Hirschl & Adler - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Hirschl & Adler. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“OUR SECRET FIRE Contemporary Artists and the Alchemical Tradition” Exhibition
One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth. - Axiom of Maria [Mary the Jewess (fl. 1st, 2nd or 3rd c.)] Transmutation is central to alchemy. This metamorphosis...More »
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Colin Hunt “So Much Remains to Be”
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness, the world remakes...More »
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Angela Fraleigh “Fluttering still”
Angela Fraleigh has spent her career exploring narrative art’s hierarchical patterns. Keenly observing how images and roles from Western art history intersect with contemporary representation and attitudes,...More »
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“Every Lie to Truth” Exhibition
At its best, trompe l’oeil subverts our expectations. When pushed beyond pure verisimilitude, it forces us to shift our perspective both intellectually and physically. Every Lie to Truth brings together...More »
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Frederick Brosen “Recent Watercolor Paintings”
From the Upper West Side to SOHO and out to Coney Island, Frederick Brosen paints the honest and over-looked splendor of New York City’s rainy street corners and gritty façades. More »
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John Moore “After the Rain”
Hirschl & Adler Modern presents After the Rain, a solo exhibition of thirteen recent paintings by John Moore. With these works, the artist reveals the vestiges of industry around his adopted-home state...More »
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Honoré Sharrer “Claws Sheathed in Velvet”
In today’s politically tense atmosphere, fueled by revelations of corruption, sexual misbehavior, class inequality, simmering racism, and Church reckonings, Honoré Sharrer is having a moment. Dismissed...More »
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Andy Mister “On a Classic Nitrogen Afternoon”
In “The Wild Kindness,” David Berman sings of loneliness amidst the ephemeral beauty of nature. The song’s emphasis on singularity and time are reflected in the drawings of Andy Mister. Acknowledging these...More »
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Robert Minervini Exhibition
Hirschl & Adler Modern presents New Monuments, a solo exhibition of twelve recent paintings by Oakland-based artist Robert Minervini. This is the artist’s first show with Hirschl & Adler Modern...More »
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“The Masters: Art Students League Teachers and Their Students” Exhibition
A “subway series” painting by Mark Rothko; the fourteen Stations of the Cross by George Tooker; the bronze sculpture, Titanic Memorial, by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; and Modiste, a full-length portrait...More »
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David Ligare “Still Life”
For over forty years, David Ligare has been making paintings that conceptually link ancient Greek philosophy to contemporary social needs. Through established painting tropes like the figure and the landscape,...More »
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“Vis-à-Vis” Exhibition
Hirschl & Adler presents its summer exhibition, Vis-à-Vis. This exhibition features paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the 19th century to the present from a selection of 33 artists. Vis-à-Vis...More »
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Winold Reiss “will not be classified”
Even during his lifetime, and at the height of his career, the extraordinarily successful German-American artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953) defied categorization. Was he a fine artist or a designer, illustrator...More »
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“Change of A Dress” Exhibition
Hirschl & Adler Galleries presents Change of A Dress. Our play on words celebrates Hirschl & Adler’s imminent “change of address” in early 2018. Our exhibition explores themes of status as well...More »
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“License to Deceive” Exhibition
Hirschl & Adler Galleries presents its summer gallery exhibition, License to Deceive. With “alternative facts” dominating today’s news, this exhibition explores how trickery has captivated artists...More »
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Andy Mister “Vanishing Point”
This exhibition of recent drawings by Andy Mister (b. 1979) continues his exploration of the boundary between mechanical and manual reproduction. Working with images appropriated from vintage photographs...More »
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María Elena González “Tempo”
In Tempo, Cuban-American artist María Elena González explores the translation between the acoustical and the physical. Riffing off of her celebrated “Tree Talk” series, González creates new work in wood...More »
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“Outside the Lines: American Abstraction in the 20th Century” Exhibition
The role of abstraction in 20th Century American art cannot be overstated. Generations of artists felt the gravitational pull of non-objectivity emanating from Europe. Its unstoppable appeal was not limited...More »
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Stuart Davis “Path to Abstraction”
Hirschl & Adler Galleries presents Stuart Davis: Path to Abstraction. The exhibition offers a rare view of Davis’s earlier foundational works including selections from his tough, gritty Hoboken series...More »
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“Shout for Tomorrow” Exhibition
Titled after a lyric lifted from The Jam’s “Going Underground,” Shout for Tomorrow echoes the song’s insistent urging to stay true to one’s beliefs and not get swept up in an overwhelming zeitgeist. This...More »
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John Moore “Twelve Days”
Hirschl & Adler Modern presents the most recent paintings by John Moore with this exhibition, the artist’s fourteenth with the gallery. The fifteen oil on canvas works in Twelve Days are an elegant...More »
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Frederick Brosen “Recent Watercolors: Rome & Florence”
Having spent an entire career painting New York City, Frederick Brosen is intimately aware of a city’s romance. The drama of his hometown’s skyline and the allure of its back alleys have long been celebrated...More »
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“An Architect’s Dream: The Magic Realist World of Thomas Fransioli” Exhibition
For nearly three decades, Hirschl & Adler Galleries has been quietly gathering works by the enigmatic Magic Realist artist Thomas Fransioli (1906–1997) in anticipation of organizing a retrospective...More »
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Elizabeth Turk “Tensions”
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Douglas Cooper “Viaducts & Neighborhoods”
In Viaducts & Neighborhoods, his debut solo exhibition with Hirschl & Adler Modern, Cooper surveys the New York City area and its bridges in 18 large-scale drawings. While a bridge offers Cooper...More »
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David Ligare “History”
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Martin Mull “Endgame”
In Endgame, Hirschl & Adler Modern’s first solo exhibition of Martin Mull’s work, the 14 oil paintings on display burn with an incisive edge. Distanced both critically and temporally, Mull interrogates...More »
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“Very Rich & Handsome” Exhibition
Very Rich & Handsome, American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts, is a multi-media survey exhibition of furniture, metalwork, silver, lighting, ceramics, and glass made in America or specifically for an...More »
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Andy Warhol “Bang! Andy Warhol, Early Pop Drawings 1952 – 1962”
Hirschl & Adler Modern presents Bang! Andy Warhol, Early Pop Drawings 1952 – 1962, with its accompanying catalogue of 24 full-color illustrations and an essay by David Hickey. Nearly 30 works, all...More »
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Larry Kagan “Steel and Shadow”
The artist’s process could be described paradoxically as both additive and reductive. Kagan attempts to “draw with light” by bending, twisting and welding steel rods benea th a single beam of light. The...More »
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Harold Reddicliffe “Recent Paintings”
Hirschl & Adler Modern presents the opening of Harold Reddicliffe: Recent Paintings. Reddicliffe’s second solo show at Hirschl & Adler Modern will feature more than twenty still lifes in oil. In...More »
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“Our American Life” Exhibition
Hirschl & Adler Galleries presents Our American Life, an exhibition of approximately fifty paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture from the nineteenth century to the present. Our American Life explores...More »
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Stone Roberts Exhibition
The show will include major examples of figure paintings, interior and street scenes, still lifes and genre pictures. Nearly a decade has passed since Roberts’ last major gallery exhibition in New York....More »
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Lily Cox-Richard “The Stand: Possessing Powers”
Contemporary artist Lily Cox-Richard channels the so-called “Father of American Sculpture,” Hiram Powers (1805-1873), through her own compellingly beautiful and ghostly plasters. Cox-Richard’s work displays...More »
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“about FACE” Exhibition
Comprised of fifty works, including paintings, works on paper, sculpture and decorative arts, about FACE celebrates the depiction of the human face in a multitude of forms. The exhibition, which includes...More »
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John Sideli “Assemblages”
New York-born sculptor John Sideli’s artistic path began auspiciously in 1968, when he and his wife served as caretakers for the Roxbury, Connecticut, property of the famed American sculptor, Alexander...More »
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“Duets: Art in Conversation” Exhibition
An exhibition of approximately fifty paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture from the eighteenth-century to the present. Duets offers a fresh perspective by juxtaposing traditional eighteenth and nineteenth-century...More »
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Susan Van Campen “New Watercolors”
Both artist and naturalist, Susan Van Campen draws her inspiration from the world out of doors – from the sloping fields unfolding outside her window and from the shapes and shades of the flowers that...More »
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John Moore "Portals"
The artist’s 13th solo show with the gallery in the 30 years that we have represented him is comprised of 12 new oil paintings, including several large-scale works ranging in size from 70 x 60 inches to...More »
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"Talisman of the Ward: The Album of Drawings by Edward Deeds" Exhibition
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Randall Exon "New Paintings"
The artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery will include over twenty new works in oil and will feature examples of landscape, still life, interior, and figure painting. Randall Exon paints...More »
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Frederick Brosen "New Watercolors"
The artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery will include nearly 20 new cityscapes in watercolor, featuring views of the dynamic streets and magnificent architecture of New York and Paris. Ranging...More »
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Barbara Kassel "New Paintings"
Barbara Kassel describes her paintings as celebrations of the memorable moments in her life, and in them, she reveals much about her particular present. Kassel paints in the places where she lives, and...More »
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David Ligare "New Paintings"
It has been said that the Roman poet Virgil invented the evening because he used it to such lasting effect in his pastoral poems, The Eclogues. This threshold between day and night is often referred to...More »
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Elizabeth Turk "Cages"
Hirschl & Adler Modern proudly presents Elizabeth Turk: Cages which opens on Thursday, March 1, 2012. The artist’s third solo show with Hirschl & Adler Modern will feature more than twenty painstakingly...More »
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"The World of Duncan Phyfe" Exhibition
Hirschl & Adler presents ""The World of Duncan Phyfe: the Arts of New York, 1800-1847".More »
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Marc Trujillo Exhibition
The artist’s first solo venture with the gallery will feature a new series of works in oil depicting Target interiors, Costco parking lots, fast-food restaurants, and reflective building fronts—places...More »
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"The Paintings of Richard Lonsdale-Hands (1913-1969)" Exhibition
Richard Lonsdale-Hands (1913-1969) was a gifted and highly successful London-based industrial designer. At the age of twenty-four, he founded Richard Lonsdale-Hands Associates. Within a decade he was a...More »
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Amy Weiskopf "Recent Paintings"
This exhibition, the artist’s second solo venture with the gallery, will include over fifteen works in oil, each displaying Weiskopf’s unique and innovative interpretation of the still life. Though Weiskopf...More »
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"Masterworks" Exhibition
In February of this year, Hirschl & Adler moved from a landmark townhouse on East 70th Street, where it had been housed for 33 years, to expanded quarters in The Crown Building, at the world-renowned...More »
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"Bouguereau & His Milieu" Exhibition
An exhibition in honor of the publication of the catalogue raisonné "William Bouguereau: His Life and Works" by Damien Bartoli with Frederick Ross. [Image: William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) "Baigneuse...More »
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John Moore "Elements"
Elements that comprise these paintings were taken from on-site notations, drawings, photographs, and other source materials in 2009 and 2010. The paintings are composites rather than accurate depictions...More »
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Frederick Brosen "Recent Watercolors"
Whether celebrating the streets of Paris or revisiting favorite locations in his native New York, Brosen’s luminous paintings reveal the city as a place of history as well as new beginnings. From the perspective...More »
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"We ♥ New York" Exhibition
For centuries New York State has inspired artists to paint her portrait from her most humble farmsteads to her most spectacular waterfalls. We ♥ New York gathers together almost forty works dating from...More »
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"Summer Selections" Exhibition
[Image: Edmund Tarbell "My Wife, Emeline, in a Garden" (about 1890) Oil on canvas, 28 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.]More »
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Alexander Creswell "AquaTerra"
Hirschl & Adler Modern announces the opening of Alexander Creswell: Aqua Terra on Thursday, March 25, 2010. The artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery will feature more than 30 new watercolors,...More »
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Marc Dennis "Nature Morte"
The artist’s second solo exhibition at Hirschl & Adler Modern will feature more than sixteen new works in oil, ranging in size from 9 x 11 inches to 40 x 60 inches. Fresh and unconventional, the still...More »
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"Take Five: Hirschl & Adler Modern Welcomes Five New Artists" Exhibition
This group show welcomes Jeanne Duval, F. Scott Hess, David Ligare, Jeffrey Ripple, and Marc Trujillo into the gallery's stable of contemporary representational painters. After several successful years...More »
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"Modeling Grace: Two Centuries of American Sculpture" Exhibition
Long considered the handmaiden to painting, sculpture enjoyed a rapid rise to prominence in America early in the 19th century. Thomas Crawford, Hiram Powers, and other aspiring American stone carvers made...More »
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Randall Exon "Currents"
Hirschl & Adler Modern announces the opening of Randall Exon: Currents. The artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery will include more than twenty landscapes, interiors and still lifes in oil,...More »
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Harold Reddicliffe "New Paintings"
For Reddicliffe, painting is as much about the act of looking—and seeing—as it is about the process of creating a work of art. He states that his paintings “explore the transformation that occurs when...More »
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"Summer Selections: 1800 to the Present" Exhibition
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John Morra Exhibition
John Morra has become an eminent figure in the world of contemporary American realism, a field that has established a considerable following among both private collectors and museums across the country. ...More »
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Jimmy Sanders Exhibition
These new works demonstrate the artist’s continued commitment to the classical ideals of draftsmanship, technique and skill. Working directly from life, Sanders begins each new painting by creating a series...More »
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"Thirteen Miles From Paradise" Exhibition
Moore’s unique brand of realism combines the formalism of the Precisionists with a sociological undercurrent. More »
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"Peter Poskas" Exhibition
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"Coney Island" Exhibition
As you step off the elevated D train and walk across Surf Avenue, the sea air and the smell of grilling franks from Nathan’s Famous reminds you there is no place like Coney Island. For over a century,...More »
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"Coming Attractions: Poster Paintings for the Cinema" Exhibition
Hirschl & Adler Galleries presents Coming Attractions: Poster Paintings for the Cinema by Batiste Madalena. Like the MoMA show, the Hirschl & Adler exhibition draws on a singular collection of...More »
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Elizabeth Turk Exhibition
Hirschl & Adler Modern presents Elizabeth Turk: Recent Sculpture. The artist’s second solo show with Hirschl & Adler Modern will feature nearly twenty new hand-carved sculptures in marble. The...More »
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"Summer Selections" Exhibition
A Selection of fine and decorative arts from our inventory including: American Paintings and Sculpture, European Paintings, American Master Prints, Contemporary Realism, American Neo-Classical Furniture...More »
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Jacob Collins "Rediscovering the American Landscape: The Eastholm Project"
Hirschl & Adler Modern presents Jacob Collins – Rediscovering the American Landscape: The Eastholm Project. The exhibition features more than forty related works created during this two-year project,...More »
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"Celebrating Women Artists, For Women's History Month" Exhibition