Mary Boone Gallery (Midtown) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Mary Boone Gallery (Midtown). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Derrick Adams “New Icons”
Mary Boone Gallery presents new paintings by DERRICK ADAMS. New Icons is a series of large-scale, vivid and minimal oil paintings created through a combined process of CNC machined painting and the...More »
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Erik Parker “New Soul”
A highlight of the exhibition is a series of tondo paintings of various sizes depicting pools of water within luxuriant landscapes. Parker’s characteristic array of intense colors infuses these scenes,...More »
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Barbara Kruger “1978”
Made in the year 1978, these works are early examples of Kruger’s use of image and text. Forty years later, they elucidate the roots of her engagement with pictures, words, the episodic, and the everyday....More »
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Judith Barry “Cairo Stories”
Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Fifth Avenue location Cairo Stories, an exhibition curated by Piper Marshall of works by Judith Barry. The installation consists of 11 diptychs (photograph and accompanying...More »
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Math Bass “My Dear Dear Letter”
My Dear Dear Letter, an exhibition curated by Piper Marshall of new paintings by MATH BASS. My Dear Dear Letter presents a recent entry to Math Bass’s ongoing “Newz!” paintings, adding to the artist’s...More »
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Carrie Moyer “Seismic Shuffle”
With Seismic Shuffle, Moyer invites us to the psychic interval between dormancy and the incipient rumblings of a new age. Teeming with loamy colors of the forest floor, these eight paintings evoke associations...More »
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Kathe Burkhart “From the Liz Taylor Series”
Kathe Burkhart has painted depictions of Elizabeth Taylor for more than thirty years. Both performance and working method, Burkhart’s paintings comprise a lively and imaginative catalogue from the many...More »
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Tomoo Gokita “Beauty”
From his early work in graphic design and artist books, Tomoo Gokita evolved a distinctive manner of painting that incorporated a wide variety of brush marks and a range of shades between black and white....More »
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Will Cotton Exhibition
The attractive elsewhere promised in the child’s board game Candy Land continues to serve Will Cotton as a metaphor for adult desire, temptation, and indulgence. The paintings in the current exhibition...More »
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Leidy Churchman “Kindly Bent to Ease Us”
Mary Boone Gallery presents Kindly Bent to Ease Us by LEIDY CHURCHMAN. The exhibition of new work is shown in collaboration with Janice Guy and is curated by Piper Marshall. In a 1977 issue of the Harvard...More »
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Fia Backström “Woe men - keep going”
Mary Boone Gallery presents Woe men - keep going, a configuration of photographic works conceived of by FIA BACKSTRÖM and curated by Piper Marshall. A conceptual artist who has worked on arrangements...More »
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Rebecca Morris “#24”
Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Fifth Avenue location #24, an exhibition of paintings by REBECCA MORRIS, curated by Piper Marshall. A celebrated painter whose work mines formalism, punk, and abstraction,...More »
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“Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches” Exhibition
Mary Boone Gallery presents at both its Fifth Avenue and Chelsea locations Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches, an exhibition of recent works by eminent international artist and human rights activist AI...More »
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Jacob Hashimot “The First Known Map of the Moon”
With their arrangement of discs suspended from string, Jacob Hashimoto’s works - occupying a place between painting and sculpture - bear resemblance to models of a complex planetary system. For this exhibition,...More »
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Sadie Benning “Green God”
On 28 April 2016 Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Fifth Avenue location Green God, an exhibition curated by Piper Marshall of new paintings by SADIE BENNING. The exhibition is in cooperation with Callicoon...More »
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Ericka Beckman “Hiatus”
Mary Boone Gallery opens at its Fifth Avenue location Hiatus by ERICKA BECKMAN. The exhibition, curated by Piper Marshall, realizes the eponymous film as a double–projection; the original film is screened...More »
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Zak Kitnick “Lime in the Coconut”
Zak Kitnick redeploys and transforms objects and tools usually associated with sorting, ordering, and filtering. Screens, shelving, packaging, and taxonomic posters are used to transport meaning and refocus...More »
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Peter Schuyff Exhibition
A fixture of New York’s East Village art scene in the 1980s and a prominent member of that era’s loosely defined “Neo-Geo” movement, Peter Schuyff left New York in 2003 to return to Vancouver, where he...More »
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Ralph Gibson “Political Abstraction”
Mary Boone Gallery opens at its Fifth Avenue location Political Abstraction, an exhibition of new work by RALPH GIBSON. Ralph Gibson has been photographing for more than fifty years, beginning his career...More »
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Judith Bernstein “Voyeur”
Mary Boone Gallery presents at its Fifth Avenue location Voyeur, an exhibition curated by Piper Marshall of recent paintings and drawings by Voyeur Judith Bernstein is a painter whose direct, expressionistic...More »
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Caitlin Keogh “The Corps”
The Corps, an exhibition of paintings by CAITLIN KEOGH, curated by Piper Marshall. Caitlin Keogh is a painter whose work plays with, and undermines, the traditional relationship between technical illustration...More »
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Ryan Mc Namara “Gently Used”
A celebrated artist whose work spans sculpture, video, photography, dance, and performance, Mc Namara brings wit and a historical consciousness to bear on our technologically mannered lives. In Gently...More »
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Alexander Kaletski “Red Carpet”
This new body of work captures the artist’s unique peripheral perspective on an American culture fueled by celebrities, fame and red carpet iconicity. Although riddled with underlying commentary, the work...More »
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E.V. Day “Semi-Feral”
The centerpiece of the exhibition is CatFight, a site-specific gravity-defying installation originally conceived during E.V. Day’s residence at Artpace, the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio, Texas....More »
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Dawoud Bey “The Birmingham Project”
The Birmingham Project is a response to the tragic events of the Civil Rights Movement that unfolded on Sunday, 15 September 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. That morning, a time-delay bomb planted by a Ku...More »
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Jim Isermann and B. Wurtz Exhibition
Jim Isermann and B. Wurtz met in 1979 while enrolled in graduate studies at CalArts in Valencia, California. While each pursues a different use of materials and mode of expression, they share a common...More »
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G.T. Pellizzi Exhibition
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” -Soren Kierkegaard “A philosophy that does not include the possibility of soothsaying from coffee grounds is not a true philosophy.” -Walter...More »
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Peter Saul “Paintings from the 60s and 70s”
Mary Boone Gallery presents an exhibition Paintings from the 60s and 70s by PETER SAUL. After living in Europe in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Peter Saul returned to America in 1964 with an already...More »
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Liu Xiaodong “In Between Israel and Palestine”
Mary Boone Gallery presents In Between Israel and Palestine, a series of recent paintings by LIU XIAODONG. Liu Xiaodong combines expressive on-site painting, drawing, film, photography, and diary keeping...More »
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Peter Halley and Alessandro Mendini Exhibtiion
The exhibition will feature nine new Halley paintings installed on digitally-printed wallpaper designed by Mendini in his atelier in Milan, Italy. Halley’s paintings continue to use his now-iconic...More »
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Joe Zucker "Empire Descending the Staircase"
The exhibition title references Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase”, a painting famously excoriated for its deconstruction of representation when it was displayed at the Armory Show exactly...More »
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Peter Saul, Jim Shaw Exhibition
Mary Boone Gallery opens at its Fifth Avenue location an exhibition of works on paper by PETER SAUL and JIM SHAW. The exhibition has been organized by writer and curator Klaus Kertess. Works by Jim Shaw...More »
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Ai Weiwei "Forge"
Mary Boone Gallery presents at both its Fifth Avenue and Chelsea locations Forge, an exhibition of recent works by eminent international artist and human rights activist AI WEIWEI. A magnitude eight...More »
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Ernst Wilhelm Nay Exhibition
Mary Boone Galleries and Michael Werner present their collaborative exhibition surveying the work of German artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902-1968). The most important German painter during the first half...More »
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Will Cotton Exhibition
Conjuring his signature land of plentiful sweets, for the touchstone of this group of new works the Artist depicts Katy Perry (Cotton served as Artistic Director for her 2010 California Gurls music video)...More »
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Susan Hartnett, Ralph Humphrey, Marilyn Lerner, Dona Nelson Exhibition
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Eric Fischl Exhibition
Dating from 1992 to 2011, the works in the exhibition range from sketched portraits cropped to the face, to commanding single figures, to complex arrangements of couples, families, or groups. As in the...More »
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Jim Isermann "Reunion"
Mary Boone Gallery presents a selection of work from the 1980s by JIM ISERMANN. Isermann belongs to that influential second generation of LA artists who post-graduated from CalArts in the late 1970s....More »
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Jacob Hashimoto "The End of Gravity"
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Luis Gispert "Decepción"
A journey through fashion’s elusive and eccentric counterfeit culture, as he presents his latest exhibition of photographs of Luis Gispert titled "decepción." [Image: Luis Gispert "Sprouse Gouse" (2011)...More »
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Phoebe Washburn "Temperatures in a Lab of Superior Specialness"
Phoebe Washburn’s work explores generative systems based on absurd patterns of production often created by inefficiency. The rules that govern Washburn’s systems of production inform her sculpture and...More »
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Hilary Harkness Exhibition
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Chie Fueki Exhibition
For this new group of paintings, Chie Fueki uses likenesses of her friends as a vehicle for constructing imagined, anthropomorphized space. Although the works operate as representational, nearly life-size...More »
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Olivier Mosset Exhibition
Olivier Mosset is one of the affiliates of the BMPT group (the others are Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni) who, in Paris in the 1960s, launched a conceptual challenge to the high regard of...More »
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Francesco Clemente Exhibition
Mary Boone Gallery presents an exhibition of recent works on paper by FRANCESCO CLEMENTE. The exhibition presents a sampling of contemplative work by Francesco Clemente. Created over four years and...More »
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Lee Friedlander "Recent Western Landscape"
Mary Boone Gallery presents "Recent Western Landscape" an exhibition of photographs from 2008-2009 by Lee Friedlander. Shot in locations such as Glen Canyon, Death Valley, and the Mojave Desert, in...More »
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Sherrie Levine Exhibition
With her 1985-1986 knots, stripes, and checks diligently painted on bare wood, Sherrie Levine mines the generic and everyday guise of abstraction. Deceptively simple, works from these series on view, like...More »
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Ross Bleckner Exhibition
Time– and, by extension, mortality– has been a prevailing theme of Bleckner’s work since he began exhibiting in the late 1970s. With two distinct new series, Bleckner here focuses on physical and perceptual...More »
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Keith Sonnier “Oldowan Series”
Referencing Sonnier’s investigations at the beginning of his career (the late 1960s) where he employed cloth, neon light, screening, and visible electrical circuitry, the “Oldowan Series” is a group of...More »
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Marc Quinn "Iris"
An exhibition of new paintings by Marc Quinn features round canvases each depicting in gigantic scale the iris of a human eye– turbulently streaked and spotted, suffused with bright colors, and highly...More »
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Peter Halley "Early Work: 1982 to 1987”
Assembled from paintings in American private collections, this exhibition chronicles Peter Halley’s work from 1982 to 1987, the years when, after setling in New York, the artist was developing a body of...More »
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Patty Chang "The Product Love"
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Barry Le Va "Hands, Handles, Blades: Cleaver Configurations 1969-2009"
Curated by Klaus Kertess.More »
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Will Cotton Exhibition
[Image: Will Cotton "Candy Clouds (Hannah)" (2008) oil on linen 72 x 84 in.]More »
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Patricia Coffie Exhibition
One of the two series of photographs on view in Patricia Coffie's debut exhibition, documents the imaginary tribal life of an African male and the other presents an emotion-driven essay on childhood. ...More »
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Aleksandra Mir "White House Purple Heart"
[Image: Aleksandra Mir "White House Black Power" (2008) Marker on Paper 79 x 111 in.]More »
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John Altoon Exhibition
Curated by Klaus Kertess, the exhibition features paintings and works on paper from 1963 to 1968 by John Altoon. John Altoon (1925-1969) was one of the progenitors of the Los Angeles art scene, a native...More »
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Hilary Harkness Exhibition
Meticulously researched and, like Old Master paintings, loaded with minute symbolic details, these represent everything Harkness has completed in the three years since her last exhibition. The subjects...More »
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Liu Xiadong Exhibition
Widely considered to be the leading "New Generation" figurative painter in China, Liu Xiaodong studied at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he now teaches. This will be his...More »