Michael Werner Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Michael Werner Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Maki Na Kamura Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery present Maki Na Kamura, the first solo exhibition in New York of Osaka-born, Berlin-based painter Maki Na Kamura. Many critics have highlighted the competing polarities in the...More »
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Florian Krewer “Light The Ocean”
Michael Werner Gallery presents Florian Krewer: light the ocean, an exhibition of new paintings by German-born, Bronx-based artist Florian Krewer. With the New York night as his muse, Krewer paints...More »
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Markus Lüpertz “Et in Arcadia ego”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents Markus Lüpertz: Et in Arcadia ego, an exhibition of recent paintings by the eminent German artist Markus Lüpertz. The exhibition shows the artist at his best,...More »
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Antonius Höckelmann and Arnulf Rainer Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents Antonius Höckelmann / Arnulf Rainer, an exhibition of over 70 works by German artist Antonius Höckelmann (1937-2000) and Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929)....More »
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Issy Wood “Time Sensitive”
Michael Werner Gallery presents Issy Wood: Time Sensitive, an exhibition of new paintings by American-born, British artist and musician Issy Wood (b. 1993). Culling images from as diverse sources as...More »
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Per Kirkeby “Geological Messages: Paintings From 1965-2015”
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Danish artist Per Kirkeby (1938-2018). Taking the form of a small retrospective, the show focuses on the artist’s lifelong engagement with...More »
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Francis Picabia “Women: Works on Paper 1902-1950”
We should mistrust picturesque people we should mistrust old master painting we should even mistrust painting painted without mistrust -Francis Picabia (1879-1953) Michael Werner Gallery,...More »
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Markus Lüpertz “The Grace of the twentieth century is rendered visible by the dithyramb I have invented. Paintings from 1963-1976”
Markus Lüpertz: The Grace of the twentieth century is rendered visible by the dithyramb I have invented. The exhibition, titled with a proclamation the artist made in 1968, traces the development of Markus...More »
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Eugène Leroy “About Marina”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an exhibition of paintings by French artist Eugène Leroy (1910-2000). Living most of his life in Tourcoing, France, near the Belgian border, Leroy painted...More »
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Per Kirkeby “Overpaintings”
Michael Werner Gallery present Per Kirkeby: Overpaintings, an exhibition of übermalungen, or overpaintings, by the late Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 1938, d. 2018). An accomplished painter, sculptor,...More »
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Markus Lüpertz “Recent Paintings”
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Markus Lüpertz. Featuring paintings made over the last four years in Italy and Germany, the artist masterfully combines Southern and...More »
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Peter Saul “New Paintings”
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the eminent and iconic American painter Peter Saul (b. 1934). The exhibition is in two parts and presented in collaboration...More »
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James Lee Byars “The Milky Way”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents James Lee Byars: The Milky Way. The exhibition will feature Byars’s most ambitious two-dimensional work. Composed of 100 black silk paper stars, The Milky Way...More »
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Florian Krewer “Eyes on Fire”
Michael Werner Gallery and TRAMPS present Eyes on Fire, an exhibition of recent paintings by Florian Krewer. Krewer’s new paintings are feverish dreamscapes. Larger than life figures, carried by owls...More »
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Peter Saul “Murder In The Kitchen,Early Works”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents Peter Saul: Murder in the Kitchen, Early Works, featuring paintings and works on paper created from 1959 to 1966. The exhibition charts the artist’s development...More »
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Don Van Vliet “Parapliers The Willow Dipped, Paintings 1967-1997”
Michael Werner Gallery presents Parapliers the Willow Dipped, Paintings 1967-1997, an exhibition of works by Don Van Vliet. Selected by artist Spencer Sweeney, this is the first New York exhibition of...More »
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Per Kirkeby “Works On Paper, Works In Brick”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an exhibition of works on paper and brick sculptures by Danish artist Per Kirkeby. This is the first time many of these sculptures have been shown since their...More »
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Sigmar Polke “Objects Real And Imagined”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an exhibition of early sculptures and drawings by Sigmar Polke (1941-2010), one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century. Sigmar Polke - Objects: Real...More »
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James Lee Byars Exhibition
“Works of the highest grade have beauty in all parts, from the essential to the superfluous, and are therefore perfectly beautiful. Beauty in itself is nothing other than the perfection of every concept,...More »
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Markus Lüpertz “Dans L’Atelier”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents Markus Lüpertz: Dans l’Atelier. The exhibition was originally conceived for the Musée de la vie Romantique in Paris, where it was on view last year. Comprising...More »
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Jörg Immendorff “Questions from a Painter Who Reads”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York is pleased to present Jörg Immendorff: Questions from a Painter Who Reads, opening 21 February. This exhibition of paintings is a visual history of one of the most important...More »
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Pierre Puvis De Chavannes “Works On Paper And Paintings”
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of works by French painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898). Comprising loans from private and public collections, this exhibition presents a selection...More »
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Enrico David Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an exhibition of new works by Enrico David. David’s work encompasses painting, sculpture, textiles and installation with the act of drawing being key to his...More »
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“Vile Bodies” Exhibition
Michael Werner presents Vile Bodies, a group exhibition. Vile Bodies will be held simultaneously in both Michael Werner’s London and New York galleries. The exhibition will feature paintings, sculptures...More »
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A.R. Penck “Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier”
Michael Werner Gallery presents two exhibitions of works by A.R. Penck, one of the most important artists to emerge from Germany during the post-war period. Featuring several large-scale paintings and...More »
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Per Kirkeby “Paintings And Bronzes From The 1980S”
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of works from the 1980s by Per Kirkeby. With a selection of more than twenty paintings and bronze sculptures, this exhibition explores an important period...More »
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Georg Baselitz “1977-1992”
Michael Werner Gallery presents Georg Baselitz: 1977-1992, an exhibition of major paintings and works on paper by one of the most important German artists of the post-war period. Widely known for his...More »
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Peter Doig Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Peter Doig. Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959 and raised in Trinidad and Canada before moving to London in...More »
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Don Van Vliet “Works On Paper”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an exhibition of works on paper by Don Van Vliet. The exhibition comprises drawings and paintings on paper from the 1980s through 2000 and is the first solo showing...More »
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Markus Lüpertz “New Paintings”
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Markus Lüpertz. The exhibition opens alongside two simultaneous museum retrospectives - the artist’s first in the United States - presented...More »
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Jörg Immendorff “Lidl Works and Performances From the 60s”
Michael Werner Gallery presents Jörg Immendorff: LIDL Works and Performances from the 60s. Featuring both paintings and objects, the exhibition will provide viewers with an opportunity to see a rarely-exhibited...More »
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Hurvin Anderson “Foreign Body”
Michael Werner Gallery presents Foreign Body, an exhibition of new paintings by Hurvin Anderson. This is Anderson’s second solo show with the gallery. Hurvin Anderson’s paintings depict places where...More »
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Aaron Curry “Headspace”
Michael Werner Gallery presents Headspace, an exhibition of new paintings by Aaron Curry (b. 1972). This is the artist’s first exhibition devoted to paintings in New York. Drawing on late-20th century...More »
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A.R. Penck “Early Works”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an exhibition of early works by German artist A.R. Penck. Featuring important paintings and sculptures created in Dresden in the 1960s and early 1970s, the exhibition...More »
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Allen Jones “A Retrospective”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an historical survey exhibition of works by Allen Jones. Organized by Sir Norman Rosenthal, the exhibition includes paintings and sculptures from the 1960s to...More »
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Marcel Broodthaers “Écriture”
Michael Werner Gallery presents Marcel Broodthaers: Écriture, an exhibition of major works by one of the most influential artists of the post-war period. The exhibition brings particular consideration...More »
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Peter Doig Exhibition
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Gianni Piacentino “Works 1965-2013”
Michael Werner Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Italian artist Gianni Piacentino. The exhibition will feature a consistent body of work, following the development of Piacentino’s artistic career over...More »
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James Lee Byars “The Figure of Death and The Moon Column”
For summer, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, present The Figure of Death and The Moon Column, an exhibition of sculptures by James Lee Byars. This exhibition is one of three James Lee Byars shows simultaneously...More »
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Sigmar Polke “Silver Paintings”
Michael Werner Gallery, New York, announces an exhibition of Sigmar Polke’s Silver Paintings. This presentation is the first time since their debut, in 1990, that the Silver Paintings have been exhibited....More »
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A.R. Penck “Between Light and Shadow”
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by A.R. Penck. Between Light and Shadow brings together an entirely new group of works by one of the preeminent German artists of the Post-War...More »
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Enrico David Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery announces an exhibition of new works by Enrico David. With a primary focus on sculpture, this is the artist’s second exhibition at the New York gallery. Whether working in sculpture...More »
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Jörg Immendorff “Café Deutschland”
Michael Werner Gallerypresents an exhibition of Café Deutschland paintings by Jörg Immendorff. This is a major exhibition of important works by the artist and is the first substantial showing of Café Deutschland...More »
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James Lee Byars “Is Is and Other Works”
Over a career spanning four decades James Lee Byars produced an exceptionally diverse body of work comprising highly refined objects, reductive performances and voluminous correspondence and ephemera....More »
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Sigmar Polke “Early Works on Paper”
Sigmar Polke is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential artists of the Post-War period. Throughout a career spanning five decades, Polke repeatedly questioned art history and the conventions...More »
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A.R. Penck “Felt Works 1972 - 1995”
Michael Werner Gallery presents A.R. Penck: Felt Works 1972 - 1995. This exhibition of the artist’s felt sculptures is the first to be presented outside of Europe, offering a rare opportunity to examine...More »
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Peter Doig “Early Works”
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of early works by Peter Doig. The exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of Doig’s formative works from the 1980s and includes several paintings and...More »
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“Tumescence” Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery presents Tumescence, a group exhibition featuring works by Peter Doig, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul and Michael Williams. Typically defined as an exaggerated physical condition of enlargement...More »
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Elizabeth Peyton "Klara 13 Pictures"
Michael Werner Gallery presents Klara 13 Pictures, an exhibition of works by Elizabeth Peyton. Elizabeth Peyton is a painter, notably of portraiture and still-life. Her works seek to explore individuality,...More »
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Markus Lüpertz "Bozzetti for Hercules"
Michael Werner Gallery presents Bozzetti for Hercules, an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by German artist Markus Lüpertz. Originally exhibited from 2010-2011 at the LehmbruckMuseum in Duisburg,...More »
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck Exhibition
The first major Wilhelm Lehmbruck exhibition in the U.S. in more than two decades has reconfirmed his importance as one of the most progressive sculptors of the early 20th century. In fact, it leaves one...More »
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A.R. Penck Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by A.R. Penck. This is the gallery's first presentation of new works by the artist since his New System Paintings were exhibited here in 2009. After...More »
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Eugene Leroy "Nudes"
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings of nudes by Eugène Leroy (1910-2000). Through more than seven decades of devotion to painting Eugène Leroy remained passionately committed...More »
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Ernst Wilhelm Nay Exhibition
Michael Werner and Mary Boone Galleries 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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James Lee Byars "The Monument to Cleopatra"
For summer, Michael Werner Gallery presents "The Monument to Cleopatra", an exhibition of works by James Lee Byars. The exhibition features a major gilded sculpture, "The Monument to Cleopatra", shown...More »
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Aaron Curry "Buzz Kill"
Michael Werner Gallery presents "Buzz Kill", an exhibition of new works by Aaron Curry. Buzz Kill is Aaron Curry's second exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery, New York, and his most ambitious exhibition...More »
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Enrico David "Nerve Ending"
Michael Werner Gallery presents "Nerve Ending", an exhibition of new works by Enrico David. Widely exhibited in Europe, David's works are rarely seen in the United States. Nerve Ending is the artist's...More »
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919). The first major Lehmbruck exhibition in the United States in more than two decades, Wilhelm Lehmbruck provides a...More »
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Francis Picabia "Late Paintings"
Michael Werner presents an exhibition of late paintings by Francis Picabia (1879-1953). The exhibition will focus on the mid-1930s through the 1940s and beyond, a time when Picabia experimented not only...More »
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Per Kirkeby "Paintings"
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 1938). The artist's recent paintings explore relationships between nature and abstraction, returning to landscape...More »
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"Flowers for Summer" Exhibition
For summer, Michael Werner Gallery presents a group exhibition of flowers. With painting and sculpture, the artists in "Flowers for Summer" engage the genres of still life, landscape and abstraction to...More »
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Georg Baselitz "The Early Sixties"
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of important paintings and works on paper from the Nineteen Sixties by Georg Baselitz. Georg Baselitz is perhaps best known for his paintings of inverted...More »
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Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern "Barefoot Prophet to Avant-Garde Artist"
Michael Werner Gallery announces the first major exhibition in the United States of works by Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, "From Barefoot Prophet to Avant-Garde Artist". The exhibition includes over...More »
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Hurvin Anderson "Subtitles"
Michael Werner Gallery presents "Subtitles," an exhibition of new works by London-based artist Hurvin Anderson. Hurvin Anderson's paintings depict landscapes where memory and history converge. He paints...More »
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Markus Lüpertz "Pastoral Thoughts"
Renowned German artist Markus Lüpertz presents a series of new works in the gallery. The artists paintings, sculptures and drawings were the subject of a major retrospective presented last year at Kunst-...More »
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Marcel Broodthaers Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of major works by Marcel Broodthaers, one of the most important artists of the last century. Born in Brussels in 1924, Broodthaers began writing poetry...More »
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"Summer Reading" Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery presents "Summer Reading", an exhibition of rarely seen artists' books published by the gallery over the last three decades. This historical exhibition includes a selection of prints...More »
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Thomas Houseago "The Moon and The Stars and The Sun"
Michael Werner gallery presents The Moon and the Stars and the Sun, an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles-based artist Thomas Houseago. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City....More »
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Félix Vallotton Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (Lausanne, 1865 – Paris, 1925). The exhibition features portraits of women, primarily nudes, and is the first...More »
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Jörg Immendorff "Maoist Paintings - The Early Seventies"
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of Jörg Immendorff’s Maoist Paintings from the early nineteen seventies. This historical exhibition is a rare occasion to see an important body of work by...More »
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A.R. Penck "New System Paintings"
A.R. Penck’s new System Paintings demonstrate the artist’s continued exploration of social structures and systems, extending a complex pictorial language the artist first developed in the 1960s. His earliest...More »
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James Lee Byars "Golddust Is My Ex-Libris"
For summer, Michael Werner Gallery presents GOLDDUST IS MY EX-LIBRIS. This exhibition of works by James Lee Byars includes a major gilded work, as well as works on paper, in which gold is the medium for...More »
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Sigmar Polke "Lens Paintings"
Michael Werner Gallery presents Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings, an exhibition of extraordinary new works from an artist whose career is characterized by over 40 years of radical innovation in painting. ...More »
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"The Colour Out of Space" Exhibition
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Peter Doig Exhibition
Gavin Brown's enterprise and Michael Werner Gallery announce a joint exhibition of new works by Peter Doig. This is the artist's first solo exhibition of new paintings in the United States in nearly 10...More »
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"A.R. Penck: Paintings from the Eighties" Exhibition
This exhibition presents a group of works painted in the years immediately following the artist's emigration to the West. The works in A.R. Penck: Paintings from the Eighties show the artist's continued...More »
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"Series Drawings" Exhibition
An exhibition of serial works on paper by gallery artists.More »
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Frederick Kiesler Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of sculpture by Frederick Kiesler. Kiesler's most important sculpture, "David", 1965, forms the core of this exhibition, making it a rare opportunity to view...More »
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner "The Unexpected New"
This exhibition highlights Kirchner’s paintings made in Davos, Switzerland, beginning in the early 1920s, a period rarely examined in-depth in exhibitions devoted to Kirchner’s work. The Unexpected New...More »
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner "The Unexpected New"
This exhibition highlights Kirchner’s paintings made in Davos, Switzerland, beginning in the early 1920s, a period rarely examined in-depth in exhibitions devoted to Kirchner’s work. The Unexpected New...More »