News Category: Exhibition

Exhibition

Charles Biederman at Menconi + Schoelkopf

May 20 - July 3, 2019

Charles Biederman’s meteoric career as an abstract painter in the 1930s saw him exhibiting alongside Alexander Calder and Charles Green Shaw, before he broke with painting entirely around 1940 in favor of a long and prolific career as a sculptor. Menconi + Schoelkopf presents a group of extraordinary canvases from this brief and powerful period as a painter, along with signal early examples of his wall-relief sculpture. Open to the public at 22 E 80th Street from May 20 through July 3, 2019.

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Thomas Hart Benton at Menconi + Schoelkopf

April 29 - May 17, 2019

Often cited, along with Grant Wood, as a founder of what would be termed Regionalism, Thomas Hart Benton found his own vernacular, infused with the Synchromist flavors of Stanton MacDonald-Wright, as well as his own sculptural-modeling interpretations of Old Master practices. Though his work was, for a period, outshined by one of his star pupils, Jackson Pollock, Benton has lost little popularity or relevance, and indeed is enjoying renewed interest for his uniquely modern look at American country life. Menconi + Schoelkopf, in collaboration with Surovek Gallery and Lester Thompson Fine Art, presents a group of major works from across Benton’s long and extraordinary career. Open to the public at 22 E 80th Street from April 29 through May 17.

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Manierre Dawson at Menconi + Schoelkopf

April 1-26

Manierre Dawson occupies a special place in American art history as one of the earliest contributors to abstract art. His influences were many, but his quasi-cubist experiments in the 1910s notably developed largely apart from any significant awareness of Picasso or Kandinsky. Difficulty in dating many of these ground-breaking works has obscured their profound originality: whether or not he was the first to summit the mountain of abstraction, his path there was uniquely his own and certainly represents an extraordinary achievement. A group of extraordinary early canvases and sculptures will be on view at the gallery at 22 E 80th Street from April 1 through April 26.

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