IN THE SPOTLIGHT
ALICE BABER
Alice Baber
GRAHAM SHAY 1857
Four Decades of American Abstraction: 1940 – 1980
Exhibition Description
The exhibition focuses primarily on the second generation of the Abstract Expressionist artists, including paintings, watercolors, mixed media, and drawings. Comprising approximately thirty works of art by, amongst others, the following artists:
Alice Baber, Norman Bluhm, Lynne Drexler, Friedel Dzubas, Carl Holty, Robert Indiana,
Mercedes Matter, Theodoros Stamos, James Suzuki, Anna Walinska, Taro Yamamoto
Master Drawings New York, January 30 - February 7, 2026
DAPHNE ALAZRAKI FINE ART
Daphne Alazraki Fine Art
The Palm Beach Show 2026: Alice Baber's work is scheduled to be featured at the Daphne Alazraki Fine Art booth during this fair.
February 12-17, 2026
ALICE BABER
THE ART MUSEUM OF GREATER LAFAYETTE
Exploring the Collection: Alice Baber
An insightful exploration of the abstract expressionist painter Alice Baber. Discover her extensive works from our Permanent Collection and listen to renowned speakers Danielle Johnson and Gail Levin discuss her life and lasting impact on the art world.
Don't miss the chance to attend a book signing for the upcoming release, Alice Baber: An Artist's Triumph Over Tragedy, with author Gail Levin following the program! Learn more about the book here: CLICK HERE For more details.
February 17, 2026 from: 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
ALICE BABER
Discover the captivating life of a Permanent Collection artist
Exploring the Collection: Alice Baber
February 17 | 6:00-7:00 PM | At the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
ALICE BABER AN ARTIST’S TRIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY BY GAIL LEVIN
ABOUT THE BOOK
The definitive biography of abstract artist Alice Baber, whose luminous and beloved works took the world by storm.
From one of the most acclaimed art biographers writing today comes the surprising life of Alice Baber, who produced exquisite abstract paintings of vibrantly colored shapes that created an illusion of floating light. Heralded as an “artist of lyrical abstractions,” Baber’s paintings had already entered the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney at the time of her premature death at just fifty-four. How could such an accomplished and visionary artist then fall into near obscurity?
The Book will be released on February 3, 2026
"Gail Levin continues her quest to right the wrongs of art history's tendency to slight women artists in favor of their more established husband's. Such was (and is) the case for too many talented painters like Alice Baber. Kudos to Dr. Levin for her valiant efforts." Judy Chicago
"A painter of color and light. Alice Baber is the first scholarly examination of the artist. Levin’s thorough research offers a firm grounding for future studies. A richly detailed homage.” Kirkus Reviews
ALICE BABER
THE LEON LEVY CENTER FOR BIOGRAPHY
Join Gail Levin and Deborah Solomon for a lively chat about artist Alice Baber in person!
At the time of her premature death at just fifty-four, the paintings of Alice Baber (1928 - 1982) had already entered the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney. How could such an accomplished and visionary artist then fall into near obscurity?
Mar 24, 2026 from 6:30pm to 8pm EDT
ALICE BABER
As if in a Dream: History, Fantasy, Future
As if in a Dream: History, Fantasy, Future is curated by James Glisson, Chief Curator & Curator of Contemporary Art. This exhibition features Alice Baber, Dominic Chambers, Eduardo Chavez, Rafael Coronel, Daniel Crews-Chubb, Marsden Hartley, Mimi Lauter, Wright Ludington, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Jorge Pardo, Patricia Peco, Lari Pitman, Odilon Redon, Max Hooper Schneider, and Brenna Youngblood, among others.
March 1, 2026 – January 3, 2027
ALICE BABER
Reinstallation of Museum’s Swanson and Orkin Galleries Brings Out New Selections of Modern Art
One wall explores the theme of dance and music through visual art. Joining abstract expressionist Alice Baber’s oil painting “Sound of the Red Dance” are two other oil paintings: Pierre Daura’s “Dancers” and Stephen Greene’s “Fermata #4.” A bronze sculpture of a woman by John Rhoden invites viewers to consider how the paintings nearby echo abstracted figure’s gestures. To engage the artwork in a different way, Hill worked with Peter Van Zandt Lane, associate professor of composition at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music, to create a playlist of songs inspired by the works on view. A fermata is a musical symbol indicating that a performer can hold a note, chord or rest as long as they want for emphasis. The playlist encourages viewers to pause and take a moment to reflect on the artwork.
Authored by:
Jessica Smith
ALICE BABER
Family Day: Mix It Up
See bright colors, big shapes and unexpected materials, then create your own modern masterpiece.
Mar 28, 2026
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN
Redefining American art through untold stories at The Jule Museum
In his presentation, Nemerov highlighted the concept of livingness, or a sense of life, that was integral to the works of Frankenthaler. He also detailed how other artists featured in the exhibit portray that sense of livingness in vastly different ways. Some, such as Hartigan, opted for darker bolder motifs, and others, such as Baber, employed lighter and more subtle techniques.
Visitors to the exhibit can see the liveliness of the art with Frankenthaler's "Blue Territory," Hardigan's "Sweden" and Baber's "Lord of the Rainbow" – all being showcased in the exhibit. Ethan Olsen, one visitor to the exhibition, described why he found the storytelling of the collection to be impactful. By Erin Cosby
Photo by Roxy Duda | Photographer | The Auburn Plainsman
WOMEN ARTISTS IN ASCENDANCE
Featuring objects on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art alongside the university art collection, Women Artists in Ascendance pulls back the curtain on the story of modern American art by displaying works from a dozen women artists who were goliaths in their own right, including Helen Frankenthaler, Alice Baber, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Joan Brown, Amanda Williams and other notable women artists.
Exhibition Info:
August 19, 2025 — July 2, 2026
Bill L. Harbert Gallery
SOTHEBYS NY
Alice Baber
The Green Door to the Wind
signed, titled and dated 1976 on the overlap
Acrylic on canvas
30 by 40 in.
76 by 101.5 cm.
Executed in 1976.
Sotheby’s Private Sales is pleased to present a thoughtfully curated selection of works in their summer selling exhibition opening in New York.
GENE DAVIS
Gene Davis
YARES ART
Installation view: Frank Stella, Gene Davis and Larry Poons
YARES ART is presenting Fields of Color V on view in New York gallery from September 2025 to February 2026. Fields of Color V materializes the personal and professional relationships between the principal artists of the Color Field and Abstract Expressionist movements. The twenty-eight monumental scale works on view demonstrate the revolutionary techniques employed by these artists, often learned or influenced from one another, that went on to permanently alter the trajectory and status of American art in the canon of art history.
September 15, 2025 – February 27, 2026
HOLLIS TAGGART
Expanded Fields, a historic group exhibition examining the emergence and evolution of Color Field painting and its expanded dialogue across postwar abstraction. Featuring works by Gene Davis, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Friedel Dzubas, Leon Berkowitz, Sam Francis, Larry Poons, Hans Hofmann, Dorothy Hood, Sheila Isham, Teruko Yokoi, and Anthony Caro, the exhibition traces the sustained inquiry into color as structure and subject.
The exhibition will be on view on the first floor of Hollis Taggart in Chelsea from January 15 to February 21, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, January 15 from 6 to 8 pm.
GENE DAVIS
The Legacy of the Washington Color School
A single-gallery installation exploring the legacy of the Washington Color School.
The Washington Color School emerged in the 1950s as a new direction of abstraction centered in Washington, DC. Known for staining unprimed canvases with vibrant fields of color, the first-generation Washington Color School artists, including Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Howard Mehring, Paul Reed, and Thomas Downing, explored the expressive power of color, light, and form. They were unified by a similar style and sensibility rather than a manifesto, advancing abstraction through innovative processes and an emphasis on color.
November 22, 2025 - April 12, 2026
EXPLORE THIS EVENT
GENE DAVIS
Recent Acquisitions
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA)
Gene Davis's works are featured as part of the museum's permanent collection rotation.
Exhibition
February 4, 2026 – April 26, 2026
GENE DAVIS
This exhibition includes works by Pierre Alechinsky, Vincent Baldassano, Robert Baxter, Romare Bearden, Ilya Bolotowsky, Ann Chernow, Eric Chiang, Ed Colker, Arnold Copeland, Michael Cummings, Charles Michael Daugherty, James Daugherty, Lisa Daugherty, Gene Davis, Paul Decker, Stevan Dohanos, Seymour Fogel, Sam Francis, Elsie Freund, Frances Gershwin Godowsky, Sam Gilliam, Sidney Gordin, Richard Hunt, Roberto Lugo, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Tudor Maier, Suzanne McCullough, Joan Miró, László Moholy-Nagy, Robert Natkin, John Nichols, A. R. Penck, Walter Quirt, Paul Rand, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Risko, Alex Ross, Arnold Roth, Barbara Rothenberg, Eric von Schmidt, Larry Silver, Frank Smith, Tracy Sugarman, and Jack Whitten.
February 26, 2026 – June 7, 2026
Opening reception, Thursday February 26 from 6-8pm.
GENE DAVIS
We, Too, Are Made of Wonders
The exhibition features artists such as Dorothy Hood, Mildred Thompson and Boramie Ann Sao, who explore abstract theories and scientific laws using rich colors and dynamic movement. Lamar Dodd and Robert McCall observe NASA space missions and attempt to capture their cultural significance. Photographers Arthur Tress and Mark Steinmetz compel audiences to consider the miracle of flight by offering views of the sky from multiple vantage points. John Biggers, Helen Lundeberg and Gene Davis venerate the Earth and sky, reminding viewers to take a moment and look up.
January 24 – June 28, 2026
A CONVERSATION WITH GENE DAVIS
Do you think it might have something to do with spatial qualities?
What my stripes have become now are quite different from what they started out as. I didn’t really understand what I was about at first. I think maybe the best painters don’t know what they’re doing in the beginning. The painter who can tell you exactly what he’s doing isn’t doing much. At first I didn’t have the foggiest notion of what I was doing. It just seemed like maybe a good idea. Pure whim motivated it. I think that’s a pretty good motivation anyway, to do something just for the sheer hell of it. Later I began to realize there was something behind my decision. You see, I’m a frustrated musician. I studied music all through my teens. But I have a tin ear, and I wasn’t really very good. Painting stripes with musical intervals may be a kind of unconscious compensation for the fact that I never made it as a musician. I don’t set out to do musical paintings—that’s corny. The fact remains, however, that music is an art of interval and my work is an art of interval.
I have always been an interval artist. Even now in the new black and white paintings I’m working on, I am interested in spatial interval. Before it was color interval.
—Barbara Rose
THE PAINTER WHO EARNED HIS STRIPES
Gene Davis, the leading member of the Washington Color School, is celebrated a half century after his striped paintings caught on
“The Smithsonian Institution, which benefitted from a generous amount of his work donated to the museum after his death in 1985 at 64, may have missed the 50th anniversary of the landmark “Washington Color Painters” exhibition last year, but is making up for it with the newly opened “Gene Davis: Hot Beat” at its Smithsonian American Art Museum.
—Roger Catlin - Museums Correspondent
JON SCHUELER
Jon Schueler
ARTNET
Inside a New Gallery Championing Postwar Abstraction
In a time marked by mass gallery closures, Matthew Shamnoski took the leap from online to brick and mortar with a gallery dedicated to stewarding the architects of 20th-century abstraction.
I’m very excited about our next exhibition, “Jon Schueler: Moods and Memories,” which centers on works Schueler created as dedications and remembrances—most notably paintings dedicated to his widow, Magda Salvesen, who continues to lead the foundation. These works reveal a deeply personal dimension of Schueler’s practice, where memory and emotional attachment become inseparable from abstraction. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Max Woertendyke’s new short documentary, Woman in the Sky (2025), which focuses on Magda and the legacy she has helped shape. We’ll be hosting a screening at the opening reception on February 12.
SHAMNOSKI GALLERY
Jon Schueler
Upcoming Solo Exhibition
Titled "Jon Schueler: Moods and Memories".
Mood With Magda: Love Remembered, II
oil on canvas
New York, November 1975
72 x 65 in/182.88 x 165.1 cm
o/c 637
February 12-March 17, 2026
JON SCHUELER
The film will be screened as part of a solo exhibition titled "Jon Schueler: Moods and Memories".
Shamnoski Gallery (115 East 72nd Street, New York, NY 10021).
Thursday, February 12, 2026.
The accompanying exhibition runs from February 12 through March 15, 2026
JON SCHUELER
ART AT KIRKCALDY GALLERIES
Collecting the Contemporary: Scottish Art at Kirkcaldy Galleries
This display features works by modern and contemporary painters who were inspired by Scotland. In addition to works by John Bellany, Ken Currie, Callum Innes and Jon Schueler,
31 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2027
THE NEW CRITERION
OF SOUND MIND
by Erik Anjou
On the life and work of the painter Jon Schueler.
A number of years ago I was introduced to the work of Jon Schueler (1916–92), the Abstract Expressionist painter, protégé of Clyfford Still, and subject of the first solo show at Leo Castelli’s new gallery in 1957. Expansive, luminous works that hover between abstraction and representation, swaths and splashes of soft-edged color that float like clouds from the canvas—to cut to the chase, I became an acolyte. Both a Schueler painting and his heralded autobiography, The Sound of Sleat, adorn my Inwood apartment.
ETHICS PRESS
Infused with Place
The Translation of Scotland's Geography in Paintings of the Sea
by Joe Boyd
JON SCHUELER
Acclaimed Art World Documentary from Executive Producer David Corenswet Expands National Reach with Austin Film Festival Selection
"Woman in the Sky" Offers an Intimate Portrait of Love, Legacy, and Magda Salvesen's Pioneering Role in Artist Estate Management.
SYD SOLOMON
SYD SOLOMON
SYD SOLOMON
Origins: Sarasota Artist Colony, 1945-1965
ABOUT:
This historical group exhibition revisits the creative legacy of the Sarasota Colony—a vibrant and visionary community of artists who helped shape the region’s post-war cultural identity and laid the groundwork for Sarasota’s emergence as a thriving arts destination.
Drawn to the Gulf Coast for its climate, light, and Ringling School of Art, these painters, printmakers, and educators established studios, taught classes, and exhibited widely, fostering a collaborative spirit that flourished between 1945 and 1965. Origins is a visual tribute to this remarkable era—highlighting the innovation, camaraderie, and enduring influence of the colony's members.
FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Syd Solomon, Helen Sawyer, Elden Rowland, Shirley Clement, George Kaiser, Martha and William Hartman, Judy Axe, Robert Chase, Jerry Farnsworth, Harold Slingerland, Al Parker, Hilton and Dorothy Leech, Eugene White, Loran Wilford, Ben Stahl, Sidney Laufman, Thornton Utz, Glenna Finch, Roy Nichols, Nike Parton, Robert Larsen, and more.
January 20-April 11, 2026
SYD SOLOMON
Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed
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.
February 7, 2025 - June 1, 2026