Exhibition Dates: January 28 – February 22, 2025

Opening Reception: Thurs, January 30, 2025, 5PM-8PM

Closing Celebration: Sat, February 22, 2025, 4PM-6PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11PM-6PM

Bowery Gallery is pleased to present In Black and White, an exhibition focused on the power of these absolute elements in the drawing, painting, relief sculpture, printmaking, and collage. Fifty artists—current Bowery artists as well as others who have been members of the gallery—have contributed one work apiece.

The resulting array of 50 works will take the viewer on a special trip into the artists’ studios.  On an intimate scale—no wider than 24 inches—these images, with their “limited” palette, represent a dare for the artists—to make something complete and compelling from the bare bones of picture-making.  In mediums such as pencil or charcoal, whether executed as jotted-down suggestions from direct perception (à la Bonnard) or from the imagination in fully worked-up, highly finished compositions (à la Claude Lorrain), black and white lets the viewer into the heart of studio practice. The challenge of black-and-white, not only in drawings but also in other mediums included in the show, such as gravure, relief sculpture, and collage, is fundamental—within this essential set of coordinates, the artist can evoke the full extent of our visual experience of the world. 

Bowery Gallery has, for over 50 years, represented artists whose allegiance is to formal values and the investigation of our artistic traditions. 

Solo shows by the 30-odd artists in the gallery have been praised in the pages of The New York Times, The New Yorker, Arts, Modern Painters, Art in America, The New Criterion, and others.

In Black and White continues at Bowery Gallery through February 22, 2025.

Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 11am to 6pm.

For further information on this exhibition and Bowery Gallery, please send email to: info@bowerygallery.org   

Telephone:  646.230.6655