"Abstract Expressionism In New York" Exhibition

Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery

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The Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery announces our upcoming exhibition, Abstract Expressionism in New York, featuring first and second generation Abstract Expressionists to be on view simultaneously with the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, “Abstract Expressionist New York.”

Beginning after WWII, the American avant-garde burgeoned into an international phenomenon establishing the United States at the forefront of the art world and propagating a style both compelling and diverse. Rife with tension and a bold revelatory power, works from the Abstract Expressionist movement signify a spiritual and philosophical journey distinct to each artist yet comprehensive to the American identity. Breaking away from convention with the use of gesture, imagery, color field or a number of other techniques, these artists channeled deeply emotional charges through their monumental canvases. With New York City as their stomping ground, Abstract Expressionists from the 1940’s to the 1960’s reveled in the urban landscape boisterously rejecting American provincialism while forging a rhythmic, weighty landscape of their own.

Valuing spontaneity and honoring the artistic process, these artists put forth works that demand cerebral participation from the viewer. This confrontation provides a route to the sublime, harrowing the directness and immediacy that defied previous Western norms of beauty and subject matter. This show aims to surface the dialogue between the first and second generations of Abstract Expressionism and to reconcile an art history that elevated some and overlooked many. Despite the prestige of the First School, Second Generation artists were not imitative of those that prospered, but visionaries whose ideas defied the categories and labels of legitimizing critics. This juxtaposition should not be one of competition, but an encompassing homage to a revolutionary movement, to the sophistication imbued in this body of works and what it meant for American art at this time.

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