WHEN THE ARTIST Judith Godwin died on May 29 in her ninety-second year, the art world lost the last living member of a generation of women Abstract Expressionists, a group of artists largely overlooked in favor of their male peers. I lost a dear friend. My connection with Judith came about through our mutual friend Julie Lawson, a London art-world personality and assistant to Sir Roland Penrose, one of the founders of the city’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. Years later, when I was living in New York, Julie introduced me to Judith, who struck me as a delightful and irreverent Southern lady.
Berry Campbell is pleased to present its first exhibition of Edward Zutrau (1922-1993) since announcing the representation of his estate in 2019. After studying and reviewing this important oeuvre, the gallery decided to dedicate its first exhibition to his abstract expressionist paintings from the 1950s. This will be the first exhibition held of Zutrau’s work since his death in 1993.
Edward Zutrau: Mandarin (Paintings from the 1950s) opens at Berry Campbell, New York, on June 3, 2021 and continues through July 2, 2021.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
An artist for whom life and art were intertwined, Edward Zutrau (1922-1993) worked with dedication, energy, and intensity throughout a long career lasting from the 1940s through the early 1990s. While he resided mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan, his travels had an important impact on his creative development, especially the five years he spent in Japan, where his art received a significant amount of appreciation and recognition. Blending p
Celebrate Gemini Season With Works From the Artnet Gallery Network That Capture the Sign’s Dual Nature
Check out these artworks that encapsulate the bubbly and busy spirit of the Gemini.
Gemini Summer Secret (Seven portraits of the actress Saoirse Ronan). Courtesy of Rosenbaum Contemporary.
The third sign in the zodiac calendar, Gemini, is represented by celestial twins, and those born under the sign (May 21 June 20) are said to possess two unique sides to their personalities.
Geminis are upbeat and voraciously intellectual. They love to have a finger in every pie, but need to float from passion to passion since their attentions shift at any given moment. Those in the art world may be hyphenates, like collector-dealer-advisors. They are in-the-know bon vivants, likely to attend three gallery dinners a night and have studio visits lined up with artists the rest of us won’t even hear about for another six months. Famous artists who were Geminis include Diego Velázquez, Donald
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BERRY CAMPBELL PRESENTS EDWARD ZUTRAU: MANDARIN (PAINTINGS FROM THE 1950s) NEW YORK, NEW YORK, May 20, 2021 Berry Campbell is pleased to .
Berry Campbell is pleased to present
Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring. This exhibition marks the esteemed Maryland-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition title,
Soaring, is an homage to the late Dr. David Driskell’s essay,
Soaring With a Painterly Voice, written on the occasion of Burwell’s 1997 survey exhibition at Hampton University Museum, Virginia. Driskell described Burwell’s work as, “transcendental in showing stylistic diversity of earthly beauty and cosmic vision.”
Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring, organized by guest curator, Melissa Messina, highlights the dynamic transition in Burwell’s abstract visual language from two-dimensional painterly planes to three-dimensional sculptural forms. Burwell’s paintings from the late 1970s and early 1980s employ a distinctly bold palette and reference organic forms found in natural floral and earthly phenomena. The exhibition centers on the painting