Oil on linen
41 East 57th Street, 11th floor
New York, NY 10022
April 6 – May 20
Reception: Wednesday, April 6 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm
70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts presents a wide range of paintings on canvas through a spectrum of history. The show functions as a historical survey while at the same time a playful new vantage point. The eclectic mix derived from seven decades-worth of work initiates an unusual dialogue between historic and contemporary works. Furthermore, modern and post-modern influences and concerns are addressed. 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts assembles works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock.
The exhibition aims to initiate an unusual dialogue between modern and post-modern concerns. Jason McCoy Gallery states, “It is our ambition to stress the timelessness of the abstract language in painting and to create a platform, which allows older works to appear in a new light and contemporary compositions to be viewed in the context of their influences.”
Abstract Painting
Traced back to its Roman origins, the word ‘abstract’ means literally to ‘drag’ or ‘draw’ something away. Its etymological root in Latin is quite forceful, not gentle diversion or digression but a purposeful motion of distancing and detaching, extraction and relocation. Abstract art was not quietly ushered through the back door of history. Instead it was proclaimed, loud and true, by countless parties and offered up in a wealth of guises by artists approaching abstraction from a great variety of perspectives.
Press and Reviews 70 Years of Abstract Painting:
70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts found much critical attention. Reviews of the exhibition include Katy Crocker’s poetic vision in
Painting, Doritos and Color Theory, found in literary and critical review The End of Being. Peggy Roalf also reviews the show in Design Arts Daily, Abstraction: Informers and The Informed. Hyperallergic Magazine’s
Lynn Maliszewski also wrote about the show in, A Perceptual Dance Party for Your Eyes
Featured Artists:
Josef Albers, Peggy Bates, Norman Bluhm, Marc Van Cauwenbergh, Giorgio Cavallon, Cora Cohen, Gene Davis, Joe Fyfe, Maxwell Hendler, Hans Hofmann, Sharon Horvath, Terrell James, Martin Kline, Nick Lamia, Jim Lee, Sarah Mattes Martin Mullin, Rob Nadeau, Thomas Nozkowski, Paul Pagk, Charles Pollock, Jackson Pollock, Willy Bo Richardson, Jennifer Riley, Russell Roberts, Charles Seliger, Hedda Sterne, Gwenn Thomas, Leslie Wayne, and John Zinsser, among others.
More about Jason McCoy Gallery:
Founded in 1982, Jason McCoy Gallery focuses on furthering the understanding of abstract painting from a contemporary point of view. Furthermore, 70 Years of Abstract Painting reflects the many sources of inspiration the gallery draws from.
Located in the Fuller Building in Midtown Manhattan, the gallery represents an international group of acclaimed contemporary artists working in painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation. Secondary market works include the art of Louis Comfort Tiffany to Constantin Brancusi, Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb and Andy Warhol.
As a longstanding member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA),
the gallery subscribes to the highest standard of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice. Other major group exhibitions curated by Stephanie Buhmann at Jason McCoy include Paper Band.
More about Stephanie Buhmann:
Stephanie Buhmann is an art critic, art historian, and curator. Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, she is based in New York City. Her essays and art reviews have been published by a variety of international galleries, newspapers, and art magazines including Sculpture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, ARTPulse, Art on Paper, Art Papers, Art Collector and Art Lies. Several of her texts have been translated into German and Italian. In addition, she has translated several museum catalogue essays, including for the Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy (2014) and Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany (2013). She has received a Kress Foundation Fellowship (2002) and an Archive- and Library Stipend from the Arp Foundation (2015).
In addition, Stephanie Buhmann curated numerous solo and group exhibitions. Curatorial projects include at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, the Macy Art Gallery, Teacher’s College, Columbia University and Jason McCoy, Inc. Artists she has exhibited include, Cora Cohen, Lee Krasner, Frederick Kiesler, Jackson Pollock, and Richard Pousette-Dart. Her published interviews include conversations with Polly Apfelbaum, Ernesto Neto, Kiki Smith, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Nancy Spero.
Press Releases for 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts
Santa Fe University of Art and Design Press Release:
Santa Fe University Professor to Exhibit in New York Gallery
Jason McCoy Gallery Press Release:
70 Years of Abstraction
excited to see how the contemporary paintings compliment the so-called “masters” of abstract painting.