George Adams Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for George Adams Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Arnaldo Roche Rabell “Dualidades”
The George Adams Gallery will begin 2023 with an exhibition of paintings by the late Puerto Rican artist Arnaldo Roche Rabell (1955-2018), whom the gallery represented for many years, beginning in 1990....More »
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Katherine Sherwood “Pandemic Madonnas and Other Views from the Garden”
Katherine Sherwood was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1952. She received a BA from the University of California, Davis, in 1975, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979. She taught at...More »
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Elmer Bischoff and Tom Burckhardt “A Dialogue”
The George Adams Gallery is pleased to present, Bischoff/Burckhardt: A Dialogue, an exhibition of abstract paintings from 1974-1984 by the influential Bay-Area artist Elmer Bischoff, alongside recent...More »
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“Shapeshifters” Exhibition
George Adams Gallery presents paintings, drawings, sculpture and textiles by Craig Calderwood, Terri Friedman, Cathy Lu and Cate White. Despite the range and variety of their respective media, all four...More »
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H. C. Westermann “Le Bandeur”
To inaugurate George Adams Gallery’s new Tribeca space, we are pleased to present drawings, prints and illustrated letters by H. C. Westermann. The title of the exhibition, “H.C Westermann: Le Bandeur,”...More »
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Joan Brown “Drawn from Life Works on Paper, 1970-1976”
The George Adams Gallery is pleased to present Joan Brown: Drawn From Life, an exhibition of works on paper spanning the years 1970 to 1976. Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Brown’s death, on October...More »
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Luis Cruz Azaceta “Personal Velocity: 40 Years of Painting”
The George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Luis Cruz Azaceta, Personal Velocity: 40 Years of Painting, his sixteenth at the gallery since 1975. For over four decades,...More »
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Andrew Lenaghan “Places Have Their Moments”
The George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Andrew Lenaghan, his fourteenth solo presentation with the gallery since 1995. Titled Places Have Their Moments, the exhibition features...More »
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Katherine Sherwood “In the Yelling Clinic: 2010-2019”
The George Adams Gallery presents San Francisco-based artist Katherine Sherwood’s first exhibition with the gallery and her New York solo debut. Titled In the Yelling Clinic: 2010-2019, the exhibition...More »
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Robert Arneson “The Anti-War Works: 1982-1986”
To open the fall season, the George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of drawings by Robert Arneson on the theme of nuclear war. Part of a broader series of anti-war works dating from 1982 to 1986,...More »
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“Body/Object” Exhibition
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Amer Kobaslija “Florida Diaries”
The George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Amer Kobaslija, his eighth with the gallery since 2006. Titled ‘Florida Diaries,’ it represents the culmination of a multi-year exploration...More »
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Jeremy Anderson “Between, Beyond: 1953-64”
The George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of sculptures and related drawings by California artist Jeremy Anderson (1921-1982), in what will be his first solo exhibition in New York since 1954. The...More »
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Elmer Bischoff “Studies from Life”
To coincide with Temporal, in the side gallery, will be a selection of heretofore unseen figure studies by Elmer Bischoff, dating from 1952-1969. Executed in ink or graphite and taken from sketchbooks,...More »
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Chris Ballantyne “Temporal: Recent Paintings and Watercolors”
To start off the new year, the George Adams Gallery will present our first exhibition of paintings and works on paper by New York artist Chris Ballantyne. The installation will include recent paintings...More »
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“30 Years: Frumkin/Adams” Exhibition
Jeremy Anderson, Robert Arneson, Chester Arnold, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Chris Ballantyne, Robert Barnes, James Barsness, Jack Beal, William Beckman, Jose Bedia, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, Yoan Capote, Enrique...More »
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Luis Cruz Azaceta “Paintings and Drawings: 1984 - 1989”
To start off the fall season, George Adams Gallery will present a survey of paintings and drawings by Luis Cruz Azaceta dating from 1984-89, arguably some of the artist’s most forceful imagery. In the...More »
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Tony May “Paintings, Objects and Devices”
George Adams Gallery presents a survey of paintings and constructions by California-based conceptual artist Tony May. As May’s first solo exhibition in New York, it will include examples from his entire...More »
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Enrique Chagoya “Then and Now: Aliens Sans Frontières”
The George Adams Gallery presents Then and Now: Aliens Sans Frontières an exhibition of new work by Enrique Chagoya featuring a major new codex along with several paintings and prints responding to recent...More »
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Gregory Gillespie “Mind/Body/Spiri”
“None of us know much of the fundamentals of mind/body/spirit…where are the boundaries between self, thought, sensation, present, past, future?” – Gregory Gillespie, 1995 George Adams Gallery presents...More »
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“A New Gesture: Elmer Bischoff, 1946-50” Exhibition
To begin 2018, we will mount an exhibition of early paintings by Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991), tracing his development from the mid-1940s, to the years preceding his transition to figurative painting in...More »
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Roy De Forest Exhibition
During November and December the George Adams Gallery will present two paintings and a selection of works on paper by Roy De Forest in our side gallery. The exhibition includes work from 1962-1991 and...More »
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Joan Brown Exhibition
The George Adams Gallery begins the fall season with an exhibition of paintings by Joan Brown (1938-1990). Covering the years 1961 to 1983, this is a wide-ranging presentation including several large canvases...More »
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Robert Arneson & William T Wiley Exhibition
During the month of June the George Adams Gallery will present an exhibition of rarely seen works from the 1960’s by Robert Arneson and William T. Wiley. The exhibition will feature surrealist and proto-Funk...More »
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“Four Realists Beal, Gillespie, Leslie, Valerio” Exhibition
George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of four large-scale, portrait paintings by Jack Beal, Gregory Gillespie, Alfred Leslie, and James Valerio. All four paintings on view are portraits of other...More »
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“Masterclass: a survey of work from the twentieth century” Exhibition
George Adams Gallery and Pavel Zoubok Gallery jointly present, ‘Masterclass’, an exhibition drawing on artists of the 20th century who, although largely outside of the mainstream during their lives, nonetheless...More »
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“Flat Earth Conspiracy” Exhibition
The George Adams Gallery presents a group exhibition ‘Flat Earth Conspiracy,’ featuring work by Kathryn Goshorn, Lino Lago, Paul Rouphail and Alexi Worth, which address the ‘conspiracy’ of illusion in...More »
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Andrew Lenaghan Exhibition
George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of new works on paper and paintings by Andrew Lenaghan. The exhibition, the artist’s thirteenth with the gallery, will include recent twelve-inch diameter tondo...More »
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“Differing Views” Exhibition
George Adams Gallery presents “Differing Views,” a group exhibition featuring the work of five notable realist painters: Rackstraw Downes, Richard Estes, Yvonne Jacquette, Andrew Lenaghan, and Rod Penner....More »
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“Is / Isn’t: Art on the Verge of Abstraction” Exhibition
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Diane Edison “Recent Portrait Drawings”
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Amer Kobaslija “Places, Spaces; a Survey of Paintings 2005-2015”
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Elmer Bischoff “Figurative Paintings”
The GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY presents an exhibition of figurative paintings by ELMER BISCHOFF (American, 1916-1991). The exhibition, which features 11 paintings made between 1954 and 1972, will be on view...More »
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Joan Brown “Major Paintings from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s”
During the month of April the George Adams Gallery mounts an exhibition of paintings by Joan Brown (1938-1990). There are nine paintings on view and includes examples of some of her best-known images from...More »
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Red Grooms Exhibition
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Jack Beal “Hard Edge Paintings, 1968-1972”
In January and February the George Adams Gallery will show a selection of paintings byJack Beal dating from 1968 to 1972, a four year stretch of time that was a fertile and searching period for the artist....More »
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Peter Dean “Paintings - 1975 to 1989”
In November and December George Adams Gallery shows a group of paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Peter Dean (1934-1993). The exhibition will include 7 large-scale works in the artist’s rich, thick,...More »
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“Left Coast, Third Coast” Exhibition
The connection between the artists from these two regions is neither casual nor accidental. Many of the Californians exhibited regularly in galleries in Chicago (for example, Arneson, Chagoya, Colescott,...More »
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“The Horse is in the Cart” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2014-07-01 - 2014-08-15
During July and August the George Adams Gallery will present in the Side Gallery an exhibition titled The Horse is in the Cart with works by Robert Arneson, Bruce Conner, Jane Dickson, Robert The, John...More »
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Ron Nagle and George Ohr “Look Closer, Look Again”
George Adams Gallery exhibits works by Ron Nagle (SF 1938 -) and George Ohr (1857-1918). The exhibition will consist of approximately ten unique ceramic sculptures by each artist, the Nagles dating from...More »
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Andrew Lenaghan “Around The House”
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Enrique Chagoya “The Thing Itself” & Kako Ueda “Mutaphiliac”
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Jack Beal “Paintings 1963 - 2011?
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Lesley Dill “Sculptures and Editioned Works, 1993-2013”
During the months of September and October the George Adams Gallery will exhibit a survey of works by Lesley Dill celebrating her 20-year association with the gallery The exhibition features 15 works in...More »
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“SEESCAPE” Exhibition
George Adams Gallery is pleased to announce its summer 2013 exhibition, SEESCAPE, organized with the gallery by independent curator Edward Boyer. The artists included are: Dozier Bell, William Bradford,...More »
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Peter Saul "Radical Figure: Paintings and Drawings from the 1960s and 1970s"
[Image: Peter Saul "Lake Tahoe" (1966) colored pencil, marker, gouache on museum board, 30 x 40 in.]More »
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Robert Arneson "Troublesome Subjects"
During February and March the George Adams Gallery presents a survey of works by Robert Arneson (1930-1992) in conjunction with the publication of a new monograph by Jonathan Fineberg, A Troublesome Subject:...More »
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Roy De Forest "A Simple Life"
During January and February, the George Adams Gallery presents in the Main Gallery, “A Simple Life,” an exhibition of small-scale paintings by Roy De Forest (1930-2007). The 11 paintings in the show, dating...More »
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Lino Lago "Ciao Bella"
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James Barsness "SURVEY OF PAINTINGS: 1996 - 2008"
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"Jack Beal, Alfred Leslie, and Philip Pearlstein and the Emergence of New Realism: Paintings and Drawings, 1960-1990" Exhibition
[Image: Philip Pearlstein "Male and Female Models on Bench" (1975) oil on canvas 58 5/8 x 76 3/4 in.]More »
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Lesley Dill "Faith & the Devil"
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Amer Kobaslija "One Hundred Views of Kesennuma”
George Adams Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Amer Kobaslija. The exhibition, “One Hundred Views of Kesennuma” (the title refers to the well-known series by Hokusai), was made in...More »
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Andrew Lenaghan "Recent Paintings"
George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of new smaller-scaled paintings by Andrew Lenaghan. The exhibition includes 19 cityscapes, landscapes, and interiors (with figures), all painted from life. In...More »
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Alfred Leslie "Figure Drawings, 1976 - 1983"
In the Drawing Gallery and concurrent with the Lenaghan exhibition is a show of five figure drawings by Alfred Leslie. The exhibition is comprised of four signature portraits in graphite pencil, including...More »
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Luis Cruz Azaceta "Watercolors and Drawings"
During November and December, the George Adams Gallery will exhibit 8 watercolors by Luis Cruz Azaceta. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1942, Azaceta moved with his family to New York City in 1960 and graduated...More »
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Alain Vaes "New Paintings"
George Adams Gallery presents Alain Vaes' second solo exhibition with the gallery. Included in the show are 7 new, large-scale paintings that expand on Vaes' earlier use of the repeating tile format. In...More »
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Joan Brown "Friends and Family, A Survey of Drawings, 1960-1990"
GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY presents an exhibition of 38 drawings by JOAN BROWN (1938 – 1990) that emphasizes the candid aspect of her work. The earliest drawing in the show dates from 1957 when Brown was still...More »
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"Circle of Friends" Exhibition
[Image: Roy DeForest "Diary of a Flapper" (1961) Oil and acrylic on canvas 84 x 61¼ in.] More »
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James Barsness "Short Stories"
[Image: James Barsness "St. Catherine in the Desert" (2010) Acrylic, gold leaf on paper mounted on canvas 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.]More »
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Lino Lago Exhibition
[Image: Lino Lago "Interior with Yellow Paint" (2011) Oil on canvas 72 x 72 in.]More »
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Amer Kobaslija "Road to Rossinière: Paintings of Balthus' Studio"
During February and March the George Adams Gallery will present a new series of paintings by Amer Kobaslija. The series, titled “The Road to Rossinière” consists of small, medium and large-scale landscapes...More »
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"Size Matters" Exhibition
Size Matters: some (very) large-scale and small-scale paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Robert Arneson, James Barsness, Roy DeForest, Lesley Dill, Michael Ferris, Jr., Amer Kobaslija, Lino Lago and...More »
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Michael Ferris Jr. and Kako Ueda "New Figurative Sculpture and Drawing"
During November and December, the George Adams Gallery will present new figurative sculpture by Michael Ferris, Jr. and recent cut-paper studies by Kako Ueda. Ferris’s new sculptures are portraits...More »
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Elmer Bischoff "Figurative Paintings, 1953-1966"
GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY presents an exhibition of paintings by Elmer Bischoff. The works in the exhibition span the first half of the 20 year period between 1953 and 1973 in which Bischoff, co-founder of...More »
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H.C. Westermann "Woodcuts, Linocuts, and Lithographs"
Through October in the Drawing Gallery the George Adams Gallery presents H.C. Westermann: Woodcuts, Linocuts, and Lithographs 1962 – 1975. The exhibition features 14 prints including several rare examples...More »
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"Summer Group Show: New and Classic" Exhibition
[Image: Sandy Winters "Family Tree" (2010) graphite, oil, block print collage on panel, 96 x 72 in.]More »
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"Four American Landscapes" Exhibition
GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY presents Four American Landscapes. The exhibition was curated by Jonathan Fineberg for the 99th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College in...More »
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Robert Arneson "Founding Funk: Sculpture and Drawings 1956-1966"
An exhibition of early work by Robert Arneson (1930-1992), “Founding Funk" traces the artist’s transition from a highly accomplished wheel-based potter to a creator of irreverent and often sexually charged...More »
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Alain Vaës "Watercolors"
The artist states: "Animals, real or imaginary, and their mythology have long been my favorite subject matter. Of all the media I use, I have a special affinity with watercolor because it is at once fragile...More »
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Lesley Dill "Paper and Bronze"
During February and March the GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY presents an exhibition of new work by LESLEY DILL. The exhibition, Paper & Bronze, consists of large and small-scale figurative sculptures in cast...More »
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"Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing" Exhibition
Beginning on January 8th, the GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY will present “Different Strokes,” an exhibition of 20TH Century drawings. The exhibition, which makes no pretense of being either encyclopedic or scholarly,...More »
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Enrique Chagoya “The Surplus + Plus: An Illegal Alien’s Guide to Economic Theory”
This new body of work tackles cross-cultural issues that arise from the current economic crisis, while displaying Chagoya’s flare for humor and satire. A new codex titled, “An Illegal Alien’s Guide to...More »
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Elmer Bischoff "Figurative drawings from the 1960s"
[Image: Elmer Bischoff "Nude in Chair" (1960) watercolor, goauche on paper, 14 x 17 in.]More »
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Andrew Lenaghan "New large-scale paintings"
[Image: Andrew Lenaghan "Untitled (Studio)" (2009) oil on canvas, 68 1/2 x 93 in.]More »
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"Get with the Program" Group Show
[Image: Amer Kobaslija "Con Te Partiro II" (2007) Oil on panel, 42 x 48 in.]More »
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"Parsons Pink Slips: Selected Work by the Department of Fine Arts Adjunct Faculty" Exhibition
During June the George Adams Gallery will present an exhibition of recent work by members of the adjunct faculty of the Fine Arts Department at Parsons. The exhibition is being presented as a show of support...More »
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Charles Marsh "Collages"
In the Drawing Gallery is an exhibition of ten collages by CHARLES MARSH, his second show of work from the 1990s at George Adams Gallery. An expanded version of the show will travel to the Greenville County...More »
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Ron Nagle "Bookends, Weeoramas and Flareware"
The GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY presents an exhibition of new work by RON NAGLE. The exhibition consists of eight new small-scale ceramic sculptures and ten pencil studies. Nagle’s second exhibition with the...More »
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Peter Saul "Drawings and Prints, 1960-1975"
George Adams Gallery exhibits drawings and prints from 1960 to 1975 by PETER SAUL. The exhibition, which surveys Saul’s artistic progression from Pop Art to politics, fills the gallery’s two exhibition...More »
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Enrique Chagoya "Adventures and Misadventures, Prints and Multiples 2002-2008"
George Adams Gallery presents a survey exhibition of prints and multiples by Enrique Chagoya. The show, which will take up both the main and drawing galleries, will feature approximately 15 works published...More »
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Elmer Bischoff "Abstract Paintings 1948-1952"
The George Adams Gallery announces its representation of the Estate of Elmer Bischoff and to present an exhibition of abstract paintings dating from 1948-1952. The exhibition, which consists of mostly...More »
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Andrew Lenaghan "Recent Paintings of Maine"
The George Adams Gallery presents an exhibition of landscape paintings by Andrew Lenaghan in the Drawing Gallery. The exhibition consists of 12 oil paintings on panel made this past summer during a residency...More »
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Kako Ueda "Totem: New Paper Cut Outs"
George Adams Gallery opens an exhibition of paper cut-outs by Japanese-born artist Kako Ueda. The exhibition, which features seven works created over the past three years, is Ueda’s second with the gallery...More »
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"COOL" Summer Invitational Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2008-07-10 - 2008-08-15
Summer in the city: typically 95 degrees with 95% humidity. Out on the street it feels like 150. So why stay out when you can come in and be COOL! George Adams Gallery is pleased to present COOL an...More »
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Amer Kobaslija "New Paintings"
[Image: Amer Kobaslija "Florida Studio With Fish" (2008) Oil on panel, 42 x 56 in.]More »
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Michael Ferris Jr. " New Sculpture"
During April and May the George Adams Gallery exhibits new sculpture by Michael Ferris Jr. The exhibition, the artist’s first with the gallery, features a series of sculptures made from recycled wood...More »
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leonardogillesfleur "Video and Sculpture"
George Adams Gallery presents exhibit of the work of leonardogillesfleur, the collaborative team of artists Leonardo Giacomuzzo and Gilles-Fleur Boutry. The exhibition, titled Double Sense, features a...More »