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Ronald Bladen: On Site, at the Al Held Foundation in Boiceville, NY
Ronald Bladen: On Site, at the Al Held Foundation in Boiceville, NY

This summer, the Al Held Foundation will exhibit two important sculptures by Ronald Bladen on its scenic campus in the Catskill Mountains. These works of geometric abstraction in painted aluminum were created in the 1970s at a moment when Bladen deepened his exploration of form in space. The installation is a partnership between the Al Held Foundation and the Estate of Ronald Bladen, honoring the vital thirty-year friendship between these pioneers of postwar American geometric abstraction.

Nicolas Carone: Figurative Abstraction, Paintings from the 1960s
Nicolas Carone: Figurative Abstraction, Paintings from the 1960s

Nicolas Carone was driven to find suggestive narratives that embraced both the Italian tradition of figurative art and the innovations of American Abstract Expressionism. Carone’s intense early academic training could not be suppressed by the radical modernism of the 1950s and 1960s.

Cleve Gray Silver Series, 1967
Cleve Gray Silver Series, 1967

In the 1960s, Gray was making increasingly loose, increasingly explosive, monumental paintings. This is evident especially in the Silver series of 1967. This sense of freedom is evident and deliberate in these charged canvases. Gray said “I thought I should do something untoward and without the rational guidance of my paintbrush. I had nothing to lose, and I wondered what would happen; I picked up a bucket of aluminum paint and threw it at the canvas lying on the floor.”

Joel Perlman Featured in Dan's Paper
Joel Perlman Featured in Dan's Paper

A Chat With Joel Perlman in Dan's Paper

This week’s cover of Dan’s Papers features a sculpture by renowned Water Mill sculptor Joel Perlman. Here, he discusses the creation of his “Big Round II” cover sculpture, his favorite metals to sculpt with and his latest project debuting this winter.

Cleve Gray in Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960 at the Bruce Museum
Cleve Gray in Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960 at the Bruce Museum

For three decades, Connecticut was a true international center of innovation in the arts. Although turn-of-the-century landscape painting has been justly celebrated at the Bruce and elsewhere, the significance of the state’s place in the history of 20th century modernism has gone largely unnoticed. September 23, 2023 to January 7, 2024.

Roberto Caracciolo: Segnare Il Tempo, Opening at the Chiesa SS. Filippo e Giacomo in Todi, Italy
Roberto Caracciolo: Segnare Il Tempo, Opening at the Chiesa SS. Filippo e Giacomo in Todi, Italy

Roberto Caracciolo: Segnare Il Tempo at the Chiesa SS. Filippo e Giacomo in Todi, Italy.

 

Richard Anuszkiewicz: Knots and Concatenations, 1986-2020
Richard Anuszkiewicz: Knots and Concatenations, 1986-2020

The “Knots” series are among the last paintings that Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930-2020) worked on in his studio at the time of his death. This group of five, presented here for the first time, are perfect examples of illusionism-shattering flatness. As John Dorfman points out in the forthcoming catalogue, the third dimension is present, but in an ambiguous, even paradoxical way. The squares and rectangles are made up of strips that overlap, going over and under each other. Colors seem to oscillate back and forth, each seeming to be in front for a moment and then recede to allow the other to come forward.

Ronald Bladen: Angle/Edge/Plane at SUNY Westchester Community College
Ronald Bladen: Angle/Edge/Plane at SUNY Westchester Community College

This fall, The WCC Art Gallery presents Angle / Edge / Plane, The Sculpture of Ronald Bladen (1918-1988), on view from September 8, 2022, through November 30, 2022. Ronald Bladen was an American painter and sculptor renowned for his large-scale sculptures. On exhibit are scale models of Bladen's larger work, accompanied by hand-drafted engineering drawings.

Art and Spirituality at the Fourth Universalist Society - Kiki Smith and Faith Ringgold
Art and Spirituality at the Fourth Universalist Society - Kiki Smith and Faith Ringgold

The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York is pleased to present its second art installation with works by world renowned artists; Faith Ringgold and Kiki Smith. Installed above the altar and in the chapel, the artworks seek to align the values of the congregation with the sacred space. The Fourth Universalist Society is located at 160 Central Park West, at 76th Street.

 

Richard Anuszkiewicz featured in Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Richard Anuszkiewicz featured in Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Richard Anuszkiewicz’s Centered Green (1979) is featured in Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

 

Riverfront Museum in Peoria, Illinois acquires Ronald Bladen's "Cosmic Seed"
Riverfront Museum in Peoria, Illinois acquires Ronald Bladen's "Cosmic Seed"
Remembering Maureen Howard, 1930 - 2022
Remembering Maureen Howard, 1930 - 2022

In well-reviewed works like “Natural History” and “A Lover’s Almanac,” she was intent, a fellow writer said, on “making the novel do and hold more.”

Maureen Howard, who first drew wide attention in 1965 with her novel “Bridgeport Bus,” which came to be regarded as a precursor to second-wave feminism, and went on to write ambitious, well-regarded books for 45 more years, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 91.

Architectural Digest: Central Park Tower in Association with Lauren Rottet Studios
Architectural Digest: Central Park Tower in Association with Lauren Rottet Studios

Today Architectural Digest takes you high above Midtown Manhattan to tour a $38.5 million home on the 92nd floor of Central Park Tower, the tallest residential building in the world. Designer Lauren Rottet explains the choices she made in creating the interiors as we have a look around this super-luxurious New York property with eye-popping views of Central Park.

Loretta Howard Gallery specializes in classic Post War American art with an emphasis on artists who came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Brooklyn Rail - Sacred Spaces: Art and Spirituality review by Mary Ann Caws
The Brooklyn Rail - Sacred Spaces: Art and Spirituality review by Mary Ann Caws

Loretta Howard and her gallery have planned this amazing and ongoing celebration of the way in which art can enhance an entire life of religious ritual. This immediate burgeoning of new work, relating, in the case of the great Greek artist Antonakos, to Byzantium and the sacred gold background, responds to just what we might have been suffering lately, in view of the crises in the world beyond the building whose art we are celebrating.

David Row: The Shape of Things at CMCA, Rockland, Maine
David Row: The Shape of Things at CMCA, Rockland, Maine

The Shape of Things is the first major exhibition of painter and master printmaker David Row’s work in his home state. Born in Portland, in 1949, Row is a multi-generational Mainer. His father’s family settled in Perry, a small town in Washington County near the Canadian border, in the early 19th century. Row visited the family homestead many times as a child and thought of it “as the wildest place I’d ever seen.” 

In his teen years, Row’s family began summering on Cushing Island in Casco Bay, first in a series of rented cottages, then purchasing a house in 1968. Accessible only by private boat and with no vehicular traffic allowed, Cushing is a world apart. In the early 1990s, Row and his wife Kathleen built their own house and studio on the island. “The studio became a major part of my working life from the summer of 1994 to the present,” Row says, “I live and work there now for five months each year.”

Brooklyn Rail: New Social Environment - David Row with Carter Ratcliff, Register for Friday July 9th, 2021
Brooklyn Rail: New Social Environment - David Row with Carter Ratcliff, Register for Friday July 9th, 2021

Artist David Row joins poet and art critic Carter Ratcliff for a conversation.

A Tribute to Barbara Rose in the Brooklyn Rail
A Tribute to Barbara Rose in the Brooklyn Rail

In Memoriam
A Tribute to Barbara Rose
(1936–2020)

Ronald Bladen Traveling Exhibition
Ronald Bladen Traveling Exhibition

Angle/Edge/Plane: The Sculpture of Ronald Bladen is a collection of models, drawings, and photographs from the estate of Ronald Bladen and the Loretta Howard Gallery in New York. This exhibition was organized The Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture, University of Tennessee Knoxville, and has travelled to Herron School of Art + Design, Purdue University, Indiana, Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria Illinois, and The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art , University of Alabama.

Richard Anuszkiewicz in Art & Antiques Magazine
Richard Anuszkiewicz in Art & Antiques Magazine
February 2021

Richard Anuszkiewicz featured in the February 2021 issue of Art & Antiques Magazine. PDF available for download below.

Joel Perlman's "Dreadnought" at the Nassau County Museum of Art
Joel Perlman's "Dreadnought" at the Nassau County Museum of Art
January 2021

Video of Joel Perlman's "Dreadnought" at the NCMA.

Joel Perlman in Field of Dreams at the Parrish Art Museum
Joel Perlman in Field of Dreams at the Parrish Art Museum

WATER MILL, NY 8/17/2020—The Parrish Art Museum announces Field of Dreams—part of the new Art in the Meadow initiative created to activate the Museum’s extensive outdoor spaces, enlivening them with performances, projections, and an extensive sculpture exhibition that engages and responds to the Parrish’s architecture and landscape.

The Life & Work of Ronald Bladen: A Live Discussion Panel
The Life & Work of Ronald Bladen: A Live Discussion Panel

Join us at 1pm ET for a live conversation over ZOOM with sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard, author Dr. Robert S. Mattison, and painter Torkwase Dyson, to discuss the life and work of Ronald Bladen. The discussion will be lead by William Corwin and we'll conclude with a poetry reading by Simone White.

In Memory of Richard Anuszkiewicz, 1930-2020
In Memory of Richard Anuszkiewicz, 1930-2020

Loretta Howard Gallery is saddened by the passing of our dear friend and gallery artist, Richard Anuskiewicz. Richard died on May 19, 2020 in Englewood, New Jersey.

The Wall Street Journal - A Crush That Led To a Brush - Larry Poons
The Wall Street Journal - A Crush That Led To a Brush - Larry Poons

The Wall Street Journal article about Larry Poons, featuring "Rock and Roll" which was featured in Specific Forms, in March 2020

Larry Poons, 82, is an abstract painter best known for his “dot” and “throw” paintings. “Larry Poons” (Abbeville), a book-length monograph of his work from the 1950s to the present, will be published in September. He spoke with Marc Myers.

Specific Forms Review in Two Coats of Paint
Specific Forms Review in Two Coats of Paint

On its own terms: “Specific Forms” at Loretta Howard - Two Coats of Paint, contributed by Kim Uchiyama

Stephen Antonakos: Late Light/Gold Works 2010 - 2013 Review by Mary Ann Caws in the Brooklyn Rail
Stephen Antonakos: Late Light/Gold Works 2010 - 2013 Review by Mary Ann Caws in the Brooklyn Rail

This past Friday the 13th of December, in the dismal rain, was a deliciously gilded day for anyone who went to Chelsea to contemplate the undismal sheen of these “late light gold works.” Created late in the life of Stephen Antonakos, and luminous, all these radiant outpourings and inpourings of a sun inside a mind shine forth.

Bringing Cleve Gray’s Threnody to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Bringing Cleve Gray’s Threnody to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine

An initiative to bring the Threnody murals to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City is underway for 2021. The Cathedral, a sacred architectural landmark, is renowned for presenting significant works at the intersection of art, faith, and the struggle for human rights.

Ronald Bladen Monograph Published By Abbeville Press
Ronald Bladen Monograph Published By Abbeville Press
Ronald Bladen: Sculpture, by Robert S. Mattison
Ronald Bladen Book Launch at NYU
Ronald Bladen Book Launch at NYU

In celebrating the completion of Ronald Bladen: To Conquer Space we invite you to a book launch party at NYU. Author Robert S. Mattison in conversation with artist Dorothea Rockburne, curator and author Melissa Rachleff Burtt, and Loretta Howard. 

Cleve Gray: Threnody Open Now at Neuberger Museum
Cleve Gray: Threnody Open Now at Neuberger Museum
Purchase, NY Through December 22
Larry Poons Profile in Art & Antiques
Larry Poons Profile in Art & Antiques
September Issue
STEPHEN ANTONAKOS:  A MODERNIST’S BYZANTIUM
STEPHEN ANTONAKOS: A MODERNIST’S BYZANTIUM
At the Morgan Library

Please join us on Wednesday, November 20th at 7:00 PM for the Hellenic-American Cultural Foundation’s presentation of STEPHEN ANTONAKOS: A MODERNIST’S BYZANTIUM, at the Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Ave. The dialogue between Helen Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Robert Storr, artist, curator, and writer, will be preceded by Idith Meshulam Korman playing Nikos Skalkottas’s Piano Pieces.

Ronald Bladen's "Flying Fortress" and "Host of the Ellipse" On View at Katonah Museum of Art
Ronald Bladen's "Flying Fortress" and "Host of the Ellipse" On View at Katonah Museum of Art
Through 2020

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition, ANGLE/EDGE/PLANE: The Sculpture of Ronald Bladen, organized by Sam Yates, Director of Galleries at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Cleve Gray Hawaiian Paintings on view at LEADAPRON Los Angeles
Cleve Gray Hawaiian Paintings on view at LEADAPRON Los Angeles

LEADAPRON

554 Huntley Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90048

Roberto Caracciolo in Toledo Museum Show
Roberto Caracciolo in Toledo Museum Show
Coleccion Roberto Polo Centro de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo de Castilla-La Mancha on through December 23rd, 2019
George Sugarman on view at Consortium Museum; Dijon, France
George Sugarman on view at Consortium Museum; Dijon, France
Traveling exhibition

May 16th, 2019 - October 20th, 2019
Consortium Museum
Curated by Franck Gautherot et Seungduk Kim
 

Hyperallergic - Edith Schloss admires Edward Dugmore in a letter to Basquiat
Hyperallergic - Edith Schloss admires Edward Dugmore in a letter to Basquiat

Hyperallergic publishes an honest letter from Edith Schloss to Jean-Michel Basquiat - she refers to Edward Dugmore as “a master who knows what to do with his craft and his troubles”

Richard Anuszkiewicz at Whitney Museum of American Art
Richard Anuszkiewicz at Whitney Museum of American Art
Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s Mar 29–Aug 2019
Joel Perlman "Roundhouse" at The Scalpel, London
Joel Perlman "Roundhouse" at The Scalpel, London
2019

Loretta Howard Gallery congratulates Joel Perlman on his completed sculpture "Roundhouse", commissioned for The Scalpel, 52 Lime Street, London EC3 
Property Group Partners

Richard Anuszkiewicz featured in "Bauhaus and America. Experiments in Light and Movement"
Richard Anuszkiewicz featured in "Bauhaus and America. Experiments in Light and Movement"
Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History; Münster, Germany November 9, 2018–March 10, 2019

Richard Anuszkiewicz works on view in "Bauhaus and America. Experiments in Light and Movement" at Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History in Münster, Germany. Anuszkiewicz is featured along with artists such as Anni Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, etc. 

Kikuo Saito Profile in Art & Antiques
Kikuo Saito Profile in Art & Antiques
By John Dorfman March 2019
Francine du Plessix Gray 1930-2019
Francine du Plessix Gray 1930-2019
The New Yorker

Loretta Howard Gallery remembers Francine with great love and admiration.

Joel Perlman - Commission for The Scalpel, London. To be installed January 2019.
Joel Perlman - Commission for The Scalpel, London. To be installed January 2019.
Roundhouse, 2018, Stainless Steel, 15' feet.

KinoSaito is a nonprofit organization and art space dedicated to all forms of abstract art, in the interdisciplinary spirit of its founding muse, Kikuo Saito.

David Row's "Split Infinitive" to be included in Pepe Karmel's publication "Abstract Art"
David Row's "Split Infinitive" to be included in Pepe Karmel's publication "Abstract Art"
Autumn 2019

Scheduled for an Autumn 2019 publication date, Abstract Art will be a scholarly and original survey of abstract art, discussing the roots of abstraction in nineteenth-century movements as well its development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

David Row Counter Clockwise Review in Art Critical
David Row Counter Clockwise Review in Art Critical
George Sugarman at MAMCO, Geneva in group show: Pattern, Decoration & Crime
George Sugarman at MAMCO, Geneva in group show: Pattern, Decoration & Crime

MAMCO returns through this important collective exhibition on an artistic movement from the 1970s to the 1980s entitled "Pattern & Decoration", which enjoyed international success in the 1980s, then recession in the following decades.

Nicolas Carone Solo Exhibition at Boca Museum of Art
Nicolas Carone Solo Exhibition at Boca Museum of Art

Images from Nicolas Carone's 'Shadow Dance' on view April 24th- July 22nd, 2018 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Photos by Jacek Gancarz/ Courtesy of the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

We remember Irving Sandler with great fondness and respect.

Larry Poons and Roberto Caracciolo to be included in Barbara Rose's "Painting after Postmodernism"
Larry Poons and Roberto Caracciolo to be included in Barbara Rose's "Painting after Postmodernism"
Shirley Goldfarb to be included in Denmark exhibition "A Short History of Abstraction"
Shirley Goldfarb to be included in Denmark exhibition "A Short History of Abstraction"
Spring 2018
Ronald Bladen and George Sugarman works featured in Abu Dhabi leg of Historical "Inventing Downtown"
Ronald Bladen and George Sugarman works featured in Abu Dhabi leg of Historical "Inventing Downtown"
International Exhibition Tour
Ronald Bladen's "Host of the Ellipse" now on view at Longhouse Reserve
Ronald Bladen's "Host of the Ellipse" now on view at Longhouse Reserve
"Edward Dugmore, Abstract Expressionist Inspired by nature"
"Edward Dugmore, Abstract Expressionist Inspired by nature"
Larry Poons and Jean Dubuffet reviewed in HyperAllergic
Larry Poons and Jean Dubuffet reviewed in HyperAllergic
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