Francis M. Naumann Fine Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Depicting Duchamp: Portraits of Marcel Duchamp and/or Rrose Sélavy” Exhibition
“Depicting Duchamp: Portraits of Marcel Duchamp and/or Rrose Sélavy” opens at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. As the title suggests, the show will consist of portraits of Marcel Duchamp and/or the artist...More »
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“New York Dada and the Arensberg Circle of Artists” Exhibition
“New York Dada and the Arensberg Circle of Artists” opens at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. The show will emphasize the contributions made to New York Dada by its three leading protagonists—Man Ray, Marcel...More »
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Joseph/Brinker “Hybrids”
Both Pamela Joseph and Rob Brinker have had prior solo exhibitions at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, but this is the first time their work will be displayed together in a two-person show. For over 25 years,...More »
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Kathy Ruttenberg “Private Myths / Public Dreams”
This is American artist Kathy Ruttenberg’s first exhibition, Private Myths / Public Dreams, at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art in New York City. Known for a singular and fantastical mix of human, nature, and...More »
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Paul Laffoley “The Visionary Point”
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Tom Hackney “Corresponding Squares: Painting the Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp”
Tom Hackney: Corresponding Squares: Painting the Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp, a show comprised of 17 paintings will open at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. This is Tom Hackney’s first solo show in the...More »
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Mike Bidlo “NOT Duchamp: Fountain and Bottle Rack”
MIKE BIDLO: NOT Duchamp: Fountain and Bottle Rack is the artist’s second solo exhibition at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art (the first—Erased de Kooning Drawings—was held over ten years ago, in 2005). Bidlo...More »
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Nancy Becker “Translations and Unexplored Space”
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“CENSORED: New Paintings by Pamela Joseph” Exhibition
“CENSORED: New Paintings by Pamela Joseph,” as the title suggests, the paintings involve the theme of censorship, specifically, in this case, select details of well-known paintings and sculpture that were...More »
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Ai Weiwei Exhibition
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art announces the opening of two concurrent exhibitions devoted to the work of Ai Weiwei, the infamous Chinese dissident whose work not only challenges prevailing aesthetic tendencies,...More »
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Leon Kelly “Draftsman Extraordinaire”
The first exhibition devoted to the drawings of Leon Kelly held in nearly seventy years. They were last shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1945, which included primarily drawings executed...More »
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Kathleen Gilje “Witch’s Brew”
This will be Gilje’s third exhibition at the gallery. A veteran painting restorer, Gilje is renowned for her intricate recreations of artworks revised to provide shrewd, often humorous social commentary,...More »
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Man Ray “Printmaker”
Man Ray is best known as a photographer, indeed, as one of the most innovative photographers of the modern era. That well-deserved reputation has, however, tended to overshadow his work in other media,...More »
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"Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage” Exhibition
To celebrate the original Armory Show which was held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City in February-March of 1913, “Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage” will open at the gallery...More »
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Sophie Matisse "It's Time"
Sophie Matisse’s recent paintings mark a shift away from what she is best known for, which is convincing variations of paintings by famous artists, ranging from Leonardo and Vermeer to Pierre Bonnard and...More »
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Jean Crotti "Inhabiting Abstraction"
Jean Crotti (1878-1958) is a Swiss-born French painter whose restless spirit and insatiable desire to create an entirely new mode of artistic expression prevented him from developing a consistent and clearly...More »
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Gordon Onslow Ford "Paintings and Works on Paper: 1939-1951"
This is the first exhibition devoted to Onslow Ford’s work in New York since a show at the Nierendorf Gallery in 1946. It begins with several proto-Surrealist works made in Paris in the late 1930s. Highlighted...More »
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Tom Shannon "New Nature"
"The paint pendulum instrument I designed for my work produces imagery of a very different sort than any of the above. I won't say much about it here, except that it is a smooth interface with the ambient...More »
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"The Visible Vagina" Exhibition
As the title of the exhibition suggests, the show is designed to make visible a portion of the female anatomy that is generally considered taboo―too private and intimate for public display. If shown at...More »
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Pamela Joseph "Wunderlust"
“Wunderlust” is a term of the artist’s invention, a combination of the German wanderlust—meaning a desire to wander or travel—with the English word “wonder,” implying admiration or awe, particularly for...More »
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“Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess" Exhibition
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess” is the first exhibition devoted to exploring the influence of Duchamp’s activities as a chess player on his artistic production. The exhibition features the magnificent...More »
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Leon Kelly "An American Surrealist"
Leon Kelly (1901-1982) is a major American Surrealist painter, who, due to an innately reclusive disposition, died in comparative obscurity. In the 1940s, however, he was known and recognized for a style...More »
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“Kathleen Gilje: 48 Portraits / Sargent’s Women, Restored” Exhibition
A new series of paintings by Kathleen Gilje presents forty-eight portraits of women “excised” and “stripped bare” from paintings by the great American portraitist John Singer Sargent. The first impression...More »
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"Stanley William Hayter in America Paintings, Drawings, and Prints 1940-1950" Exhibition
This show is confined exclusively to work produced by Hayter during his years in New York (that is to say, during the 1940s). It has been argued that this period marked the moment of his greatest influence,...More »
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Brice Brown "American Boy"
Presenting new work that combines painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and Internet-based art, Brown demonstrates how codified or repressed information always lurks just beneath the surface of...More »
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“Teacher-Student/Student-Teacher: The Photographs of Man Ray, Berenice Abbott, and Naomi Savage” Exhibition
Man Ray (1890-1976) is not known as a teacher, yet in his work as a professional photographer, he occasionally took on apprentices and taught them how to use the camera, as well as how to develop and print...More »
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"Manufactured Unreality" Exhibition
Organized by artist Don Joint, this exhibition brings together a diverse range of works in a variety of materials—all made under the general rubric of collage. A number of artists from the past—Enrico...More »
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Sophie Matisse "Pentimenti"
Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are the pentimenti of Sophie Matisse’s art and life. Although she never had the opportunity to meet either man personally, their presence persists in her work. This presence...More »