Berry Campbell Gallery
| Established | 2013 |
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| Type | Art gallery |
| Location |
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| Website | berrycampbell |
Berry Campbell Gallery is an art gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Its founders and directors are Christine Berry and Martha Campbell. The gallery focuses on historical and contemporary artists associated with American modernism.[1]
History[edit]
Christine Berry and Martha Campbell met while both were working at the Spanierman Gallery. They established Berry Campbell Gallery in 2013. In 2015, Berry Campbell Gallery took over a neighboring gallery space and expanded to 4,000 square feet.[2] In September 2022 it moved to a 9,000 square foot location formerly occupied by Paula Cooper Gallery and Robert Miller Gallery.[3]
Program[edit]
Berry Campbell Gallery specializes in American abstract expressionism, with an emphasis on artists who have been historically overlooked due to their gender, age, or race. In a 2020 interview with Surface, Berry said that she and Campbell "discovered a gap in the Chelsea art scene" because the galleries in the area that did show well known "postwar and abstract expressionist" artists had largely been forgotten and that led to them opening the Berry Campbell Gallery to bring back those artists "to the forefront by telling their stories and showcasing their contributions to the movement".[4]
Berry Campbell Gallery exhibitions have been widely reviewed by critics including Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, and Donald Kuspit.[5][6][7]
Exhibitions[edit]
After her death in 2010, a retrospective exhibition was held for the works of Charlotte Park in 2016 at the gallery, with Berry Campbell becoming the holder of Park's estate in the years following.[8] A traveling exhibition of Syd Solomon's work titled "Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed" was featured at the gallery in July 2016.[9] In May 2020, Ida Kohlmeyer's exhibition "Cloistered" was held at the gallery focusing on her abstract paintings involving symmetrical symbols.[5][10] Edward Zutrau's works, also with the gallery as owners of his estate, were featured for the second time in an exhibition in June 2021 titled "Mandarin (Paintings from the 1950s)", described by the New York Observer as "colorful, giving, and showcase a decade-long fascination with abstract citrus-focused expression".[11] An exhibit named "Lynne Drexler: The First Decade" was opened in October 2022 to showcase the work of the late Lynne Mapp Drexler, presenting the pieces she made between 1965 and 1969.[12][13]
During the 2010's, multiple exhibitions by the Berry Campbell Gallery were given to the work of Walter Darby Bannard before and after his death in 2016, reviving his art from the "period of neglect" they had been in during the decades prior.[14][15][16]
Selected artists represented[edit]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "About the Gallery". Berry Campbell Gallery. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
- ^ "Berry Campbell Gallery is Expanding". Artfix Daily. July 22, 2015.
- ^ "Berry Campbell Announces its New Location". Artsy.net.
- ^ "The Gallerist Duo Championing Unsung Postwar Artists". Surface. September 10, 2020.
- ^ a b c Smith, Roberta (April 2, 2020). "3 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home". The New York Times. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
- ^ Plagens, Peter (December 20, 2014). "Puzzling Social Commentary and Silky Elegance in Bronze: Art Exhibits by Ivan Witenstein, Ken Greenleaf and Barbara Chase-Riboud". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ a b Kuspit, Donald (September 1, 2017). "Larry Zox". Artforum.
- ^ Dorfman, John (2020). "Charlotte Park: The Quiet Abstractionist". Art & Antiques. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
- ^ Fugate, Marty (May 8, 2016). "Unmasking the art of Syd Solomon". Sarasota Herald Tribune. Retrieved May 6, 2023 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Corwin, William (May 18, 2020). "Ida Kohlmeyer: Cloistered". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
- ^ Taylor, Erin (June 1, 2021). "Best Gallery Exhibitions Summer 2021, From Salon 94 to Nancy Hoffman Gallery". New York Observer. Retrieved April 16, 2023 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Loos, Ted (October 22, 2022). "Out of Obscurity, Lynne Drexler's Abstract Paintings Fetch Millions". New York Times. Retrieved April 18, 2023 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Gerlis, Melanie (September 15, 2022). "The Art Market: Collecting". Financial Times. Archived from the original on January 20, 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Tuchman, Phyllis (June 3, 2015). "Walter Darby Bannard". Artforum. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
- ^ Grimes, William (October 8, 2016). "Walter Darby Bannard, Artist of the Color Field Movement, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
- ^ Rose, Barbara (December 13, 2016). "Walter Darby Bannard (1934–2016)". Artforum. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
- ^ "Edward Avedisian (1936-2007)". Berry Campbell Gallery. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
- ^ Noor, Tausif (February 28, 2019). "Critics' Pick: Judith Godwin at Berry Campbell". Artforum.
- ^ Kuspit, Donald (September 9, 2022). "Elizabeth Osborne, Consummate Painter". Whitehot Magazine.
- ^ "Stephen Pace (1918-2010)". Berry Campbell Gallery. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
- ^ "William Perehudoff (1918–2013)". Berry Campbell Gallery. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
- ^ Baker, R.C. (January 19, 2018). "Ann Purcell's Paintings Mix the New York School with the Free-For-All 1980s". The Village Voice.
- ^ Panero, James (February 2, 2018). "Gallery Chronicle". The New Criterion.
- ^ Trauring, Michelle (May 21, 2019). "Berry Campbell Presents Survey of Frank Wimberley Paintings". Sag Harbor Express. Archived from the original on July 15, 2020. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
- ^ Segal, Mark (May 30, 2019). "The Art Scene 05.30.19". The East Hampton Star.
- ^ McMullen, Troy (March 3, 2021). "Artist Frank Wimberley, at 94, is still full of surprises". ABC News.