Spanierman Modern - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Spanierman Modern. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Modern Selections” Exhibition
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“July Selections” Exhibition
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“June Selections” Exhibition
[Image: Lynne Drexler “Lavender Lou” (1959–62) oil on canvas 62 1/4 x 58 in.]More »
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Beatriz Elorza “Breathing Color”
An exhibition and sale of new mixed media on canvas abstractions. A Spanish artist currently living in New York City, Elorza is inspired by her surroundings and translates the energy and visual information...More »
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Dan Christensen “Sprays and Stains”
An exhibition consisting of the innovative abstract paintings Christensen created from the late 1960s until his death in 2007 that are characterized by their vibrant and unique optical effects. In the...More »
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Katherine Parker “chants/chance”
An exhibition and sale of new large-scale abstractions in which Parker considers the porous relationships that each of us has with our subconscious selves. Her vibrant many-layered works explore the amorphous...More »
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Syd Solomon Exhibition
[Image: Syd Solomon “Lure of Westlight” (1977) oil and acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 in. © Estate of Syd Solomon} More »
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Jasmina Danowski “My Marbles”
An exhibition of new works in oil, ink and gesso on paper, including highlights of some of the artist’s latest explorations. The show’s title is derived from a dream, and the large-scale paintings, with...More »
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Lisa Nankivil Exhibition
[Image: Lisa Nankivil “Citron” (2012) oil on canvas 38 1/4 x 32 1/4 in.]More »
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Jasmina Danowski “Cabin Fever”
[Image: Jasmina Danowski “Cabin Fever II” (2013) ink and gesso on paper 60 x 40 in.]More »
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Frank Bowling "Paintings, 1967–2012"
[Image: Frank Bowling "Upright" (2012) acrylic on canvas 74 x 53 in.]More »
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"Thirteen Contemporary Artists" Exhibition
[Image: Frank Wimberley "Western Wall" (2012) acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 in.] More »
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"Radiance: The Paintings of Stanley Boxer, 1970s-1990s" Exhibition
[Image: Stanley Boxer "Strayofawoodedednight" (1988) mixed media on canvas 24 x 19 in.]More »
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"Abstract Strength" Exhibition
[Image: Perle Fine "Winter (Charcoal Red)" (ca. 1960) oil on canvas 52 x 90 in.]More »
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Syd Solomon "Abstract Paintings of the 1960s and 1970s"
[Image: Syd Solomon "Acralode" (1971) oil on canvas 41 x 52 in.]More »
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Dan Christensen "The Early Sprays, 1967-1969"
This exhibition features the exuberant and groundbreaking paintings Christensen created in the late 1960s using a spray gun. [Image: Dan Christensen "Untitled" (1968) acrylic on canvas 19 x 19 in.]More »
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Stephen Pace Exhibition
Through his energetic abstractions combining drawing and staining, Pace was an important contributor to the Abstract Expressionist tradition in the 1950s. He turned in the next decade to an innovative...More »
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"Syd Solomon, Stanley Boxer, & Frank Bowling" Exhibition
"Syd Solomon, Stanley Boxer, and Frank Bowling," showcases three artists whose work epitomizes the ebullience and endurance of the abstract expressionist tradition. [Image: Syd Solomon "Midday" (1974)...More »
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Lisa Nankivil "Recent Works"
As in her past work, Nankivil uses a reductive format in which bands of color span horizontal or vertical canvases. Yet, unlike the linear structures in color field paintings, her approach is less conceptual...More »
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"Summer Selections" Exhibition
[Image: Dan Christensen "Wine Green" (1994) acrylic on canvas 55 x 26 in. © D. Christensen 1994]More »
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Carol Hunt Exhibition
[Image: Carol Hunt "Easter Morning" (2011) acrylic and ink on canvas 60 x 48 in.]More »
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"Modern and Contemporary Paintings" Exhibition
[Image: Jasmina Danowski "Tender Trap" (2012) ink and gesso on paper 51 x 51 in.]More »
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"Artists of the East End: Past & Present" Exhibition
[Image: Syd Solomon "G.P.'s Night on Bastille Day" (1978) Oil and acrylic on canvas 66 x 76 in.]More »
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John Little Exhibition
A student of Hans Hofmann and a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, John Little (1907–1984) was at the center of the Abstract Expressionist movement as it unfolded in New York City and East Hampton,...More »
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Jasmina Danowski "Counterglow"
[Image: Jasmina Danowski "Kangaroo Court" (2012) ink and gesso on paper 40 x 40 in.]More »
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"Gallery Selections" Exhibition
An exhibition of "Gallery Selections," presenting paintings from the 1950s to the present. [Image: Willem de Kooning "Woman in a Landscape" (1965) oil on vellum mounted on panel 26.25 x 21.25 in.]More »
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Frank Bowling, O.B.E., RA "Recent Paintings"
The exhibition presents twenty-four richly textured canvases in the abstract expressionist and color field mode by Bowling, whose vibrant, color-filled paintings earned him a place in 2005 as the first...More »
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"Ab Ex and Color Field Paintings" Exhibition
Spanierman Gallery presents Ab Ex and Color Field Paintings , presenting works created from the 1950s to the present by twelve artists: Dan Christensen, Willem de Kooning, Perle Fine, Judith Godwin, Gertrude...More »
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"Impact, Movement, and Simplification: Paintings by Charles Green Shaw, 1960–70" Exhibition
"Impact, Movement, and Simplification: Paintings by Charles Green Shaw, 1960-70," is an exhibition featuring the extraordinary group of paintings Shaw (1892-1974) created from 1966 through 1970 in which...More »
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James Daugherty Exhibition
An exhibition and sale comprised of the remarkable abstract color paintings that this important twentieth-century American modernist created during the last twenty years of his life. The show brings much-deserved...More »
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"Fifteen Contemporary Artists Represented by Spanierman Gallery" Exhibition
[Image: Frank Wimberley "Flutter" (2008) acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 in.]More »
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Stanley Boxer Exhibition
The gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Stanley Boxer (1926–2000), an artist whose work is in numerous museum collections in America and abroad, Boxer worked with indefatigable energy during...More »
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Frank Wimberley Exhibition
The fourteen paintings on view demonstrate the larger scale and more assertive tonality that characterize Frank Wimberley’s current work. Based in New York and Sag Harbor, Wimberley is esteemed for...More »
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"Artists of the East End: Part 2" Exhibition
The gallery is pleased to present "Artists of the East End II," the second part of an exhibition featuring works created from the mid-twentieth century to the present by artists who have lived and worked...More »
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Perle Fine "The Cool Series: (1961-1963)"
"Perle Fine: The Cool Series (1961-1963)" presents the distinctive Color Field paintings created by Fine, an artist who was at the center of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Developing according to...More »
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Burgoyne Diller "Pioneer of Minimalism"
Including works created from the mid-1930s through the mid-1960s, this exhibition demonstrates the precise and skillful technique with which Diller (1906-1965) created the drawings and collages that he...More »
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Melville Price "Paintings - 1960s"
Featuring works in which Price combined Abstract Expressionist methods with a Pop Art sensibility, this exhibition reveals the artist's astute awareness of contemporary experience during a tumultuous decade,...More »
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"Abstract Expressionism and Its Legacy" Exhibition
Presenting a group of paintings reflective of the period when Abstract Expressionism was in its formative years. This was a time when American artists faced existential dilemmas in the aftermath of World...More »
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Stephen Pace "Abstract Expressionist"
The exhibition presents large-scale paintings by Pace (1918-2010), dating from the 1950s through the early 1960s, representing the bold and direct freedom of thought and action that characterized this...More »
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Lisa Nankivil "Lines of Inference"
A contemporary abstractionist, Lisa Nankivil creates distinctive and highly sensuous compositions in which she alternates areas of gestural brushwork with linear ribbons of richly variegated hues. Employing...More »
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"Renewing the Past: Constructions by Demetrio Alfonso" Exhibition
Demetrio Alfonso works with objects picked up on the streets of New York, Alfonso has a veneration for the past, which is expressed throughout his art. His mixed-media constructions reveal the beauty of...More »
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Jack Roth "Color Line Equations"
Jack Roth created a brilliant body of work over a long career, beginning in the late 1940s, when he worked in San Francisco with Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. Along the way, he became a Guggenheim Fellow—...More »
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Jasmina Danowski "Meridians Ago"
"Meridians Ago" is an exhibition of vibrant new abstract works by Jasmina Danowski in oil on canvas, alkyd on panel, and ink and gesso on paper. Creating sensual worlds of luminous emanation, Danowski...More »
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Clifford Smith "Spatial Impact"
This exhibition of works by Clifford Smith consists of new paintings, including the artist’s well-known “ocean fields” as well as urban and rural landscapes. Seemingly photographic, Smith’s images are...More »
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Dan Christensen "The Stain Paintings"
"The Stain Paintings, 1976-1988," features the vibrant and poetic group of abstract paintings created by Christensen (1942-2007), in which the staining of the canvas played a central role. Encompassing...More »
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Burgoyne Diller Exhibition
Recognized as the first American painter to embrace the tenets of Neo-Plasticism, Burgoyne Diller made an important contribution to the development of non-objective art in the United States. Working in...More »
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Judith Godwin Exhibition
A painter who has been committed throughout her long career to abstraction, Judith Godwin uses the gestural methods and expressive color of abstract expressionism to convey her responses to life and nature....More »
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Charlotte Park Exhibition
Charlotte Park was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1918. From 1935 to 1939 she studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. She moved to New York City in 1945 and studied privately...More »
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"Frank Bowling, O.B.E., RA: Paintings 1974–2010" Exhibition
The exhibition presents twenty-three richly textured canvases works in the abstract expressionist and color field mode by the first black artist in history to be elected to the Royal Academy, London. Born...More »
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"August Gallery Selections" Exhibition
[Image: James Daugherty "Abstraction (a double-sided work)" (ca. 1970) oil on canvas 96 x 60 in.] More »
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"Gallery Selections" Exhibition
[Image: Charlotte Park "Tara" (1960) oil on canvas 34 x 34 in.]More »
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Katherine Parker "Watermark"
[Image: Katherine Parker "Smoke" (2007) oil on canvas 60 x 54 in.]More »
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"Ecliptic Terrane: John Little (1907-1984)" Exhibition
"Ecliptic Terrane," is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper created from the 1940s through the 1970s by this pioneering member of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Little made a bold move in...More »
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Teo González Exhibition
An exhibition and sale of paintings in mixed media on canvas and paper by an artist working in the minimalist tradition, for whom the grid is an opportunity to explore themes of predictability and chance....More »
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"Journeys: The Art of Betty Parsons" Exhibition
Parsons's career as a legendary art dealer who represented many of the important avant-garde artists of the mid-twentieth century has often overshadowed a consideration of her own art. This oversight has...More »
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Jimmy Ernst "Radiant Silence"
"Radiant Silence" is an exhibition of the eloquent and quietly moving abstract paintings and works on paper created by an artist (1920-1984) who was uniquely part of two worlds-the European vanguard to...More »
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Jasmina Danowski "Quite a Little Bit"
The exhibiiton includes abstract works in ink and gesso on paper and oil and alkyd on wooden panels. Since moving from Tübingen, Germany, to the United States in 1987 and to New York in 1990, Danowski...More »
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Dan Christensen "The Plaid Paintings"
Spanierman Modern is pleased to announce the opening of "Dan Christensen: The Plaid Paintings," presenting a group of geometrically conceived canvases, created from 1969 to 1971 by this leading figure...More »
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Gary Komarin "Leandro and Luz"
A risk taker in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Komarin creates stalwart images with an epic quality, gripping the viewer with the idea that he or she is looking at a contemporary description of...More »
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"Gallery Selections" Exhibition
[Image: Jasmina Danowski "Life's Rich Pageant" (2009) ink on paper 51 x 84 in.]More »
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"Gallery Selections" Exhibition
[Image: Charlotte Park "Untitled (Red, Blue, and White)" (1950s) Gouache on paper 18 x 24 in.]More »
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Frank Wimberley Exhibition
Based in New York and Sag Harbor, Wimberley uses found objects and handmade tools to scrape and scour his pigments and at times uses sawdust or alumina (a material used in modeling paste) to achieve certain...More »
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"Hot and Cool Abstractions: 1940s to the Present" Exhibition
This exhibition exemplifies the ways American artists from the mid-twentieth century onward have often combined the heated dynamics and intuitive gestural qualities of Abstract Expressionism with more...More »
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"Mark of the Hand" Exhibition
Curator Marilyn Rosenberg says: “in this age of photography, video, and performance, it is important for this curator to seek out the mark of the artist’s hand.” The show presents “five distinct voices,...More »
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Clifford Smith Exhibition
Consisting of twenty-four new landscapes, seascapes, and figurative paintings by Clifford Smith (b.1951), who seeks to "parallel rather than imitate nature." [Image: Clifford Smith "Autumn Breeze" (2008)...More »
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"Gallery Selections" Exhibition
[Image: George Segal "Three Nudes" (ca. 1959) Oil and charcoal on canvas 68 x 96 in.]More »
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Balcomb Greene "A Retrospective"
An iconoclast, intellectual, and forward-thinking artist, Balcomb Greene maintained an active career in which, over the course of six decades, he held to his own individualistic aesthetic and ideological...More »