IN THE SPOTLIGHT
ALICE BABER
Alice Baber
HERITAGE AUCTIONS
ART | BASEL
Discover seven trailblazing galleries debuting at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
Alice Baber, The Sound of the Summer Hermit (The Key of Sound and Light), 1976. at Berry Campbell
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
March 28-30, 2025
DALLAS ART FAIR
Alice Baber’s Hermit in the Cave of Light, 1976, at Jody Klotz Fine Art
These dealers join 14 Texas-founded galleries, including must-check-out Martha’s from Austin and new arrival Jody Klotz Fine Art of Abilene (ask to see color-field canvases by the rediscovered Alice Baber).
April 11-13, 2025
GENE DAVIS
Gene Davis
SHOWPLACE NY
New York City Estate Auction
Showplace presents 280 lots of fine and decorative arts directly from estates of the New York City and metropolitan area. The selection features a collection of artworks by artists including Sonia Delaunay, Gene Davis, Alex Katz, Victor Vasarely, Burhan Dogancay, Rosalind Schneider, Shirin Neshat, Robert Brackman, Ross Bleckner, Dario Morales, Irene Zevon, Robert O’Meara, Elfi Schuselka, Salvador Dali, Francisco Zuniga, Erte, and Richard Ziegler.
Feb 20, 2025
PALM BEACH MODERN AUCTIONS
Modern + Contemporary Art & Design on March 1, 2025 features 540+ lots by noteworthy names including Basquiat, Bertoia, Gene Davis, Chihuly, Crespi, Evans, Fabelo, Haring, Jenkins, Kagan, Kaneko, Katz, Lalanne, Laverne, Picasso, Slonem, Stella, Tiffany and Warhol, plus rare finds such as a Frank Miller drawing from "Batman: The Dark Knight" and an early Ken Price sculpture.
March 1, 2025
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.
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
ROBERT NATKIN
Robert Natkin
JOHN MORAN AUCTIONEERS
Art + Design, a sale featuring 270+ curated lots of important works by mid-century female artists such as Judy Chicago, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Brown and Astrid Preston. Other iconic modern and contemporary artists also represented include Adolph Gottlieb, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Norman Zammitt, Sam Francis, Baltasar Lobo, Robert Cottingham and Ed Ruscha, Robert Natkin.
February 25, 2025
JON SCHUELER
Jon Schueler
THE SCOTTSDALE FERRARI ART WEEK FAIR
FAPE
The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies
Jon Schueler was an American painter known for his large-scale, abstract compositions which evoke nature. Recognized first as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist he lived in New York City and in Mallaig, Scotland, inspired by the dramatic skies over the Sound of Sleat. His work is included in international collections such as the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra).
In 1975 the Whitney Museum of American Art director John I. H. Baur described Schueler's distinctive style, "We see his paintings one minute as clouds and sea and islands, the next as swirling arrangements of pure color and light. And they shift back and forth in our vision from one pole to the other, amassing richness from both." In 2006, at the time of solo exhibitions of his work in Edinburgh and New York, art reviewer Janet McKenzie wrote of, "his remarkable commitment and development as a mature painter, abstract, yet inspired by natural phenomena."
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.
November 9, 2024 - May 31, 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– March 8, 2026
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
SYD SOLOMON: CONCEALED AND REVEALED
Syd Solomon
Exploring the dualities of war — concealment and revelation, chaos and order – Solomon illustrates the complexities and nuances of military service, providing a visual representation of the psychological and emotional landscapes that Veterans navigate through his abstract art.
A common theme in Solomon’s artwork is the exploration of abstraction and the interaction between nature and human experience. His paintings reflect his deep connection to the environment, with vibrant colors and dynamic compositions that evoke a sense of movement and energy.
Solomon’s art provides a unique lens into the Veteran experience by translating the themes of his military service into abstract expressionist works. His role as a camouflage specialist during World War II, which required a keen understanding of pattern, color, and concealment, directly influenced his artistic style.
February 7, 2025 – May 11, 2025