Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 100 11th Ave, New York, NY, United States

"I start out, I make a mess… I have to throw myself off so I don't copy what is right on top of my mind. Because if I just draw out or paint on something, I'm just copying what's in my mind. I'm trying to get deeper than that into my unconscious… I start out […]

OVR:20c: Figuring America

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to participate in OVR:20c, Art Basel’s latest online viewing room dedicated to art made between 1900 and 1999. OVR:20c will be live from October 28 to October 31; our presentation Figuring America will be online alongside 100 international galleries and on-site at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery for the duration of this virtual […]

OVR-Sized: Masterworks of Postwar Abstraction

For our Art Basel Miami Beach online viewing room, we present OVR-Sized: Masterworks of Postwar Abstraction, featuring a rotating selection of over-sized and heroically-scaled highlights of postwar abstraction created between 1949 and 1976. Featured artists include Norman Bluhm (1921-1999), Jay DeFeo (1929-1989), Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), Sam Gilliam (b.1933), Michael Goldberg (1924-2007), Nancy Grossman (b.1940), Alfred […]

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery | Frieze 2021

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is delighted to participate in Frieze Viewing Room - presented online in conjunction with Frieze New York - exhibiting a selection of works on paper by leading abstractionists Barbara Chase-Riboud (b.1939), Ed Clark (1926-2019), Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), Sam Gilliam (b.1933), Norman Lewis (1909-1979), Alma Thomas (1891-1978), Jack Whitten (1939-2018), William T. Williams […]

Be Your Wonderful Self: The Portraits of Beauford Delaney

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 100 11th Ave, New York, NY, United States

“ Delaney repeatedly turned to art to annihilate the boundaries of fixed identity in ways that were not simply aesthetic…but also spiritual. Such ecstatic annihilations ran between his purely abstract paintings and his portraits, animating his figurative and non-figurative work alike." —Mary Campbell “ have worked terribly hard…and much has sundered and exploded, but now […]