Driscoll Babcock Galleries - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Driscoll Babcock Galleries. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Judith Lauand “Brazilian Concrete Abstractions”
Curated by Dr. Aliza Edelman “In each picture we create a problem and the picture is the solution.” - Judith Lauand DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Judith Lauand: Brazilian Concrete Abstractions,...More »
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Abe Ajay “Alphabet”
“Ajay worked throughout his life to grow art on a fresh shoot from tradition’s roots.” - Lee Hall (1934-2017) DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents ABE AJAY: ALPHABET. Ajay (1919-1998) was an artist...More »
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Luigi Terruso “Wonder Wheel”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents LUIGI TERRUSO: WONDER WHEEL, a selection of kaleidoscopic paintings in which imagery is a momentary stasis between the artist’s memory and imaginings. Terruso’s whimsical...More »
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Harriet Bart “Strong Silent Type”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents HARRIET BART: STRONG SILENT TYPE, an installation in blackened steel, shaded paper, mirrored chrome, and dark cloth exploring the myriad ways to be seen and to see one’s...More »
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“Sight and Site Lines: American Works on Paper 1790-1890” Exhibition
“…attend closely to your drawing as you know it is the very essence of your art.” John W. Casilear to John F. Kensett, 9 October 1832 DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents SIGHT AND SITE LINES: American...More »
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“Aspects of Gray” Exhibition
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents ASPECTS OF GRAY, a selection of contemporary achromatic works by six artists – Abe Ajay, Harriet Bart, Wafaa Bilal, Ross Bleckner, Marylyn Dintenfass, and Jenny Morgan....More »
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Don Nice “The Presence of Emblems”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Don Nice: The Presence of Emblems, a selection of works from the master chronicler of American popular culture objects. Nice’s new single image paintings include images...More »
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Paul Gagner, Karen Lederer and Rachel Schmidhofer “A Series of Moves”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents A Series of Moves, a selection of young New York-based artists – Paul Gagner, Karen Lederer, and Rachel Schmidhofer – who explore various realities of art making and...More »
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“The Shock of the Old: Epic Visions in 19th Century American Art” Exhibition
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents The Shock of the Old: Epic Visions in 19th Century American Art, a provocative riff on Robert Hughes’ 1980 television series and book The Shock of the New which explored...More »
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“The Lost Generation: Paintings”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents The Lost Generation: Paintings, a selection of American works hallmarking the decade of the 1920’s when the United States and Europe were reeling in the aftermath of...More »
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Marsden Hartley “The Berlin Prints”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Marsden Hartley: The Berlin Prints, which brings together the only extant complete set of Harley’s 1923 series of fourteen still-life lithographs. Concurrently, Gail...More »
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E. Ambrose Webster “The Primacy of Color”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents E. Ambrose Webster: The Primacy of Color, a selection of exceptional works by this major American modernist, whose landscape paintings remain startlingly innovative...More »
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Margaret Bowland “Power”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Margaret Bowland: Power, the artist’s third New York Solo exhibition. The exhibition features 8 new paintings, which marry canonical imagery with contemporary references...More »
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Edwin Dickinson “Graphic Enigmas”
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Marylyn Dintenfass “Oculus”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Oculus, the latest body of paintings on canvas and paper by Marylyn Dintenfass. This is the artist’s ninth one-person show in New York City, and her fifth at Driscoll...More »
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Brian Willmont “Vanitas”
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Secret Identities “Superheroes and Selfhood”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Secret Identities: Superheroes and Selfhood, a group exhibition featuring artists whose works address how identity is experienced, constructed and performed. Taking...More »
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Jenny Morgan “All We Have is Now”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Jenny Morgan: All We Have is Now the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, and an investigation of darkly charged psychological works in intense hues. This...More »
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Alan Gussow “Cold Elation”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Alan Gussow: Cold Elation – works from the 1970s, a pivotal moment in the formal development of Gussow’s nearly 50 year career. Embracing the two dimensional surface...More »
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Wafaa Bilal “Lovely Pink”
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Wafaa Bilal: Lovely Pink, an installation of 12 unique sculptures which, in the wake of ISIS’s destruction of Iraqi cultural heritage, resonates with the destabilization...More »
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Marsden Hartley and Charles Kuntz “Art is Long, Life is Short”
This exhibition explores the influence and originality of two artists whose paths crossed in Aix-en-Provence between 1925 and 1928: Marsden Hartley, who was already an internationally known artist and...More »
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Judith Lauand “Brazilian Modernist 1950s-2000s”
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Jérôme Lagarrigue “Visible Man”
Visible Man, Jérôme Lagarrigue’s solo exhibition and first series of paintings documenting the model-muse, and albino African American male, Shaun Ross. Like its title, the exhibition, while evoking Ralph...More »
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“In Between Days” Exhibition
Jennifer Packer’s lyrical paintings challenge the divisions between realism and abstraction. As her figures are broken down, foreground merges into background and figures merge into space, forcing the...More »
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Seymour Lipton “Structural Metaphors, 1951-1964”
During the 50s and 60s, Lipton established himself as a central figure of the postwar American avant-garde, and he was the lead American artist at the 29th Venice Biennale, where he gained international...More »
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“Corpus Americus” Exhibition
Corpus Americus, an exhibition of contemporary American art that explores the question, “what does it mean to be an American today?” The exhibition’s title is derived from the Latin phrase Habeas Corpus,...More »
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Jenny Morgan “How To Find A Ghost”
Jenny Morgan’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new body of work, Morgan pushes her transcendent figurative paintings to a larger scale, the pure magnitude of which amplifies the psychological...More »
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Harriet Bart “Locus”
A renowned conceptual artist, Bart identifies her tools as the “narrative power of objects, the theatre of installation, and the intimacy of the artist’s book.” In Locus, bronze, coal, and found objects...More »
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“Contained Conflict” Exhibition
Contained Conflict, a group exhibition featuring works whose hauntingly beautiful exteriors belie the fact that just below the surface there exists discord and dissension. The artists in the exhibition...More »
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“Refuge and Remembrance: Landscape Painting in the Civil War Era” Exhibiition
Refuge and Remembrance: Landscape Painting in the Civil War Era, an exhibition mounted from the gallery’s holdings of masterwork Hudson River School paintings. As the nation was torn in two, painters of...More »
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Alan Gussow "Interrupted Spring"
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Interrupted Spring, an exhibition of oil paintings and works on paper by Alan Gussow (1931-1997), which captures the energy of natural environment through a lively synthesis...More »
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Margaret Bowland "Disturbing The Peace"
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"Suspended Forms: American Modernism 1908-1928"
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Marylyn Dintenfass Exhibition
A focus of the show is the Angel Trumpet flower, a ravishing and singular beauty of nature whose exquisite deadliness is iconic. Dintenfass’ vibrant abstractions of the Angel Trumpet’s shapes and forms...More »
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"This Is How We Do It" Exhibition
Prominent for its scholarship of American masterworks, the Galleries’ inaugural Chelsea exhibition, This is How We Do It, heralds both the inspired visions of important classic artists of the past and...More »
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"Face to Face" Exhibition
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"The American Hand: Sculpture from Three Centuries" Exhibition
This exhibition is carefully curated from the gallery's holdings and includes works by such notable masters as Hiram Powers, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, William Zorach, Seymour Lipton and Dorothy Dehner. "Stories...More »
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"Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect" Exhibition
"Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect"— the gallery’s 6th solo exhibition dedicated to the artist— surveys Dickinson’s paintings from 1911 to 1955, exploring his stylistic innovations from the 1920s through the...More »
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Marylyn Dintenfass "Souped Up/Tricked Out"
The gallery presents Marylyn Dintenfass’ solo exhibition, a visceral, visual series of oil paintings inspired by a complex love affair with automobiles. Dintenfass is known for her use of lush color...More »
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Robert Schwartz Exhibition
Robert Schwartz provides a portal into a world of emerging gay culture and social upheaval of the 1960s, seeking to expose truths about the human condition by depicting people involved in curious behaviors...More »
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"Then & Now" Exhibition
[Image: Kenyon Cox "Hope and Memory" (1900) Oil on canvas 42 x 26.25 in.] More »
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Margaret Bowland "Excerpts from the Great American Songbook"
Margaret Bowland's "Excerpts from the Great American Songbook" explores problematic and provocative issues of race, gender, beauty and individuality in contemporary social thought. She evokes great old...More »
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Harriet Bart "Drawn in Smoke"
March 25, 2011 marks the centenary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, one of the most infamous and deadly disasters of the American Industrial Revolution. Records indicate that 146 garment workers,...More »
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"Giants: American Modernist Masters" Exhibition
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Marylyn Dintenfass "Parallel Park"
Marylyn Dintenfass’ newest installation, "Parallel Park," is a site-specific 30,000 square foot façade composed of 23 individual panels, each 33 feet high by 23 feet wide, for the Lee County Justice Center...More »
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"From the Light of Distant Skies: A Selection of 19th Century American Paintings" Exhibition
[Image: Edward Moran "Niagara Falls" (c. 1865-75) Oil on canvas 44.25 x 36.25 in.]More »
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"African Americans: Seeing and Seen, 1766–1916" Exhibition
Babcock Galleries presents "African Americans: Seeing and Seen, 1766 – 1916," an incisive overview of refined and controversial fine art and popular culture images of African Americans as artists and subjects....More »
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"200 Years of American Art: 1787-1987" Exhibition
[Image: Alfred Maurer "Vase of Flowers" (1926) Oil on paper mounted on canvas 29.75 x 19.75 in.]More »
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Alan Gussow "A Painter's Nature"
A comprehensive exhibition of the work of Alan Gussow (1931-1997) in conjunction with the publication of the first monograph of the artist’s work by Martica Sawin, "Alan Gussow--A Painter’s Nature." In...More »
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"An Evening with Marylyn Dintenfass and Irving Sandler" Talk
Renowned art critic Irving Sandler will interview artist Marylyn Dintenfass about her current exhibition, "Good & Plenty Juicy." The invited audience will have the opportunity to hear Dintenfass discuss...More »
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Marylyn Dintenfass "Good & Plenty Juicy"
"Good & Plenty Juicy" showcases Dintenfass' recent work, which continues her longstanding exploration of the structural grid, lush complex color, and vigorous gestural brushwork. Dintenfass' new oils...More »
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"American Paper: 1865-1965" Exhibition
[Image: Joseph Pennell "Street Scene, New Orleans" (1882) Ink on paper 7.4 x 14.9 in.]More »