The Art Show Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to Benefit Henry Street Settlement

NEW YORK, NY.- On March 2, 2011, the country’s longest running national art fair, The Art Show, will open its doors at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Now in its 23rd year, The Art Show assembles the nation’s most influential and prominent art dealers to present museum quality exhibitions of art ranging from cutting-edge, 21st century works, to museum-quality pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry [...]

Galerie Lelong Presents An Exhibition of Paintings by Five Emerging and Mid-Career Artists

NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong presents Five from L.A., an exhibition of paintings by five emerging and mid-career artists—Whitney Bedford, Kirsten Everberg, Alexandra Grant, Iva Gueorguieva, and Annie Lapin—who each uniquely employ bold and saturated colors, an elusive sense of space, and fluid movement between abstraction and representation. Currently working in Los Angeles, the artists hail from diverse backgrounds and explore a variety of themes, including language, turmoil, and the fragility of memory and perception. Five from L.A. opened to [...]

New Embroidery Paintings and Sculpture by Angelo Filomeno at Galerie Lelong

NEW YORK, NY.- In The marquis and a bearded dominatrix with a cake in the oven, Angelo Filomeno presents new embroidery paintings and sculpture that exemplify his signature technique and fascination with the macabre. For the exhibition, Filomeno enlists some of his regular characters—insects, dead philosophers, grotesque objects— and incorporates elements previously unseen in his works. Fantastical and allegorical in imagery, and intricate in technique, Filomeno’s works are deeply informed by his upbringing in Italy. Filomeno learned to embroider from [...]

Nancy Spero’s Life and Work to be Commemorated in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- A public commemoration of the work and life of Nancy Spero will be held at the Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street, NY) on April 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM announced the artist’s gallery Galerie Lelong. Speakers will include: Jon Bird, Benjamin Buchloh, Donna De Salvo, Christopher Lyon, Bartomeu Mari, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kiki Smith, Robert Storr & Nora York among others. Nancy Spero, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth and [...]

Galerie Lelong Presents “Hélio Oiticica: Drawings, 1954-58″

NEW YORK, NY.- “Drawings, 1954-58″ brings together over twenty rare works by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980), a pioneer in Modernism and multi-disciplinary practice whose works-on-paper have not yet been exhibited independently. The exhibition features works from the artist’s three major drawing series: “Grupo Frente”, “Sêco”, and “Metaesquema”. “Hélio Oiticica: Drawings, 1954-58″ will be on view at Galerie Lelong from December 17, 2009, to February 6, 2010. Oiticica’s works form a bridge between painting and sculpture; furthermore, they connect [...]