IN THE SPOTLIGHT
ALICE BABER
Alice Baber
ART | BASEL
Discover seven trailblazing galleries debuting at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
Among the 242 galleries partaking in the 2025 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, 23 newcomers will showcase a diverse array of not-to-be-missed artists from across the globe. Below, we highlight seven galleries from Brazil, Italy, France, Hong Kong, and the United States that are gearing up for their debut in March.
Berry Campbell (Galleries sector, United States)
When Christine Berry and Martha Campbell opened their New York City gallery, their intention was simply to showcase outstanding art, not necessarily to focus on female artists. Twelve years later, it turns out that the outstanding art happened to be by women, particularly postwar painters who were overlooked in their lifetimes. ‘With a combination of serious research, finely curated exhibitions, and a whole lot of tenacity, we have been able to build artist legacies,’ says Berry. The gallery’s exclusively American program includes Alice Baber, known for her luminous color fields; Lynne Drexler, who created technicolor, mosaic-like paintings; and Bernice Bing, celebrated for her spiritual abstractions. All three artists will be featured in the gallery’s forthcoming Hong Kong presentation.
by By Tara Anne Dalbow
UPSILON GALLERY NEW YORK
Upsilon Gallery Presents: BEYOND THE SURFACE
NEW YORK, NY - Upsilon Gallery is thrilled to announce BEYOND THE SURFACE, an exhibition celebrating the work of ten extraordinary female artists whose vibrant abstract creations invite viewers to transcend the two-dimensional plane. This remarkable showcase unites renowned pioneers like Judy Chicago, Cecily Brown, Alice Baber, Francine Tint, and Susan Roth with rising stars Anna Bogatin Ott, Xinyan Zhang, Rachel MacFarlane, Ryoko Endo, and SoHyun Bae. Together, they illuminate the transformative power of feminist expression in a time of societal and cultural complexity.
Judy Chicago and Alice Baber, trailblazers in their fields, have laid the groundwork for female artists to break boundaries and embrace creative liberation. Chicago’s use of symbolic imagery explores femininity, while Baber’s innovative “pouring” technique revolutionized abstract art, demonstrating the infinite possibilities of color and form. Building on this legacy, Cecily Brown merges emotion with movement in her dynamic compositions, Francine Tint captivates the viewer with her gestural, pouring techniques, and Susan Roth experiments with materials that challenge the confines of the flat canvas.
December 12 – January 31, 2025
THE BROOKLYN RAIL
Alice Baber: Colors of the Rainbow
Alice Baber is exceptional among once overlooked, now rediscovered postwar artists, as evidenced not only by the steady momentum that has gathered behind her art in the past year—at auctions and art fairs, in solo presentations in New York and London, and with a rush of scholarship capped off by a forthcoming biography by art historian Gail Levin—but also by the vitality and persuasiveness of the works on display in Colors of the Rainbow, organized by Jody Klotz Fine Art in collaboration with Leslie Feely Gallery. The twelve paintings (ten oils and two watercolors) date from 1960 to 1981, the year before Baber’s untimely death from cancer at age fifty-four. She was of the generation that moved away from the pathos and painterliness of 1950s abstraction, though unlike many of her contemporaries, Baber did not have a prolonged or significant Abstract Expressionist phase. From the start, her mature painting was based upon the emotional resonance of color.
By Alex Grimley
ARTLYST
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Alice Baber, Dervishes Before the Palace, 1972.
This melodic and brightly coloured canvas comes from when Pop Art and minimalism were a la mode in American art circles. It is a subtle yet vibrant triptych that excellently uses negative space and fluid washes of oil paint. Perhaps the white areas indeed reference whirling dervishes, and the colours mimic the brightly coloured patterns of palaces and mosques of Turkey. The energy of the painting is calming despite the beautiful and rhythmic movement of the paint. The eye cannot help but wander around the surface, all the while only finding hints of details. Baber spent time studying in France, and certain parts are reminiscent of Robert Delaney, and her time in New York would have ensured that she was familiar with Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis. This painting is full of energy and is an excellent example of a late Abstract Expressionist tableau.
By Clayton Calvert
GENE DAVIS
Gene Davis
PHILLIPS LONDON
CASE AUCTIONS
Estates represented include Gertrude S. Caldwell, Nashville; John Z. C. Thomas, Knoxville; Dr. Larry Wolfe, Nashville; Norman Luboff; plus the collection of Jon E. Jones, Cookeville; and deaccessioned art from the Hunter Museum, Vanderbilt University Museum, the Memphis-Brooks Museum, and more.
Gene Davis
Jan. 25 2025
FREEMAN’S
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ARTNEWS
Art In Embassies Partners with Smithsonian American Art Museum for Long-Term Loan of Gene Davis Paintings
The US State Department’s Arts in Embassies program recently announced a collaboration with the Smithsonian American Art Museum through a new long-term loan of Gene Davis paintings.
The collaboration will also be the first one between a Smithsonian Institution and the program, which was created in 1963 under President John F. Kennedy.
THE KREEGER MUSEUM
The Collaborative | The DMV Collects the DMV
The Kreeger Museum and The Washington Print Club are pleased to present The DMV Collects the DMV, on view at The Kreeger Museum
Featured Artists
Rush Baker IV, Leon Berkowitz, Zoë Charlton, William Christenberry, Wesley Clark, Steven Cushner, Gene Davis, Werner Drewes, Cheryl Edwards, Edgar Endress, Mary Early, Rosemary Feit Covey, Helen Frederick, Sam Gilliam, Susan Goldman, Tom Green, Mike Hagan, Mira Hecht, James Hilleary, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Kainen, Kevin MacDonald, linn meyers, Jiha Moon, Cory Oberndorfer, Terry Parmelee, Jefferson Pinder, Michael Platt, Carol Reed, Charles Ritchie, Rozeal, Soledad Salamé, Joyce J. Scott, Luis Silva, Elzbieta Sikorska, Molly Springfield, Eve Stockton, Renée Stout, Di Bagley Stovall, Prentiss Taylor, Caitlin Teal Price, Ben Tolman, Andrea Way, James Lesesne Wells, Wilmer Wilson IV, Julie Wolfe, Sue Wrbican
October 26, 2024 to February 1, 2025.
MUSEUM KUNSTPALAST
Die Ausstellung Farbrausch veranschaulicht die Entwicklung anhand von über 70 Gemälden und Grafiken von Künstler*innen der amerikanischen und europäischen Farbfeldmalerei wie Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Winfred Gaul und Barbara Herbert.
About this show
Colour has always been an essential component of art. In the mid-20th century, painters moved it to centre stage in a new way and focused on colour as a pictorial subject in its own right. Displaying over 80 paintings and prints by artists of American and German colour field painting such as Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Winfred Gaul and Barbara Herbert, the exhibition “Rush of colour” illustrates this development. The selection of works ranges from the first tendencies at the beginning of the 20th century through the core phase in the 1950s and 1960s to current positions that approach the subject. What sensations are triggered by colour? How does it unfold its effect, even beyond the canvas? The show, compiled from the Kemp Collection and supplemented by works from the Kunstpalast collection, provides a comprehensive view of the diversity of colour field painting.
27 Nov 2024 - 30 Mar 2025
MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART
1960s Hard Edge and Op Art
Tribute to The Responsive Eye
MMofA is up to something big! Mobile Museum of Art celebrates 60 years of creativity at our 60th anniversary in October. To celebrate, MMofA will host a blockbuster exhibition of paintings and sculpture in tribute to a cutting-edge exhibition called The Responsive Eye. Shortly after the date when MMofA first opened its doors, this exhibition created a sensation as visitors flocked to the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) in early 1965 and media outlets buzzed about the phenomenon.
Featured Artists
Frank Stella, Josef Albers, Julian Stanczak, Victor Vasarely, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis and many more.
October 29, 2024 – April 12, 2025
GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM
FROM THE VAULT: SELECTIONS OF WORKS ON PAPER FROM GRAM’S COLLECTION
Every decade, museums undergo the meticulous, painstaking task of inventorying the entire collection. Out of the more than 6,000 objects in the collection of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, nearly 2/3 are works on paper. In 2024, after months of reviewing thousands of these objects, GRAM’s Curatorial department studied anew countless captivating works created by artists in the collection whose artistry reveals a tacit formal or philosophical affinity. Presented in this exhibition are a selection of those works, chosen for their undeniable craftsmanship and enigmatic visual resonances with one another.
Artists in the exhibition include Alex Katz, Gene Davis, James Rosenquist, Jacob Lawrence, Patricia A. Quinlan, Arthur Secunda, Derrick Greaves, Nancy Ester Pletos, Françoise Gilot, and Saul Steinberg.
Jan 14, 2025 — May 4, 2025
Secchia Upper Lobby Gallery
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
Moments in Modernism
Moments in Modernism highlights the diversity and high quality of the AGO’s modern art collection, which has been built over time by generations of museum curators and patrons.
This installation will show collection strengths from artistic movements such as Pop Art, Abstraction, Realism, and Minimalism. An international approach in artistic styles will be presented, including a body of work from the AGO holdings by Brazilian artists, recognizing the global nature of modernism. A selection of contemporary works that respond to modernist movements will also be shown.
Many of the artists, including Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, Gerhard Richter, and Mark Rothko are well known while others are still yet to be broadly recognized such as Tomie Ohtake, Rubem Valentim, Gene Davis and Kazuo Nakamura. A particular focus will be Canadian artists including Alex Colville, Rita Letendre, Jack Bush, Agnes Martin, Guido Molinari and Norval Morrisseau.
June 14, 2024 - September 1, 2025
JON SCHUELER
Jon Shueler
THE NATIONAL
New exhibit inspired by Scottish weather to open in Dundee
Among these unique pieces, visitors can admire Second World War pilot Jon Schueler’s abstract expressionist work of the Scottish skies.
By Anna Flynn
ARTMAG
Watching the Skies at Dundee’s McManus
The exhibition includes majestic skyscapes by artists influenced by abstract expressionism such as Fife-born John Houston and the American Jon Schueler, whose work is pictured – a second world war pilot who ‘found every passion in the sky’ – while also on view is Stanley Cursiter’s ground-breaking Rain on Princes Street (1913). Inspired by the Italian Futurists, it suggests the fragmentary and distorting effects of pouring rain.
by David White
THE MCMANUS: DUNDEE’S ART GALLERY & MUSEUM
Jon Schueler
Work by more than 30 artists captures the ever changing Scottish weather in our new free exhibition. Journey through Scotland’s unique climate with sweeping skies, clouds, rain and sunny days, painted by some of the most important Scottish artists of the last century. Explore how our Scots language evolved to reflect our weather and how our seasons affect our moods.
Saturday 9 November 2024 and runs throughout 2025
HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM
What do skywatchers, professional and amateur, notice when they look at the sky as depicted in works of art?
"The Art of Skywatching" at the Hudson River Museum, NY shows "Frozen Descent," 1987, by Jon Schueler at the right of Jane Wilson's painting. Such interesting companion paintings in the whole group.
Featured Artists
Derrick Adams, Jon Scueheler, Katherine Bradford, Albert Bierstadt, Howard Russell Butler, Arthur Dove, Frank Russell Green, Richard Haas, James Hendricks, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Frances Hynes, Amy (Frisbie Blair) Jones, Louis Aston Knight, Elihu Vedder, Jane Wilson, Robert Zakanitch
March 4, 2022–ongoing
WOMAN IN THE SKY
Magda Salvesen lives amongst thousands of her late husband's paintings. Her loft -- the same one she and Jon shared as a couple -- remains both her home and the site of the recently formed Jon Schueler Foundation, a living museum dedicated to preserving Jon's legacy. Every wall is hung with Schuelers -- they surround Magda's life, and make it up. A celebrated garden and art historian in her own right, Magda has nonetheless dedicated her life to these paintings.
Director Biography - Max Woertendyke
SYD SOLOMON
Syd Solomon
SARASOTA ESTATE AUCTION
Modern Design, Jewelry & Fine Art - Day 1
This auction includes four pieces by Syd Solomon
Jan 18, 2025