Norman Bluhm Exhibition

Miles McEnery Gallery

[Image: Norman Bluhm "Mermaid's Delight" (1978) Oil on canvas, 76 x 106 in.]

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Miles McEnery Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings from the 1970s by Norman Bluhm. The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery will open on 28 July at 525 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 1 September 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Zachary Ritter.

“The significance of the 70s for Bluhm’s art can be seen by looking backwards at what preceded it, but also forward at what was to come. His paintings from the 70s marked a watershed in his drive to bring a romanticism of the body into Abstract Expressionism, and the work that followed, in the 80s and 90s, would take this focus further, to extreme and often challenging ends. Though his late work seems even more idiosyncratic with reference, and radical too in how he constructs space, the 70s remain the pivotal years, the ones which saw Bluhm paint using the lessons of the living tradition he was part of, only to move beyond them and into a territory.”
- Zachary Ritter in “Beyond the End: Norman Bluhm in the 1970s”