Past
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Melvin Edwards
Lots of Work to Do November 8 - December 21, 2024 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Melvin Edwards: Lots of Work to Do, the artist’s eighth solo show with the Gallery. A focused survey of nearly sixty years of work, the exhibition takes its title from the artist’s 2019 interview with The Museum of Modern Art in which he outlines... Read more -
Carrie Moyer
Timber! September 12 - October 26, 2024 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Carrie Moyer: Timber!, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the Gallery. Moyer’s new abstract paintings and works on paper speak to the sensations provoked by social and environmental instability. The show’s title, Moyer writes, “is a warning best imagined in a comic strip. It... Read more -
Hugh Steers
Conjuring Tenderness: Paintings from 1987 June 20 - August 9, 2024 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Conjuring Tenderness: Paintings from 1987, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Hugh Steers (1962–1995). The exhibition takes its title from a 1994 quote by the artist: “It's like conjuring ... It's as if painting it will make it become real. That... Read more -
Ronny Quevedo
Composite Portals April 27 - June 15, 2024 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Ronny Quevedo: Composite Portals, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the Gallery. Positioning Andean textiles as conduits between the precolonial past and our postcolonial present, Composite Portals approaches the body as a site where history is accumulated and worn. The works in the exhibition... Read more -
Jennie C. Jones
Tonal Center March 7 - April 20, 2024 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Jennie C. Jones: Tonal Center, the artist’s third solo exhibition with the Gallery. Turning to the geometry of musical notation, hushed colors often activated by red tones, and poetic language to create evocative abstractions, Tonal Center highlights Jones’s ability to synthesize reductive compositional strategies... Read more -
Bethany Collins
Undercurrents October 26 - December 16, 2023 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Bethany Collins: Undercurrents, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the Gallery. Undercurrents features new cast paper works alongside a body of song-based drawings and compositions from the artist’s Antigone and Lost Friends series. These works mine a range of historic sources to uncover currents... Read more -
Joan Semmel
Against the Wall September 7 - October 21, 2023 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Joan Semmel: Against the Wall, the artist’s eighth exhibition with the Gallery. These new paintings—all made on the advent of Semmel’s ninth decade—continue her long-standing project of reclaiming the female nude from the objectifying lens of popular culture. Collapsing the distance between artist and... Read more -
Harmony Hammond
Accumulations April 27 - June 10, 2023 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presented Harmony Hammond: Accumulations, the artist’s sixth exhibition with the Gallery. The show featured a selection of paintings from the last three years that continue Hammond’s project of imbuing abstraction with bodily content and a corporeal narrative, disrupting the utopian myth of modernist abstraction. Underlying... Read more -
Melvin Edwards
Lines for the Poet March 3 - April 15, 2023 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presented Melvin Edwards: Lines for the Poet, the artist’s seventh one-person exhibition with the Gallery. It marks the debut of a series of never-before-shown ca. 1974 watercolors, as well as Lines for the Poet, a previously unrealized 1970 barbed wire installation. Together, these “new” historic... Read more -
Luis Camnitzer
Arbitrary Order January 19 - February 25, 2023 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presented Luis Camnitzer: Arbitrary Order, the artist’s seventh one-person exhibition with the Gallery. It debuts A to Cosmopolite, the first installment of an ongoing series in which Camnitzer annotates the dictionary using Google Maps. His combination of these reference tools questions cartography and lexicography as... Read more -
Steve Locke
your blues ain’t like mine October 27 - December 17, 2022 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presented Steve Locke: your blues ain’t like mine, the artist’s first one-person exhibition in Chelsea. Featuring recent figurative paintings and sculptures, your blues ain’t like mine takes its title from Bebe Moore Campbell’s landmark novel of the same name. Like Campbell’s 1992 text, Locke’s exhibition... Read more -
Ronny Quevedo
entre aquí y allá September 8 - October 15, 2022 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Ronny Quevedo: entre aquí y allá, the Gallery’s first exhibition of the artist’s work. Featuring a new sculpture and works on muslin and paper, entre aquí y allá elaborates on Quevedo’s personal trajectory and interest in cartography and migration. Through compositions that utilize dressmaking... Read more -
To Name a Place: Contemporary Landscape
June 23 - August 5, 2022 New York Participating artists: Miya Ando Luis Camnitzer Mel Chin Justine Fisher Coco Fusco Valeska Soares Ryan Trecartin Arnie Zimmerman Alexander Gray Associates presents To Name a Place: Contemporary Landscape, a group exhibition organized by independent New York-based curator Anna Stothart. Through its title, which references the poetic practice of marking, remembering,... Read more -
Lorraine O'Grady
Body Is the Ground of My Experience April 28 - June 11, 2022 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York announced Lorraine O’Grady: Body Is the Ground of My Experience, an exhibition of the artist’s pivotal 1991 black-and-white photomontages. Drawing on formal strategies of Surrealism and on O’Grady’s own visceral, nuanced engagement with aesthetics, representation, and cultural history, these diptychs are both a turning point,... Read more -
Hassan Sharif
Political Paintings (2008–2009) March 17 - April 23, 2022 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presented Hassan Sharif: Political Paintings (2008–2009). While Sharif (1951–2016) is best known for his sculptural compositions, he was a dedicated painter—insisting, “It is so easy now for me to give up painting and make objects, but time and time again I feel painting is important.”... Read more -
Valeska Soares
Broken Year January 13 - February 26, 2022 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Broken Year, Valeska Soares’s third one-person presentation with the Gallery. Conceived as a calendar that marks the artist’s experience of the passage of time, Broken Year is Soares’s response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The work takes the shape of a gallery-wide installation organized as a... Read more -
Ricardo Brey
Blue Shore November 4 - December 18, 2021 New York Alexander Gray Associates presents Blue Shore, the Gallery’s second one-person exhibition of work by Ricardo Brey (b.1955, Cuba). Since the late 1970s, Brey’s practice has examined the origins and nature of humankind’s space in the world. Working across drawing, sculpture, and installation, Brey is concerned with exploring philosophical concepts like... Read more -
Jennie C. Jones
New Compositions September 9 - October 23, 2021 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presented Jennie C. Jones: New Compositions , an exhibition of 2021 paintings and drawings. In these works, Jones continues to explore the perception of sound within the visual arts while experimenting with new materials. Unlike earlier Acoustic Panel Paintings, which utilized noise-absorbing foam panels,... Read more -
Subliminal Horizons
July 1 - August 13, 2021 New York Subliminal Horizons New York July 1 – August 14, 2021 Alexander Gray Associates presented Subliminal Horizons, 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... Read more -
Joan Semmel
A Balancing Act April 15 - June 12, 2021 New York 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 -
Hugh Steers
Strange State of Being February 18 - April 3, 2021 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Strange State of Being, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Hugh Steers (1962–1995). A figurative painter, the artist was diagnosed with HIV in 1987, ultimately succumbing to AIDS-related complications in 1995 at the age of 32. The Gallery’s show takes its... Read more -
Harmony Hammond
Crossings November 12, 2020 - January 30, 2021 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presented Crossings, its fourth exhibition of work by Harmony Hammond (b.1944). Featuring paintings dating from 2018—2020, the show’s large-scale canvases boast built-up surfaces that further refine the artist’s interest in “material engagement,” expanding and subverting modernist abstraction to bring social and political content into the... Read more -
Between the Lines
September 11 - October 17, 2020 New York Alexander Gray Associates, New York presented Between the Lines, a group exhibition of recent and historic sculptures and works on paper by Luis Camnitzer, Jennie C. Jones, Hassan Sharif, Valeska Soares, and Jack Whitten. Borrowing its title from a 2013 piece by Camnitzer, the show juxtaposes each artist’s distinct visual... Read more -
Betty Parsons
Heated Sky February 27 - August 14, 2020 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its second exhibition of works by Betty Parsons (1900–1982), Heated Sky. The paintings and works on paper from the height of Parsons’ engagement with abstraction from the 1960s to mid-1970s foreground the artist’s attunement to nature and the landscape. Parsons’ keen observation of the natural world... Read more -
Luis Camnitzer
Towards an Aesthetic of Imbalance January 9 - February 15, 2020 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its sixth exhibition of Luis Camnitzer’s work, highlighting two key installations, El Mirador [The Observatory] (1996), and Territorio Libre [Free Territory] (2018). For over five decades, Camnitzer’s interdisciplinary practice has influenced discourses around Conceptualism, pedagogy, and politics. In 1988, Camnitzer represented Uruguay in the 43rd Venice... Read more -
Melvin Edwards
Painted Sculpture October 24 - December 14, 2019 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its fifth exhibition of work by Melvin Edwards (b.1937), Painted Sculpture. An influential figure in African American art, Edwards’ practice reflects his engagement with the history of race, labor, and violence, as well as with themes of the African Diaspora. The Gallery’s exhibition features historical painted... Read more -
Teresa Burga
September 5 - October 12, 2019 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its first exhibition of works by Teresa Burga (b.1935). A pioneering figure in Latin American Conceptualism, since the 1960s Burga has made works that encompass drawing, painting, sculpture, and conceptual structures that support the display of analytical data and experimental methodologies. The exhibition features a selection... Read more -
Regina Silveira
Unrealized / Não feito June 6 - July 26, 2019 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of ten unrealized projects by multidisciplinary artist Regina Silveira . Emphasizing Silveira’s ongoing formal experimentation and conceptual interventions in architecture, the works on view provide an overview of site-specific installations and public art projects that were never realized in physical space. Regina Silveira: Unrealized... Read more -
Count of Three
April 18 - May 24, 2019 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Count of Three , a survey of abstract painting from the 1960s to the present that takes structure—both formal and metaphysical—as a position to work within and against, opening onto myriad generative possibilities. Bringing together artists situated in an array of art historical, social, and cultural... Read more -
Ricardo Brey
Doble Existencia / Double Existence February 28 - April 6, 2019 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its first exhibition of work by Ricardo Brey (b. 1955), Doble Existencia / Double Existence. Born in Havana, Cuba, Brey has lived and worked in Ghent, Belgium since 1990. From the late 1970s onwards, Brey’s practice, which spans drawing, sculpture, and installation, has focused on his... Read more -
Joan Semmel
A Necessary Elaboration January 10 - February 16, 2019 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented A Necessary Elaboration, an exhibition of new work by Joan Semmel (b.1932), in its fifth exhibition with the artist. In paintings made during the last two years, Semmel continued her investigation of the nude self-portrait, in a series of large-scale canvases featuring the artist’s body as... Read more -
Lorraine O'Grady
Cutting Out CONYT October 25 - December 15, 2018 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Cutting Out CONYT, an exhibition of new work by Lorraine O’Grady (b.1934). Featuring a selection of prints from Cutting Out CONYT (1977/2017), in O’Grady’s words, the show revealed her ongoing commitment to “establishing the diptych as a ceaseless conversation of difference.” Cutting Out CONYT returns to... Read more -
Frank Bowling
Make It New September 6 - October 13, 2018 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its first exhibition of work by Frank Bowling OBE, RA (b.1934), Frank Bowling: Make it New. Born in British Guiana, Bowling maintains studios in London and New York. For over five decades, his practice has been defined by its integration of autobiography and postcolonial geopolitics into... Read more -
Hugh Steers
The Nullities of Life June 6 - July 20, 2018 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its third exhibition of work by Hugh Steers (b.1962—d.1995), The Nullities of Life. Before his death at 32 from AIDS related complications, Steers created allegorical images that captured the emotional and political tenor of New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Embracing representational painting... Read more -
Harmony Hammond
Inappropriate Longings April 19 - May 25, 2018 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its third exhibition of work by Harmony Hammond (b.1944), Harmony Hammond: Inappropriate Longings. Featuring an installation and a selection of mixed media paintings and works on paper, the exhibition highlighted the artist’s practice during the 1990s. These works’ use of materials as visual metaphors for desire,... Read more -
Kay Rosen
Stirring Wirds February 22 - April 7, 2018 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Kay Rosen: Stirring Wirds, the artist’s first exhibition with the Gallery. Focused on recent work, the exhibition underscored a political conscience that grounds Rosen’s five decade career exploring the use of language and text. Rosen’s work mines the visual characteristics of words and letters, typography, and... Read more -
Hassan Sharif
Semi-Systems January 4 - February 10, 2018 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Hassan Sharif: Semi Systems, the Gallery’s fourth exhibition of work by the artist (b.1951, Iran – d.2016, Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Focused on Sharif’s use of the grid, geometry, and repetitive gesture, the exhibition includes work in a variety of media made as early as 1982... Read more -
Valeska Soares
Neither Here Nor There November 1 - December 16, 2017 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Neither Here Nor There, Valeska Soares' first exhibition with the Gallery. The artist, who has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 1992, has maintained deep connections to her native Brazil while positioning herself in New York’s multi-faceted art scene. With the works on view in the... Read more -
Polly Apfelbaum
The Potential of Women September 7 - October 21, 2017 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Polly Apfelbaum: The Potential of Women, the artist’s first exhibition at the Gallery. The exhibition featured all new work, including gouache drawings, hand-woven rugs, and wall-mounted ceramics. The key visual motif comes from the 1963 book, The Potential of Woman, published in conjunction with a symposium... Read more -
Betty Parsons
Invisible Presence May 25 - July 14, 2017 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its first exhibition of work by Betty Parsons (b.1900, New York City, NY – d.1982, Southold, NY), since recently becoming the representative of the Estate. The exhibition featured work from the early 1920s through 1981, tracing her artistic development from realist sculpture to her experimentation with... Read more -
Melvin Edwards
In Oklahoma April 13 - May 20, 2017 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Melvin Edwards: In Oklahoma, the artist’s fifth solo-exhibition at the Gallery, featuring recent sculptures. This exhibition brought together the artist’s first new body of work since his 2015 retrospective Melvin Edwards: Five Decades, and revealed his knowledge of global history related to Africa and the diaspora... Read more -
Luis Camnitzer
Short Stories February 23 - April 1, 2017 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Luis Camnitzer: Short Stories, featuring new work in a variety of media, including: video, printmaking, and modified readymade objects. For his fifth solo-exhibition at the Gallery, Camnitzer employed his characteristic wit to investigate notions of time, creating open narratives for viewer engagement, redefining established systems, and... Read more -
Sergei Eisenstein
Drawings 1931–1948 January 7 - February 11, 2017 New York Alexander Gray Associates in collaboration with Matthew Stephenson presented a rare private collection of drawings by the Russian filmmaker and theorist, Sergei Eisenstein on view for the first time in the Americas. These sexually explicit drawings, completed between 1931–1948, span the period of his travels in Mexico and the United... Read more -
Siah Armajani
October 27 - December 17, 2016 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented drawings, models, and sculptures by Siah Armajani from his ongoing “Tomb Series” (1972–2016). The Series pays tribute to philosophers, activists, poets, and writers who have informed and inspired Armajani’s art and ideology. This was the second exhibition of his Tombs at the Gallery, and the group... Read more -
Joan Semmel
New Work September 8 - October 15, 2016 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Joan Semmel: New Work, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings. In this body of work, Semmel explores a central motif in her practice: her own likeness as a site to consider the state of the aging female body as an active, potent vessel for life... Read more -
Haptic
July 7 - August 12, 2016 New York Haptic: of or relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the senses of touch and proprioception. Alexander Gray Associates presented Haptic, featuring work by artists Polly Apfelbaum, Amy Bessone, Alexandre da Cunha, Leonardo Drew, Melvin Edwards, Ann Hamilton, Harmony Hammond,... Read more -
Harmony Hammond
May 19 - June 25, 2016 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its second exhibition of work by Harmony Hammond (b.1944), including paintings, monotypes and ink drawings dating from 2014 to the present. A pioneer of feminist and queer discourse, Hammond’s earliest feminist work combined gender politics with post-minimal concerns of materials and process, frequently occupying a space... Read more -
Hassan Sharif
April 7 - May 14, 2016 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented recent work by Hassan Sharif (b.1951), featuring sculptures and woven assemblages. Recognized as a pioneer of conceptual art and experimental practice in the United Arab Emirates over the past four decades, Sharif has transgressed traditional frameworks for art making by extending his practice to performance, installation,... Read more -
Regina Silveira
February 18 - March 26, 2016 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of work by multimedia artist Regina Silveira. The works on view emphasize Silveira’s use of graphic visual language through accumulation and skewed perspective to transform our perception of spaces. Throughout more than four decades, Silveira, a critical figure in Brazilian conceptual art, has investigated... Read more -
Coco Fusco
January 9 - February 6, 2016 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of work by interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco, screening for the first time together a survey of her seminal videos created over the past two decades. Premiering was her latest installation Confidencial, Autores Firmantes (2015), which examines Cuba’s systematic censorship of key literary... Read more -
Passage
October 29 - December 12, 2015 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Passage, an exhibition featuring work by Ai Weiwei, Siah Armajani, Luis Camnitzer, Valie Export, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Mona Hatoum, Robert Longo, Ana Mendieta, Dennis Oppenheim, Regina Silveira, and Lorna Simpson. Together, the artworks trace the passage of time, collective and personal memory, histories, and diasporas. Ai Weiwei’s... Read more -
Jack Tworkov
Mark and Grid, 1931 – 1982 September 3 - October 24, 2015 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Jack Tworkov: Mark and Grid, 1931–1982, its first exhibition of work by Jack Tworkov (b.1900, Biala, Poland—d.1982, Provincetown, MA), since recently becoming the representative of the artist’s Estate. Jack Tworkov: Mark and Grid examined the artist’s stylistic progression featuring work from different decades, and highlighted his... Read more -
Vera Neumann
Vera Paints a Rainbow July 9 - August 7, 2015 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Vera Paints a Rainbow, an exhibition of artworks by Vera Neumann (b.1907, Stamford, CT – d.1993, North Tarrytown, NY), created between the 1960s and 1980s. The presentation focused on the artist’s use of color as means to express emotions through compositions characterized by a colorful palette.... Read more -
Lorraine O'Grady
May 28 - June 27, 2015 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of artworks by Lorraine O’Grady, focusing on two early series that are foundations for O’Grady’s performance and critical development, representing two approaches to finding one’s personal and artistic self. The exhibition debuted photographs of O’Grady’s performance work, Rivers, First Draft (1982/2015) and featured selections... Read more -
Joan Semmel
Across Five Decades April 2 - May 21, 2015 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented a survey of work by Joan Semmel, featuring paintings across five decades, from abstraction to figurative. Semmel’s artistic practice has consistently questioned female representation and subjectivity, emphasizing the possibility for female autonomy through the body. A graduate of Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, and the Art Student’s... Read more -
Luis Camnitzer
The Mediocrity of Beauty February 19 - March 28, 2015 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of artwork by Luis Camnitzer, featuring works in a variety of media dating from 1968 to the present. An accompanying catalogue was published in both English and Spanish, featuring the artist’s essay The Mediocrity of Beauty (2010). The artworks on view conveyed Camnitzer’s skepticism... Read more -
Hugh Steers
Day Light January 8 - February 14, 2015 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of work by Hugh Steers (b.1962, Washington, DC – 1995, New York), including paintings and works on paper produced between 1990 and 1992 that exemplify Steers’ virtuous use of light and color to render allegorical and humanist images. The featured works illustrated his creative... Read more -
Melvin Edwards
October 30 - December 13, 2014 New York “The use of African words as titles of my sculpture is to extend the practical and philosophical values of the large quantity of esthetic possibility in art for now and the future.” ––Melvin Edwards Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of work by Melvin Edwards reflecting his engagement with and... Read more -
Siah Armajani
The Tomb Series September 4 - October 18, 2014 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its first exhibition of work by Siah Armajani, featuring large sculptures, models, and drawings from the “Tomb Series” (1972–2014). The Series pays tribute to twenty-five philosophers, activists, poets, and critical writers who have been foundational voices to Armajani’s art and ideology, among them Theodor Adorno, Walter... Read more -
Vera Neumann
Vera Paints a Summer Bouquet June 26 - August 12, 2014 New York Vera Paints a Summer Bouquet Alexander Gray Associates presented its inaugural exhibition of artworks by Vera Neumann (b. 1907, Stamford, CT – d. 1993, North Tarrytown, NY), Vera Paints a Summer Bouquet, a selection of iconic watercolors and drawings of Neumann’s primary muse: bountiful, abundant, and joyful flowers. These artworks,... Read more -
Tomislav Gotovac
Public and Intimate May 22 - June 21, 2014 New York Tomislav Gotovac: Public and Intimate Curated by Zarko Vijatovic Organized in conjunction with Galerie Frank Elbaz and Tomislav Gotovac Institute Curator Gallery Talk: Thursday, May 22, 2014, 6:00pm Alexander Gray Associates presented its inaugural exhibition of Tomislav Gotovac (b.1937, Sombor, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Serbia – d. 2010, Zagreb, Croatia),... Read more -
Heidi Bucher
April 9 - May 17, 2014 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its inaugural exhibition of Heidi Bucher, featuring emblematic works from the 1980s and 1990s. Bucher (b.1926, Winterthur, Switzerland – d.1993, Brunnen, Switzerland) maintained an important, but overlooked practice dedicated to the exploration of materiality, space, and the body. The exhibition focuses on Bucher’s “skinnings,” the works... Read more -
Overcoming the Modern
Dansaekhwa: The Korean Monochrome Movement February 19 - March 29, 2014 New York Overcoming the Modern Dansaekhwa: The Korean Monochrome Movement Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath Chung Sang-hwa Ha Chong-hyun Hur Hwang Lee Dong-Youb Lee Ufan Park Seo-bo Yun Hyong-keun Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Curators' Walkthrough: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 7:00 pm Alexander Gray Associates... Read more -
Hassan Sharif
January 8 - February 14, 2014 New York Artist Conversation: Friday, January 17, 2014, 6:00 pm Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition featuring recent works by Hassan Sharif, accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalog and a conversation between the artist and independent curator Murtaza Vali. Sharif (b.1951, Dubai, United Arab Emirates) is recognized as a pioneer of conceptual art... Read more -
Harmony Hammond
October 23 - December 7, 2013 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its inaugural exhibition with Harmony Hammond, her first one-person exhibition in New York since the 1990s. Emphasizing Hammond’s long-standing commitment to process-based abstraction, the exhibition includes paintings and works on paper from the past five decades, with a focus on recent works. A fully-illustrated catalogue accompanies... Read more -
Jack Whitten
September 11 - October 12, 2013 New York Read more -
Regina Silveira
June 5 - July 26, 2013 New York Spotlighting recent and historic works, this third exhibition at the Gallery traced Regina Silveira’s experimentation with a variety of graphic media investigating political themes and formal practice. Silveira began her exploration of printmaking processes in the 1970s, and her ground-breaking portfolio, Middle Class & Co. (1971) provides the first example... Read more -
Joan Semmel
April 17 - May 25, 2013 New York The exhibition featured the works of Joan Semmel, including recent paintings and mixed media collages from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Together, the paintings and works on paper demonstrate Semmel’s consistent formal and compositional point of view, providing insight into her experimental representation of the female body. Joan Semmel’s... Read more -
Broken Spaces: Cut, Mark, and Gesture
February 27 - April 6, 2013 New York Broken Spaces: Cut, Mark, and Gesture Luis Camnitzer Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Harmony Hammond Lorraine O'Grady Hassan Sharif Jack Whitten Inaugurating its representation of Harmony Hammond, Alexander Gray Associates presented Broken Spaces: Cut, Mark, and Gesture, a group exhibition examining the parallel conceptual and formal practices of Luis Camnitzer, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Harmony... Read more -
Hugh Steers
January 12 - February 16, 2013 New York Alexander Gray Associates was pleased to present its first solo exhibition of works by Hugh Steers, featuring paintings and works on paper produced from 1987–1993. Throughout his career, cut dramatically short by AIDS at the age of 32, Steers was celebrated for his allegorical painting that captured the emotional and... Read more -
Melvin Edwards
November 2 - December 22, 2012 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented its second exhibition with Melvin Edwards, spanning the trajectory of Edwards’ nearly 50-year career. Concurrently, Edwards is a featured artist in the celebrated exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 on view at MoMA/PS1, organized by Kellie Jones for the Hammer Museum, Los... Read more -
Luis Camnitzer
September 12 - October 20, 2012 New York Alexander Gray Associates was pleased to present its third individual exhibition with Luis Camnitzer, whose contributions since the 1960s to the development of Latin American contemporary art and international Conceptual Art have garnered significant recognition in recent years. The exhibition in the Gallery’s newly expanded space includes the premiere of... Read more -
Cadmus, Steers, Warhol
June 8 - July 20, 2012 New York Paul Cadmus Hugh Steers Andy Warhol To inaugurate its representation of the Estate of Hugh Steers, Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition contextualizing his work with two generational predecessors, reflecting progressing artistic and cultural concerns, and charting cultural reception to figurative work representing three slices of 20th Century Gay experience.... Read more -
Lorraine O'Grady
New Worlds April 11 - May 25, 2012 New York Lorraine O'Grady New Worlds Alexander Gray Associates presented Lorraine O’Grady’s second exhibition with the Gallery, entitled New Worlds. On view was the artist’s recent video work, Landscape (Western Hemisphere), 2011, in conversation with two photomontages from her iconic BodyGround series, conceived in 1991 and re-formatted in 2012. The Fir-Palm (1991/2012),... Read more -
Coco Fusco
The Empty Plaza / La Plaza Vacia February 22 - March 31, 2012 New York Coco Fusco The Empty Plaza / La Plaza Vacia Alexander Gray Associates presented New York-based artist Coco Fusco’s first solo exhibition with the Gallery. The cornerstone of the exhibition, The Empty Plaza/La Plaza Vacia is a single-channel video. Inspired by the organized public protests in the Middle East beginning in... Read more -
Hassan Sharif
January 5 - February 11, 2012 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Emirati artist Hassan Sharif's first solo exhibition in the United States. To introduce his work to a New York audience, the Gallery organized a micro-retrospective of works spanning 30 years, including rare photo-documentation of early performance- and process-based projects, experimental works on paper, and two sculptural... Read more -
Dawit L. Petros
Mahber Shaw'ate (Association of 7) October 26 - December 10, 2011 New York The Dawit L. Petros exhibition brought together photo-based works from Petros’ series, Mahber Shaw'ate (Association of 7). Initiated during the artist's 2009 Studio Museum in Harlem residency, Petros continues this series to explore landscape as a metaphor for identity and diaspora by bringing together his East African heritage with references... Read more -
Jack Whitten
September 7 - October 15, 2011 New York Read more -
Regina Silveira
May 26 - July 29, 2011 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented the Gallery’s second exhibition with the Brazilian artist, Regina Silveira. Since the 1960s, Silveira’s work has defied genre, moving between forms of installation, printmaking, sculpture and photography to explore visual distortion, perspective and scale. For her exhibition at the Gallery, Silveira exhibited her signature vinyl-decal mural-installations.... Read more -
Joan Semmel
April 13 - May 21, 2011 New York Alexander Gray Associates was pleased to debut recent self-portraits by Joan Semmel, in the Gallery’s first solo exhibition with this acclaimed artist. Working consistently with figurative painting for over four decades, Semmel is primarily associated with the establishment of the Feminist art movement in the 1970s. In the exhibition at... Read more -
Paul Ramírez Jonas
February 23 - April 2, 2011 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of recent works by New York-based artist Paul Ramírez Jonas. In his second exhibition with the Gallery, Ramírez Jonas continued his ongoing inquiries of social contingency, collective memory, and common space. In recent years, Ramírez Jonas has been particularly involved with new forms of... Read more -
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
January 7 - February 12, 2011 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Jeremy GIlbert-Rolfe. In his second exhibition with the Gallery, the exhibition showcased three works, underscoring the artist’s deliberate and disciplined approach to painting. Anchoring the exhibition was an early painting by Glbert-Rolfe, Some Difference (1986). This abstraction, with... Read more -
Bruce Yonemoto
October 27 - December 11, 2010 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Bruce Yonemoto (b. 1949, San Jose, CA). On view are a recent video projection and a series of photographs, included in Yonemoto’s 2010 solo exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum. The video Before I Close My... Read more -
Melvin Edwards
Sculptures 1964-2010 September 8 - October 16, 2010 New York Alexander Gray Associates was pleased to present its first exhibition of Melvin Edwards’ sculpture. The exhibition spans four decades, including his influential series, Lynch Fragments (on going from 1964) and a selection of large-scale works from the 1960s and 1970s—all of which convey Edwards’ importance both as an American modernist... Read more -
Landscape as an Attitude
June 23 - July 30, 2010 New York Read more -
Ann Carlson / Mary Ellen Strom
Meadowlark May 5 - June 12, 2010 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented Meadowlark (2008), a six-channel video installation by Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom, in collaboration with Bently Spang. Meadowlark is a meditation on the American landscape as an ecological, political, and visual entity. The video installation reinterprets Frederic Remington’s seminal Western painting, Indian Simulating Buffalo (1908).... Read more -
Luis Camnitzer
Memorial March 17 - April 24, 2010 New York Luis Camnitzer's exhibition, Memorial at Alexander Gray Associates consisted of a large-scale new work that the artist completed in 2009. In this 195-part artwork, Camnitzer replicates the Montevideo telephone directory, in which he has meticulously inserted the names of the Disappeared in Uruguay. During the military dictatorship that ruled the... Read more -
What's Left: Artworks Made by a Public
February 19 - March 30, 2010 New York What's Left: Artworks Made by a Public Alexander Gray Associates Karen Finley, Alison Knowles, Lorraine O’Grady, Paul Ramírez Jonas Inaugurating Alexander Gray Associates’ new gallery space on the second floor of 508 West 26 Street, What’s Left: Art Made by a Public showcased four significant artworks made since the 1960s... Read more -
J. Morgan Puett
{of, with, as, for, them, and, it} Workstylings January 6 - February 6, 2010 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented a project by artist and fashion designer J. Morgan Puett. Based on Puett’s concept of “workstyles”, an integrative approach to artmaking, lifestyle, sustainability, and industrial life, the project activated the gallery as a hybridized exhibition and studio space, convening mechanism and showroom. In the gallery space,... Read more -
Regina Silveira
October 28 - December 19, 2009 New York Alexander Gray Associates Alexander Gray Associates was pleased to announce Regina Silveira’s first exhibition with the Gallery. A key influencer in the development of Latin American contemporary art, Silveira has exhibited since the 1970s. Through installation, sculpture, print and photography, she is renown for her parodic explorations of perspective and... Read more -
Jack Whitten
September 9 - October 27, 2009 New York Read more -
John Kelly
The Mirror Stages: Self-Portraits, 1979–2009 May 20 - July 17, 2009 New York John Kelly The Mirror Stages: Self-Portraits, 1979–2009 Alexander Gray Associates Alexander Gray Associates presented a project with renowned performance artist, John Kelly. Since emerging on the East Village club scene in the early 1980s, Kelly’s enigmatic performance work has been presented at international venues and festivals. His performance work, blending... Read more -
Paul Ramírez Jonas
April 1 - May 9, 2009 New York Paul Ramírez Jonas presented a large-scale performative installation work, Paper Moon (I Create as I Speak), which was presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT) in 2008. Consisting of sheets of paper tiled to represent an image of the moon, upon closer inspection, the design is made up... Read more -
Cary Leibowitz
Ye Olde Candyass Muggery February 18 - March 19, 2009 New York Ye Olde Candyass Muggery, consisted of 28 multiples, taking the form of coffee mugs, wine glasses, espresso cups and highballs. Leibowitz’ mass-produced multiples have been widely collected and anticipated since his first New York exhibition twenty years ago, when he began exhibiting under the moniker Candyass. Where previous installations have... Read more -
Propose: Works on Paper from the 1970s
January 15 - February 14, 2009 New York Read more -
Kay Rosen
No Noose Is Good Noose November 19, 2008 - January 10, 2009 New York Alexander Gray Associates in association with Yvon Lambert, New York and Paris Exhibited was Kay Rosen’s 1983 text-based installation, No Noose is Good Noose, and a related unpublished artist book Mined, both of which are key works in Rosen’s development as an innovator with text as image. The exhibition ran... Read more -
Dawit L. Petros
October 15 - November 15, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates Dawit Petros' exhibition debuted new photographic works created in Eritrea and Kenya. These resulting photographs, of East African landscape, architecture, and residents, are highly formalized through Petros’ lens. His images are further distanced through their presentation; mounted under darkened Plexiglas, and arranged in grids of multiple sizes,... Read more -
Lorraine O'Grady
Miscegenated Family Album September 10 - October 11, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates Lorraine O’Grady’s iconic series, Miscegenated Family Album is her 1994 photo-installation of cibachrome diptychs. Originating from her 1980 performance work, Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline, this 16-part photographic series juxtaposes appropriated images from O’Grady’s family history with images of iconic Ancient Egyptian sculptures. The image pairs draw uncanny aesthetic parallels,... Read more -
Mildred's Lane
Curated by J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion June 18 - September 6, 2008 New York Mildred's Lane Curated by J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion Alexander Gray Associates Diana Balmori , Jorge Colombo, Moyra Davey, Mark Dion, Hope Ginsburg, John Haskell, Jeffrey Jenkins, Athena Kokoronis, Josiah McElheny, Monique Milleson, J. Morgan Puett, Rebecca Purcell, Jason Simon, Allison Smith, Brian Tolle, Robert Williams, Nitin Jayaswal, Amy... Read more -
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
April 30 - June 14, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates In the four abstract paintings in this exhibition, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe revisits the grid and the vertically oriented canvas. The grid, which possessed a more architectural look when it first appeared in his paintings in the late 1970s and early 80s, becomes a mesmerizing force in new paintings... Read more -
Luis Camnitzer
March 19 - April 26, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates Since the late 1960s, Luis Camnitzer has created works in a variety of media—including installation, printmaking, drawing, and photography—that expose our collective indifference to the violence governments inflict on individuals. A pioneer of conceptual art, Camnitzer critiques current political realities with a perspective informed by his first-hand... Read more -
Bruce Yonemoto
February 6 - March 15, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates Continuing his ongoing research and interest in Hollywood cinema and its role in shaping cultural identity, Bruce Yonemoto presented a group of photographs that examine American wars, heroism, and ideas of national building. In the series Untitled (NSEW), Bruce Yonemoto appropriates American Civil War-era photographic portraiture. Such... Read more -
Ann Carlson / Mary Ellen Strom
December 14, 2007 - February 2, 2008 New York Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of video works by Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom. Ann Carlson's award-winning, performance-based works are renowned for expanding the boundaries of dance and choreography. Collaborative in content and process, Mary Ellen Strom's video works blur the line between activism and art history, media... Read more -
Karen Finley
Nation Building October 24 - December 1, 2007 New York The exhibition included two bodies of drawings, in Finley’s signature pen-and-ink style. In the first group, The Dreams of Laura Bush, Finley channels the First Lady’s unconscious through illustrations and text that imagines inner psychological conflicts, incorporating sexual fantasy, popular culture, and current political events. Imagining the personal lives of... Read more -
Jack Whitten
September 13 - October 20, 2007 New York Read more -
Bryan Jackson
Bruce Yonemoto Selects: Bryan Jackson June 27 - September 8, 2007 New York Alexander Gray Associates Alexander Gray Associates artist Bruce Yonemoto selected Bryan Jackson, a filmmaker, theater director and artist whose work have been celebrated on the Gay and Lesbian Film circuit. Jackson’s film, Softly, a highly stylized short film that traces desire, sensuality and romance is the centerpiece of his exhibition.... Read more -
Dawit L. Petros
June 27 - September 8, 2007 New York Dawit L. Petros’ exhibition included photography and video, exploring conceptual and cultural concerns surrounding landscape, ideas of the post-Colonial, cultural transformation and location. These are discrete works, which are connected thematically. Each draw from specific histories, sources and sites, including locations in Northern Canada, the “American West', and Africa. The... Read more -
Kathe Burkhart
The Liz Taylor Series: Selections from 1983–2007 May 16 - June 23, 2007 New York Alexander Gray Associates Elizabeth Taylor’s multiple personae–actress, vixen, Hollywood royalty, serial wife and divorcée, party girl, charitable humanitarian, entrepreneur, rebel, dominant woman–acts as a media-based mirror of contemporary female identity. For Kathe Burkhart, Taylor becomes a doppelganger in her paintings, in which tabloid, paparazzi shots and publicity stills from Taylor’s... Read more -
Jo Baer
April 4 - May 12, 2007 New York Alexander Gray Associates In her exhibition at Alexander Gray Associates, Jo Baer presented four large-scale works, which she has referred to as “image constellations.” These paintings, shown for the first time in the United States, incorporate imagery drawn from a range of historical, mythological, cultural and natural sources. Two paintings... Read more -
Cary Leibowitz
I Love Warhol Piss Paintings February 14 - March 31, 2007 New York Alexander Gray Associates In his exhibition at Alexander Gray Associates, Cary Leibowitz presented new paintings on wood, with works referencing Post-War American art. Happy Rainbow, Sad Rainbow is a diptych that enhances Frank Stella’s 1970s work with psychological humor, questioning identity politic branding and art market taste; I Love Warhol... Read more -
Lawrence Gipe
One Picture and the Next Three January 9 - February 10, 2007 New York Alexander Gray Associates In One Picture and the Next Three, Lawrence Gipe re-represented four archival photographic images as oil paintings, continuing his strategy of severing historical images from their original, politically-charged contexts. The 'Next Three” paintings are sourced from a compilation of photographs by David Douglas Duncan called Yankee Nomad.... Read more -
J. Morgan Puett
Wholesale: To The Trade Only, 1985–1997 October 18 - December 16, 2006 New York Puett closed her Wooster Street store in 1997, and archived all of its contents—from dresses and patterns to financial records and shipping receipts—most of which was preserved with natural beeswax. This Pompeian action was the subject of a 1998 exhibition at the Centre d’Art contemporain Kunsthalle in Fribourg, Switzerland. In... Read more
