Exhibitions

Alannah Farrell

Erect September 21 - December 21, 2024 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown, presents Alannah Farrell: Erect, an exhibition of recent works on paper. For the artist, the show’s title is a personal tribute to Emily Brontë, who wrote, “Having levelled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and admire your own charity …” Inspired by the eerie imagery of... Read more

Groundswell

June 28 - August 31, 2024 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Groundswell, a group exhibition bringing together historical and contemporary works from an intergenerational group of artists who use landscape to suggest alternate, yet familiar worlds. Featuring work by LaKela Brown, Teresita Fernández, Anders Hamilton, Kat Lyons, Donald Moffett, Katie Stout, Alexandria Tarver, and Eva Watson-Schütze,... Read more

Bethany Collins

Years April 5 - June 16, 2024 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Bethany Collins: Years, an exhibition of recent work by the artist that maps the interconnection between loss and identity. Building on Collins’s first exhibition with the Gallery in 2023, this focused presentation foregrounds her Years series—black, blind embossed prints of public notices placed by formerly... Read more

Luis Camnitzer

Alteration of the World (1967–78) November 3, 2023 - January 28, 2024 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Luis Camnitzer: Alteration of the World (1967–78), the artist’s eighth solo exhibition with the Gallery. The show highlights core tenets of Camnitzer’s practice—the deconstruction of language, the questioning of individual authorship, and the critique of art’s commodification. Encompassing printmaking, photography, and sculpture, the exhibition emphasizes... Read more

Between Us

September 1 - October 15, 2023 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Between Us, an exhibition gathering works by an intergenerational group of queer artists advancing the practice of portraiture. Confronting the cyclical progress and backlash of the last forty years, these artists bear witness to civil rights and gay liberation movements, the AIDS crisis, the rise... Read more

I Spy

June 23 - August 27, 2023 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents I Spy, a group exhibition of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by Jennie Jieun Lee , Carrie Moyer , and Betty Parsons . Spanning more than a half-century of artmaking, I Spy spotlights alternative, yet complimentary approaches to abstraction that embrace optical pleasure and... Read more

Present in a Lonely Image

March 24 - June 17, 2023 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Present in a Lonely Image, a group exhibition spotlighting the artistic practices of current and former Gallery staff. The show foregrounds the singular approach of seven artists while bringing to the fore their shared proclivity towards introspection. This inclination—defined by both self-representation and/or a critique... Read more

Ricardo Brey

Every Life is a Fire November 4, 2022 - January 21, 2023 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Ricardo Brey: Every Life is a Fire. The artist’s first exhibition at the Gallery’s Hudson Valley location, this focused presentation highlights three works from the artist’s ongoing series of intricate, performative boxes, Every Life is a Fire. These boxes juxtapose disparate materials to speak to... Read more

"A sheet of paper casts a shadow."

September 16 - October 30, 2022 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents 'A sheet of paper casts a shadow.” This group exhibition features a selection of works on paper by six Gallery artists, Ricardo Brey, Luis Camnitzer, Melvin Edwards, Harmony Hammond, Jennie C. Jones, and Betty Parsons. The show takes its title from a 1973 work by... Read more

Harmony Hammond

Monotypes July 22 - September 11, 2022 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Harmony Hammond: Monotypes. This exhibition follows the evolution of Hammond’s monotypes, featuring a selection of works from three series that trace her deep engagement with process: the Bleeding Manuscripts made at the Vermont Studio Center in 1997; a series of “near-monochrome” works created at the... Read more

Steve Locke

Homage to the Auction Block June 10 - July 17, 2022 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown announces Steve Locke’s first exhibition with the Gallery, Homage to the Auction Block. This focused presentation of the artist’s ongoing Homage to the Auction Block series revisits Josef A. Albers’s pivotal body of the work, Homage to the Square (1950–76). Imbuing Albers’s iconic compositions with an... Read more

Melvin Edwards

B-Wire May 6 - June 5, 2022 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Melvin Edwards: B-Wire, an exhibition of Here and There (1970/2022), a barbed wire installation, and historic works on paper. The show builds on Dia Beacon’s large-scale installation of Edwards’s previously unrealized barbed wire works—a number of which recently entered Dia’s permanent collection—which opens on May... Read more

Teresa Burga

Dibujos (1974–2019) March 18 - April 17, 2022 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Teresa Burga: Dibujos (1974–2019). The exhibition featured nearly five decades of works on paper by Burga (1935–2021), paying tribute to the late artist who died in Lima, Peru roughly a year ago from Covid-19. Foregrounding the figure, Dibujos traces the development of Burga’s experimental approach... Read more

Hassan Sharif and Regina Silveira

Between Perception and the World December 10, 2021 - February 27, 2022 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Between Perception and the World, a two-person exhibition of work by Hassan Sharif (1951–2016) and Regina Silveira (b.1939). Placing these two artists in dialogue, the Gallery’s presentation highlighted Sharif and Silveira’s shared interest in questioning societal structures. The show takes its title from a 2009... Read more

Valeska Soares

Acqua Alta October 8 - November 28, 2021 Germantown Valeska Soares: Acqua Alta Germantown: October 8—November 28, 2021 Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Acqua Alta (2019), an iterative installation by Valeska Soares. Acqua Alta draws its name from the annual flooding that surges through the city of Venice, intensified in recent years by the effects of climate change. The... Read more

Subliminal Horizons: Part 2

August 20 - October 3, 2021 Germantown Subliminal Horizons: Part 2 Germantown August 21 – October 3, 2021 Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Subliminal Horizon, the second iteration of an exhibition curated by Alvin Hall . Subliminal Horizons: Part 2 continues as an open-ended survey of Black, indigenous, brown, and Asian artists living and working in the... Read more

Subliminal Horizons: Part 1

July 2 - August 15, 2021 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates presened Subliminal Horizons: Part 1, an exhibition curated by Alvin Hall as an open-ended survey of Black, indigenous, brown, and Asian artists living and working in the Hudson Valley in New York. BIPOC creators and their predecessors have always been present in the Hudson Valley. They numbered... Read more

Joan Semmel

A Balancing Act April 23 - June 20, 2021 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates presented A Balancing Act, a two-venue exhibition of new works by Joan Semmel (b. 1932) in the Gallery's New York City and Germantown, NY spaces. In these recent paintings, Semmel mines new expanses of psychology and vulnerability, bringing her half-century of technical prowess to bear in sophisticated... Read more

South South

February 26 - April 11, 2021 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents South South, an exhibition that examines poetics of space and orientation in works by five Gallery artists: Ricardo Brey, Luis Camnitzer, Melvin Edwards, Regina Silveira, and Valeska Soares. Even as movement across the globe remains constrained, these artists illuminate the imaginative potential of artworks to... Read more

Betty Parsons

1950s Works on Paper November 20, 2020 - January 31, 2021 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Betty Parsons: 1950s Works on Paper, its third exhibition of work by Betty Parsons (1900 – 1982). The Gallery’s presentation highlights a pivotal moment in Parsons’ artistic career after she abandoned figuration to fully embrace abstraction. Comprised of dynamic, intimately scaled works, the exhibition foregrounds... Read more

Jennie C. Jones

Passing Tones and Broken Chords August 14 - November 8, 2020 Germantown Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Jennie C. Jones’ first exhibition with the Gallery, Passing Tones and Broken Chords. The show features new 2020 Acoustic Panel Paintings that further expand on the artist’s research into the sonic, honing her use of materials and approach to color and form. Seamlessly integrating the... Read more

Lorraine O'Grady

Cutting Out CONYT 26 March 7 - August 2, 2020 Germantown Alder & Co., 222 Main Street, Germantown NY 12526 Hours: Friday – Sunday 12 – 4 PM Cutting Out CONYT (1977/2017) returns to Lorraine O’Grady’s 1977 series, Cutting Out The New York Times (CONYT), which consisted of 26 found newspaper poems made between June 5 and November 20, 1977 from... Read more

Hassan Sharif

Iron No. 3 February 1 - March 1, 2020 Germantown Alder & Co., 222 Main Street, Germantown NY 12526 Hours: Friday – Sunday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM Known as the “father of modern art in the United Arab Emirates,' Hassan Sharif combined a London-based art education with the singular experience of living in the young and fast-developing culture of... Read more

Regina Silveira

Quimera November 23 - December 22, 2019 Germantown Alder & Co., 222 Main Street, Germantown NY 12526 Hours: Friday – Sunday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM Quimera is described by the artist as a “visual paradox” in that the illusion of a single lit lightbulb casts a dark, looming shadow, instead of illuminating the space with light. For... Read more

Ricardo Brey

Chinese Purple October 5 - November 17, 2019 Germantown Alder & Co., 222 Main Street, Germantown NY 12526 Hours: Friday – Sunday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM Inviting performative engagement by unclasping the four walls of the box and unfolding them to reveal a complex web of symbols, Brey’s archival boxes from his series Every Life is a Fire... Read more

Hugh Steers

Boxes August 30 - September 22, 2019 Germantown Alder & Co., 222 Main Street, Germantown NY 12526 Hours: Friday – Sunday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM Diagnosed in 1987 with HIV, Hugh Steers’ subject matter speaks to his experience of the devastation of the AIDS crisis. Ultimately succumbing to AIDS-related complications at the age of 32, Steers maintained... Read more

Valeska Soares

Ouroboros August 2 - 25, 2019 Germantown Alder & Co., 222 Main Street, Germantown NY 12526 Hours: Friday – Sunday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM Valeska Soares creates poetic works that fuse and expand upon the languages of post-minimalism and conceptual art. The installation Ouroboros (2014) maps the relationships between time and space. The work’s title refers... Read more

Melvin Edwards

Djeri Jef Fatou July 5 - 28, 2019 Germantown Alder & Co., 222 Main Street, Germantown NY 12526 Hours: Friday – Sunday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM For more than five decades, Melvin Edwards has created evocative sculptures that juxtapose disparate steel elements to reflect on varied themes—oppression, labor, violence, the African Diaspora, etc.—and pay tribute to historic figures... Read more