that day”
Sperone Westwater is pleased to presents its first solo exhibition of new paintings by Katy Moran and her first in New York since 2015. Color has assumed a newly significant role in Moran’s work over...More »
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Emil Lukas Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents new work by Emil Lukas. His fourth exhibition at the gallery is comprised of stacks, thread paintings, bubble wrap paintings and larvae paintings. Lukas’ work continues to...More »
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Peter Halley “Unseen Paintings: 1997 – 2002”
Sperone Westwater presents Peter Halley: Unseen Paintings: 1997–2002, From the Collection of Gian Enzo Sperone. Between 1992 and 2002, Peter Halley’s paintings were seldom seen in New York City — during...More »
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Malcolm Morley “Tally-ho”
“I turned the art world into a family. One of the great things about being an artist is that you can pick your own ancestors.” -Malcolm Morley Sperone Westwater presents Malcolm Morley: Tally-ho, the...More »
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Alexis Rockman “New Mexico Field Drawings”
Sperone Westwater presents Alexis Rockman: New Mexico Field Drawings, the artist’s third solo show with the gallery, featuring a group of works that were recently exhibited at SITE Santa Fe in the exhibition...More »
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Jitish Kallat “Decimal Point”
Sperone Westwater presents Jitish Kallat’s debut exhibition Decimal Point. Following his critically acclaimed mid-career survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and his one-person...More »
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Wolfgang Laib “Where The Land And Water End”
Sperone Westwater presents Where the Land and Water End, Wolfgang Laib’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery. Including sculpture, works on paper, and a wall drawing, the exhibition showcases Laib’s...More »
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Kim Dingle “Painting Blindfolded”
Sperone Westwater presents Kim Dingle’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, centering on an ambitious series of new grisaille paintings. Selected vintage works will situate these in the broader context...More »
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Michael Landy “Breaking News”
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new work by Michael Landy. An outlier among the well-known generation of young artists who emerged in London in the 1990s, Landy shares their wry attitude towards...More »
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William Wegman “Dressed and Undressed”
Sperone Westwater presents William Wegman Dressed and Undressed, a show of 20 x 24 Polaroids spanning over 30 years of work and exhibited for the first time in the artist’s sixth solo exhibition at the...More »
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Tom Sachs “Objects of Devotion”
Sperone Westwater presents Objects of Devotion, Tom Sachs’s fourth solo at the gallery, showcasing the artist’s radical expansion of the category of sculpture and his restless curiosity about our “culture...More »
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“Pictography” Exhibition
David Armacost Katherine Bradford EJ Hauser Yevgeniya Baras John Finneran Guillermo Kuitca Michael Berryhill Heather Guertin Ryan McLaughlin Sperone Westwater presents Pictography, a group...More »
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“Territories” Exhibition
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Ali Banisadr “Trust in the Future”
Sperone Westwater presents Ali Banisadr: Trust in the Future, a show of new paintings and work on paper in the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Neither fully abstract nor definitively...More »
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Andrew Sendor “Saturday’s Ascent”
Sperone Westwater presents Andrew Sendor: Saturday’s Ascent, an exhibition of twelve paintings accompanied by an audio narration. This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery. Sendor’s work...More »
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Helmut Lang Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents new work by Helmut Lang in the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Since 2007, Lang has worked with found objects and readily available materials to create a dense,...More »
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Heinz Mack Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents Heinz Mack’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Mack made his reputation in the late 1950s when (along with Otto Piene) he founded the ZERO group, whose experimental and...More »
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Emil Lukas and Katherine Bradford Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents simultaneous exhibitions by Emil Lukas and Katherine Bradford. Lukas’s work, on the first and second floors of the gallery, is comprised of four series, including Stacks, Thread...More »
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Susan Rothenberg Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents new paintings by Susan Rothenberg for the artist’s eleventh solo show at the gallery since 1987 and her first show of new work in five years. This follows the gallery’s recent...More »
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Bruce Nauman “Contrapposto Studies, i through vii”
Sperone Westwater presents a new video installation by Bruce Nauman, widely regarded to be among the most important living artists, and a catalyst for the recent shift in artistic practice toward conceptual...More »
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“Splotch” Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents Splotch, a two-venue exhibition on the Lower East Side curated by Eileen Jeng. Splotch features artists whose work involves a methodical and controlled process of creating seemingly...More »
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Mario Merz “Works from the 1980s”
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of vintage paintings and sculptures by Italian artist Mario Merz (1925-2003), a widely recognized leader of the Arte Povera movement. This solo show is the ninth...More »
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William Wegman “Postcard Paintings”
Sperone Westwater presents William Wegman: Postcard Paintings, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by the celebrated American artist. The exhibition coincides with the publication of William Wegman:...More »
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Otto Piene “Sundew and Selected Works 1957-2014”
Sperone Westwater presents a retrospective of painting, sculpture, and installation by Otto Piene, the co-founder of the ZERO group, who died in 2014 at the age of 86. Embodying several important themes...More »
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“Painting in Italy 1910s-1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art” Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents Painting in Italy 1910s-1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art, a group exhibition of influential Italian painters working before, during and after World War II, curated...More »
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Nanda Vigo Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents a solo exhibition by Nanda Vigo, the artist’s first in the United States. Vigo is widely recognized as a pioneer of contemporary Italian sculpture, installation and architecture....More »
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Richard Long “Crescent to Cross”
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new work by Richard Long, “Crescent to Cross,” the artist’s fifteenth solo show with the gallery since his first in 1978. Over the course of his career, Long...More »
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“Space and Matter” Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents Space and Matter, a group show on the gallery’s third floor featuring Kadar Brock, Helmut Lang, Daniel Lefcourt, Richard Long, Heinz Mack, Sam Moyer, Anthony Pearson, Otto Piene,...More »
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Malcolm Morley Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents a solo exhibition by Malcolm Morley, his fifth since his debut at the gallery in 1999, comprising 15 new paintings completed between 2013 and 2015. This newest body of work expands...More »
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Andrew Sendor “Delicates”
Sperone Westwater presents Andrew Sendor: “Delicates,” an exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and a film. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. “Delicates” reveals a sprawling...More »
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“Signs/Words” Exhibition
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Helmut Lang Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of sculptures by Helmut Lang, the artist’s first New York gallery solo show. Lang’s artistic practice is characterized by his use of materials and textures, assembled...More »
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Heinz Mack “From ZERO to Today, 1955-2014”
Sperone Westwater announces the exhibition “Heinz Mack: From ZERO to Today, 1955-2014.” Mack co-founded the ZERO group, organizing an inaugural series of one-evening exhibitions with fellow German artist...More »
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Not Vital “Everton”
Sperone Westwater presents a Not Vital exhibition featuring new stainless steel sculptures, HEADS, and a series of related drawings. Vital developed this striking sculptural series in his studio in the...More »
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“Summer Sculpture” Exhibition
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Guillermo Kuitca “This Way”
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new paintings by Guillermo Kuitca, marking over 20 years of collaboration between the Argentinean artist and the gallery. Kuitca’s new paintings incorporate...More »
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Ali Banisadr “Motherboard”
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new paintings by Ali Banisadr, the artist’s first solo show at the gallery entitled “Motherboard.” Banisadr’s exuberant paintings oscillate between the abstract...More »
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Emil Lukas Exhibition
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Bruce Nauman “Some Illusions: Drawings and Videos”
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new works by Bruce Nauman on November 7. The exhibition will feature new videos and series of new drawings. Some of these works are a continuation of the...More »
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“Radio Waves: New York ‘Nouveau Realisme’ and Rauschenberg” Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents, in cooperation with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, an exhibition of sculpture and drawings by members of the ‘Nouveau Realiste’ group and by Rauschenberg. What links this...More »
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Alexis Rockman “Rubicon”
Sperone Westwater presents Alexis Rockman’s exhibition of new paintings and watercolors entitled “Rubicon.” For almost three decades, Rockman has depicted a darkly surreal vision of the collision between...More »
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Mark Greenwold “Murdering the World, Paintings and Drawings 2007-2013”
Sperone Westwater presents Mark Greenwold’s first exhibition at the gallery. Given the extreme nature of Greenwold’s painting process, the slowness and deliberation with which the paintings are made, he...More »
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Wim Delvoye Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of recent laser-cut stainless steel and bronze sculptures by Wim Delvoye. Known and described as a provocative and subversive artist, Delvoye is tied to a decontextualized...More »
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Nabil Nahas Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new paintings by Nabil Nahas. The artist employs thick layers of acrylic paint and pumice to create colorful, spatially complex paintings with a distinctive...More »
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Andrew Sendor "messages.calendar.camera.jpg"
Brooklyn-based artist Andrew Sendor transports us to the future with his paintings that document museum installations yet to be created in his first exhibition at Sperone Westwater. Confounding the notation...More »
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Wolfgang Laib "Without Beginning and Without End"
In his seventh exhibition at the gallery, German artist Wolfgang Laib will create a ziggurat over 14 feet high from slabs of wax, reflecting his interest in pre-modern, non-western dwellings and spiritual...More »
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Fabio Viale "Stargate"
Sperone Westwater announces Stargate, Fabio Viale’s first solo exhibition in New York. For his realistic sculptures, Viale uses marble exclusively to recontextualize banal objects, such as crates and tires,...More »
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"A Picture Gallery in the Italian Tradition of the Quadreria (1750-1850)" Exhibition
In collaboration with Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome, Sperone Westwater presents, A Picture Gallery in the Italian Tradition of the Quadreria (1750-1850). The exhibition showcases 29 paintings and drawings,...More »
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Kutlug Ataman "Mesopotamian Dramaturgies"
Sperone Westwater announces its representation of artist Kutlug Ataman and his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Ataman returns to New York after eight years of working intensively in Europe and the...More »
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Mario Merz "Major Works from the 1980s"
This is the artist's eighth solo show at Sperone Westwater and will feature three major painting and one sculpture from the early 1980s. By incorporating accessible and unconventional materials from everyday...More »
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Liu Ye "Bamboo Bamboo Broadway"
Sperone Westwater presents Bamboo Bamboo Broadway, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Liu Ye. For his third solo show at the gallery, the artist continues to engage the history of modernism, while referencing...More »
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Braco Dimitrijević Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents a solo exhibition of historical and recent works by Braco Dimitrijević. The conceptual artist first exhibited at Galleria Sperone in Turin in 1974 and in New York in 1975. On...More »
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"Moving Spirits" Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents Moving Spirits: François Morellet & Gerhard von Graevenitz an exhibition of works by François Morellet (French, born 1926) and Gerhard von Graevenitz (German, 1934 – 1983)...More »
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"AN ACCUMULATION OF INFORMATION TAKEN FROM HERE TO THERE" Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents, AN ACCUMULATION OF INFORMATION TAKEN FROM HERE TO THERE, a group exhibition focused on works from the late 1960s to early 1970s. Taking its title from Lawrence Weiner’s 1970...More »
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William Wegman "Artists Including Me"
Sperone Westwater presents Artists Including Me, a solo exhibition by William Wegman of recent postcard paintings that feature imagery from secondhand souvenirs, imaginary landscapes, and art about art....More »
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Peter Shelton "powerhousefrenchtablenecklaces"
Sperone Westwater presents a survey of sculptures by Peter Shelton. These corporeal and architectural works from 1989 to the present are both abstract and referential. Their materiality and subject matter...More »
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Kim Dingle "still lives"
Sperone Westwater announces the fourth solo exhibition of new paintings by Kim Dingle who is also writing this press release. Paint is more interesting than any other subject… Subjects are useful for paint...More »
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Martin Wilner "Making History 2010 - 2011"
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of recent pen, ink, and graphite drawings by Martin Wilner, the artist’s second solo show at the gallery. In his now decade-long body of work, Making History, Wilner...More »
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Not Vital "十 五"
Sperone Westwater presents new sculptures by Swiss sculptor, Not Vital. The exhibition, entitled, 十 五, is the artist’s sixth solo show at the gallery. In these works of marble, steel, plaster, gold, and...More »
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"Portraits/Self-Portraits" Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of portrait and self-portrait paintings by notable European and American artists from the sixteenth century to the present. This survey includes Old Master paintings...More »
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"Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to Last Week" Exhibition
Sperone Westwater is pleased to present an exhibition of white marble sculptures dating from 350 B.C. to the present day. This survey includes Greek and Roman antiquities, Neoclassical sculptures, and...More »
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Tom Sachs Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents new paintings and sculptures by Tom Sachs in the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. Sachs has a reverence for the ritual act of work itself and the sculptures and...More »
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Susan Rothenberg Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of thirteen new paintings by Susan Rothenberg, the artist’s tenth solo show at the gallery since 1987. Rothenberg continues to challenge and extend painterly conventions...More »
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Richard Long "Flow and Ebb"
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new work by Richard Long. This is the artist’s fourteenth solo show at Sperone Westwater, and his first in the new Norman Foster-designed gallery. Over the course...More »
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Malcolm Morley "Rules of Engagement"
Sperone Westwater is pleased to present its fourth solo exhibition of Malcolm Morley, entitled Rules of Engagement. The show will include eleven new paintings as well as the rarely shown monumental painting...More »
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Robert Barry "Recent Mirrorpieces"
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of recent works by Robert Barry. Exhibiting since the early 1960’s, Barry maintains a Minimalist aesthetic while working within a Conceptual framework. In this...More »
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Emil Lukas "Larva, Bubble, and Thread"
Sperone Westwater announces "Larva, Bubble, and Thread", an exhibition of new mixed-media paintings by Emil Lukas. Lukas uses larva, bubble wrap and thread, along with the more traditional materials of...More »
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Evan Penny Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new sculpture by Evan Penny. For this exhibition of five new works, Penny continues to create altered renderings of the human figure made of silicone, pigment,...More »
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"Heinz Mack: Early Metal Reliefs 1957-1967" Exhibition
Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce the first survey of Heinz Mack’s early metal reliefs (1957 - 1967). Together with fellow German artist Otto Piene, Mack co-founded the ZERO group in 1957, which...More »
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Bruce Nauman "For Children/For Beginners"
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new work by Bruce Nauman. For Children/For Beginners consists of both audio and video installations. These sculptures extend Nauman’s ongoing artistic practice—dating...More »
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Guillermo Kuitca "Paintings 2008-2010, Le Sacre 1992"
For its inaugural exhibition at 257 Bowery, Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Guillermo Kuitca and the artist's vintage and pivotal work, "Le Sacre," comprised...More »
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Otto Piene "Light Ballet and Fire Paintings, 1960-1967"
Sperone Westwater presents a solo exhibition of Otto Piene’s historical Light Ballet sculptures and Fire Paintings from 1960 to 1967. Piene created these works during the prime years of the ZERO movement,...More »
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Bertozzi & Casoni "Intervallo"
Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent sculpture by the Italian team Bertozzi & Casoni. The artists’ second solo show at the gallery, it consists of ceramic works in their...More »
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Liu Ye "Leave Me in the Dark"
Sperone Westwater announces an exhibition of paintings by Liu Ye. This is the artist’s second solo show at Sperone Westwater in New York. For this new body of work, Liu Ye continues to engage the history...More »
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"Zig Zag" Exhibition
Sperone Westwater announces Zig Zag, a group exhibition of works created between the late 1960s and early 1970s. Taking its title from a 1966 sculpture by Alighiero e Boetti, the show spotlights the activities...More »
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Sculpture Show
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Malcolm Morley Exhibition
On view will be four paintings, four works on paper, and one large-scale sculpture, all completed between 2007 and 2009. Inspired by motocross and NASCAR racing scenes, these new works demonstrate Morley’s...More »
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Susan Rothenberg Exhibition
In these new works on canvas, Rothenberg has created compositions with fragmented images of the body. Acting as surrogates for the human form, Rothenberg uses these disembodied puppet legs, heads and arms...More »
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Evan Penny Exhibition
For this exhibition of ten new works, Penny has expanded his practice of creating “altered” renderings of the human figure from silicone, pigment, hair and aluminum. With the exception of "Large Murray,"...More »
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"Zero in NY" Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents, for the first time in the United States, a survey of works by members of the Zero group created between the late 1950s and late 1960s. Inspired by the recent survey “ZERO: Internationale...More »
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"Sculpting Time" Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of works by Josef Albers, Andrew Grassie, On Kawara, Giorgio Morandi and Roman Opalka. Each of these artists has dedicated himself to a lifelong practice of art-making...More »
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Tom Sachs "Animals"
Sperone Westwater announces an exhibition of new work by Tom Sachs entitled Animals. Sachs will divide the gallery space into ten small rooms, each containing individual works. Whether literally depicted,...More »
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Aaron van Erp and Sebastian Ludwig Exhibition
Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new paintings by Dutch artist, Aaron van Erp, and an exhibition of new and recent paintings by German artist, Sebastian Ludwig. This is the first solo show for...More »