Artist George Tooker Dies at 90

One of the most acclaimed painters of his generation, George Tooker (1920-2011) possessed an originality and depth of vision that is unsurpassed in modern American art. For over sixty years, he has been highly regarded for his luminous and often enigmatic work. His themes range from alienation and the dehumanizing aspects of contemporary society to personal meditations on the human condition. By reducing action and anecdote to subtle gestures and juxtapositions that carry meaning and express essential truths, Tooker created modern allegories without traditional narrative content.

A Memorial Exhibition is currently on view at DC Moore Gallery
George Tooker: Reality Returns as a Dream
Through August 5, 2011

MORE THAN YOU KNOW
Works by Whitfield Lovell

January 28 - May 1, 2011
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

More Than You Know features nearly fifty works from the early 1990s to the present by the American artist Whitfield Lovell.

The exhibition focuses specifically on the development of Kin, a recent series that is a distillation of the artist's concern with issue of self- and institutional representation. Kin is a series of portrait drawings on paper based on identification documentation such as passport, photo booth, and mug shots. This type of institutional document is designed to represent or classify the sitter in a markedly different manner than the staged photographic portraits Lovell used in other bodies of work. The static positioning, harsh lighting, and blank background that distinguish identification photographs are used by the artist to concentrate on the sitter's face, while his superbly precise draftsmanship allows him to tease out such intangibles as personality and emotional state in deft strokes of conté crayon.

DC Moore Gallery
Relocates to 535 West 22nd Street

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to announce that we are relocating to 535 West 22nd Street. The spacious new gallery opens on January 15, 2011.

The move to a dynamic new location in Chelsea provides DC Moore with the opportunity to expand its ongoing program of concurrently presenting contemporary and 20th century exhibitions. The new space designed by Andrew Ong features two exhibition galleries, including an expansive area with high ceilings that can accommodate large-scale works and a smaller room designed for intimate viewing of paintings and works on paper.

Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism

The Jewish Museum, New York
September 12, 2010 - January 30, 2011

Including work by: Joyce Kozloff and Robert Kushner

Over the past fifty years, feminists have defied an art world dominated by men, deploying direct action and theory while making fundamental changes in their everyday lives. Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism explores the widespread influence of feminist practice on the styles and methods of painting from the 1960s to the present. The provocative paintings on view here embody the tension between individual expression and collective politics, between a traditional medium and radical action.
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Poster by Joyce Kozloff (available for $20)

Threads
Textiles and Fiber in the Works of African American Artists

Curated by Lowery Sims

EK Projects
Bejing, China
September 18 - December 18, 2010

Including work by: Whitfield Lovell

Yvonne Jacquette
AERIALS: Paintings, Prints, Pastels

Center for Maine Contemporary Art
August 05 - September 25 2010

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Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
October 4 - January 3, 2010

Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
March 7 - May 23, 2010

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
June 24 - October 10, 2010

Heat Waves in a Swamp will be the first major Charles Burchfield exhibition to be mounted on the west coast and the first in New York for more than twenty years. Arranged chronologically, it approaches Burchfield’s work with a new perspective facilitated in part by the curatorial sensibilities of Robert Gober. Working with Hammer coordinating curator Cynthia Burlingham, Gober has augmented a large selection of watercolors with the inclusion of extensive biographical material that continually infuses Burchfield’s own thoughts about his work and artistic practice.

Jane Wilson: Horizons

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to announce that the first comprehensive monograph on the American artist, Jane Wilson, will be published by Merrell, London, in October 2009

192 pages
11 x 9 ½ in. (28 x 24 cm)
127 illustrations
$60.00 US
Essay by Elizabeth Sussman; Interview with
Justin Spring

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4 Seasons Seasoned,
Robert Kushner (2004)

Location: 77th Street, 6 Train

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