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 […]

Alternative Worlds: Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Claire Falkenstein, Yayoi Kusama & Alma Thomas

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

“Each new day, science provokes us to readjust and adapt to a new view of our environment. Penetration into the microcosmic and the macrocosmic reality unquestionably brings into being heroic generalizations which affect our lives to the minutest detail.”  —Claire Falkenstein   Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Alternative Worlds, a group exhibition featuring five […]

Distinctive/Instinctive: Postwar Abstract Painting

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

Featuring Charles Alston, William Baziotes, Norman Bluhm, James Brooks, Elaine de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Beauford Delaney, Claire Falkenstein, Sam Gilliam, Michael Goldberg, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Alfred Jensen, Yayoi Kusama, Alfred Leslie, Norman Lewis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Alfonso Ossorio, Richard Pousette-Dart, Milton Resnick, Alma Thomas, Mark Tobey, Jack Tworkov, Charmion von Wiegand, William T. […]

Hannelore Baron: Collages

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

To download the online exhibition catalogue, click here. “Everything I’ve done is a statement on the, as they say, human condition, and so on.  The way other people marched to Washington, or set themselves on fire, or write protest letters, or go to assassinate someone, well I’ve had all the same feelings that these people have […]

Facing Self: The Artist Revealed

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

To view the online exhibition, click here.“I felt that if the themes in my early paintings, those very specific psychological concerns, were as significant as I thought they were, then I had a rationale for figurative painting. That was a time when a figure painter needed a justification for not doing Abstract Expressionism... Abstraction symbolized […]