DC Moore Gallery

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Romare Bearden: Paris Blues/Jazz and Other Works, bringing to light the series known as Paris Blues, or Jazz, created in 1981. Exhibited here in a rare opportunity to view the series of 19 collages, Romare Bearden’s Paris Blues/Jazz makes a major statement on the relationships between visual art, jazz music, and urban spaces. In these works, Bearden translates the patterns and rhythms of jazz into visual compositions, the medium of collage paralleling its improvisational and collaborative nature.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Eric Aho: Wild Meadow, an exhibition of new paintings. Following his last exhibition, Threshold, which explored the spaces where forest and wetlands meet, Aho’s series of new work emerges out through the woods into the light and air of an open meadow. Aho embraces the meadow a space of contradictions, both still and humming with life, unruly yet organized by mysterious systems.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Jacob Lawrence: Builders, an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and prints spanning from 1974-2000. Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is an iconic presence in 20th century art. He uniquely harnessed the power of the figurative, the narrative, and the abstract to address major social and philosophical themes. His engagement with African American subject matter was groundbreaking. During the last three decades of his life, Lawrence consistently pursued the subject of Builders, an unparalleled commitment within his work. A continuation of his dedication to themes from daily life, the Builders are a manifestation of his belief in human agency and the dignity of work. The Builders symbolize a variety of ideas about life and work, particularly in Black communities. Altogether, the Builders paintings are philosophical reflections on the human condition, addressing the role and responsibility of all people to the improvement of society.

In conjunction with the exhibition Jacob Lawrence: Builders, DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Friends of Friends, an exhibition tracing personal connections between major 20th century artists. These artists worked, studied, taught, and exhibited alongside each other, forged friendships, supported and inspired each other. Featuring works by: Emma Amos (1937-2020), Romare Bearden (1911-1988), Roy DeCarava (1919-2009), David Driskell (1931-2020), Philip Evergood (1901-1973), Robert Gwathmey (1903-1988), Gwen Knight (1913-2005), Jack Levine (1915-2010), Richard Mayhew (b. 1924), Augusta Savage (1892-1962), Ben Shahn (1898-1969), George Tooker (1920-2011), James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), and Walter Williams (1920-1998).

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Who Is There?, a group exhibition of personal, expressive landscapes. The works in the show merge abstraction and representation, depicting threshold spaces and hybridized forms where the observed and the imaginative meet. Evoking our physical presence in the landscape, these landscapes bring forth the sensations of light, heat, and weather. In many works, the presence of a figure is implied but not made visible, eliciting the question, who is there?

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Amy Cutler: Limbo, the artist’s debut exhibition at the gallery, featuring new paintings on paper and drawings. Amy Cutler is represented by DC Moore Gallery in cooperation with Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.

For his latest exhibition, Alexi Worth presents a group of three-part paintings, colorful and puzzling ensembles of disparate images. “More like triplets than triptychs,” as Worth describes them, the new works resemble rebuses or comics sequences, bands of adjoining, semi-independent pictures that complicate and complement each other.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Barbara Takenaga: Whatsis, an exhibition of new paintings on view through April 27. In recent years, Barbara Takenaga has explored the space between control and randomness, creating vast imagined spaces that evoke the interconnectedness of the natural world. Her new bodies of work continue this duality of fluidity and structure, while introducing graphic and geometric forms. Takenaga translates, recombines, and hybridizes these visual systems, reinterpreting them across cultures and generations.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Robert Kushner: Antella Windows and Curtains, an exhibition of new still life paintings. In April and May of 2023, Robert Kushner visited the Woodman Residency Foundation, the former home and studios of Betty and George Woodman outside of Antella, Italy. Working in George Woodman’s former painting and photography studio, surrounded by olive groves and blue hills, Kushner began the series of paintings on view, completing the works when they were shipped back to his studio in New York. Incorporating still life subjects from the surrounding gardens, fields, and kitchen cabinets, Antella Windows and Curtains explores the relationship between interior and exterior.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude, opening February 8th and continuing through March 16th, 2024. This is the first major solo exhibition of this important 20th century artist in over 20 years, and one of the only ones to highlight Cadmus’s highly finished male nude drawings. Seven rarely exhibited paintings will be on view in this exhibition, placing these intimate drawings in context and opening a conversation between these two sides of Cadmus’s practice. This will be a unique opportunity to see major works by this 20th-century master.

Photographer Duane Michals turns his eye on the legendary artists René Magritte and Andy Warhol in this exhibition of early portraits. Known for his surreal sequences and witty storytelling across media, Michals’s portraits of other artists turn the tables upon his subjects by adopting elements of their characteristic visual styles. Among the many artists photographed by Michals over his six-decade long career, Michals particularly sought out Magritte and Warhol as subjects. The exhibition will feature nearly forty portraits of Warhol and twenty portraits of Magritte, alongside over twenty portraits of other major 20th century artists. These two series reimagine these mythological artists on Michals’s own terms, capturing at once the illusory image of the artist and the person beneath.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Valerie Jaudon: Parameters, an exhibition of new paintings shown with a selection of works from the last two decades. In 2006, Valerie Jaudon’s practice underwent a fundamental shift when the artist eschewed color and optical elements for compositions of white paint on bare linen canvas. Her most recent paintings maintain the simplified palette of white and black paint on raw canvas, while introducing freely curving lines, creating irregular forms within the complex architecture of the composition. The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue, featuring an essay by Pepe Karmel, “Valerie Jaudon: Symmetry and Its Discontents.”

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Jane Wilson: Atmospheres, an exhibition of large landscape paintings and intimate watercolors from 1988 – 2011, many on view for the first time.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Jimmy Wright: Emotional Repositories. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. The works on view, completed in the 2000s and 2010s, involve combinations of dried and fresh flowers, creating variations in form and capturing these ephemeral phases of blooming and decaying. Wright’s decades-long exploration of the subject creates an archive of feeling, pausing time and preserving the most ineffable human emotions.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Summer Heat, a group exhibition of works exploring the various emotional states of summer. Lines ripple and vibrate like heat mirages, gentle washes of color evoke the long evening and tranquility of the ocean, figurative works of sunbathers evoke the dreamy nostalgia of summers past.

DC Moore Gallery is honored to present two concurrent exhibitions, "Yvonne Jacquette: Looking Up/Down/Inside/Out" and "Yvonne Jacquette: Recent Views, Maine & New York," following the recent passing of Yvonne Jacquette on April 23, 2023. The long-planned exhibitions, organized in collaboration with Yvonne Jacquette and her son Tom Burckhardt, will open as scheduled at DC Moore Gallery on May 4, 2023, with the support of her family as a tribute to her life and work.

DC Moore Gallery is honored to present two concurrent exhibitions, Yvonne Jacquette: Looking Up/Down/Inside/Outand Yvonne Jacquette: Recent Views, Maine & New York, following the recent passing of Yvonne Jacquette on April 23, 2023. The long-planned exhibitions, organized in collaboration with Yvonne Jacquette and her son Tom Burckhardt, will open as scheduled at DC Moore Gallery on May 4, 2023, with the support of her family as a tribute to her life and work.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Janet Fish: Beyond the Still Life, an exhibition of Janet Fish’s paintings and works on paper from the 1980s. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see paintings from this period with their profuse compositions of complex objects, active brushwork, vibrant color, and sweeping scale.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present, Darren Waterston: In the Gloaming, an exhibition of new paintings reflecting on nightfall and the visions, dreams, and shadows that occupy that liminal world.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Robert Kushner: Then & Now, an exhibition bringing together fabric paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, many on view in the United States for the first time in forty years, side-by-side with recent paintings on canvas. Inviting conversations between these two bodies of work created decades apart, Then & Now highlights Robert Kushner’s deep and continuous exploration of the intersection of fine art and decoration, drawing from an expansive love of art and visual history.

A large exhibition of small paintings, Come A Little Closer, features the work of 70 plus artists.

On November 17, continuing through December 22, DC Moore Gallery will present What Color Courage?, an exhibition of new and historic work by Mary Frank, featuring mixed media paintings, painted stones, sculptures, along with several groups of works on paper from 1990-2022.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Threshold, an exhibition of paintings by Eric Aho, on view from October 13 – November 12, 2022. In this new series of paintings, Eric Aho explores the various “threshold” spaces between water, earth, sky, and our own physical presence in the landscape. Developed over the past two years and drawn from the artist’s explorations of forests and wetlands, Aho reconstructs and reinvents his observations, composing a visual language of natural forms, feelings, and remembrances. An illustrated catalog with the essay by Andrew L. Shea, “Eric Aho: At the Edge of a Lake,” accompanies the exhibition.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Form, Figure, Abstraction, featuring twenty-six artists whose work on paper spans styles and generations. The exhibition will be on view in the gallery’s project space from September 8 - October 8, 2022.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Reworlding, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Theresa Daddezio, on view from September 8 to October 8, 2022. Theresa Daddezio imagines hybridizations of human and botanic lifeforms, creating harmonies through the language of abstraction. The artist takes inspiration from the concept of plant mimicry–– in which a plant evolves to resemble another plant, often to attract pollinators or deter predators. In the paintings, organic forms take on synthetic colors and textures, complicating the boundaries between the natural and artificial. Daddezio’s paintings offer an optimistic vision of an interconnected future in spite of ecological destruction and stress, finding potential in our shared ability to adapt. This exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue featuring an interview, Becoming & Unbecoming, with the artist and Elizaveta Shneyderman.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Askew, a group exhibition featuring works by Lisha Bai, Tom Burckhardt, James Esber, Chie Fueki, Mary Frank, Sharon Horvath, Mark Innerst, Yvonne Jacquette, Suzanne Joelson, Duane Michals, Carrie Moyer, Katia Santibañez, Karen Schifano, Leah Tacha, Barbara Takenaga, and Alexi Worth. Over the past years, there has been a globally-shared unsettling of what we have understood as “normal” everyday life. As ideologies and supply chains become more fractured, and too many in power lead with misinformation, truth and fact seem to have taken on a strange flexibility, destabilizing our habits and assumptions in ways that can feel minor one day, overwhelming the next. The paintings, photographs, and sculptures in the exhibition reflect the many ways in which we have felt this unsettling, and been forced to look inside ourselves, attempting to reset. They suggest the discomfort—and precarious vitality— that can come from the state of being thrown off, of feeling askew. The connections between these works are strengthened by what is absent: groups gathered, realistic portraiture, naturalistic landscapes. Instead, the artists here create abstract or coded meditations on our inner selves, our bodies, the cosmos, and the immediate environment. Like pieces of a puzzle, each fills in some of the subjective contours of our still-assembling sense of this uncomfortable time.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Claire Sherman's exhibition of new paintings, Intuor, on view May 5 - June 4, 2022.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Carrie Moyer: Morphologies, featuring all new works on paper surrounding a single new painting, on view from April 1 - 30, 2022. An opening reception with the artist will be Friday, April 1 from 6- 8pm.

In keeping with the creativity that permeates his career, Michals’ ideas, ambitions, and interests remain limitless. Filling the gallery and bursting with color and energy, Duane Michals: Kaleidoscope presents new sculptures, paintings on paper, film, and photographs.

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Carrie Moyer: Analog Time on view from April 1 – May 1, 2021. Moyer’s use of abstraction continues to be a medium for sensations and this new body of work is a recollection of the last year spent largely in the twenty-five-block radius of her Brooklyn studio. Analog Time references a new appreciation for the intensity of daily life and a new sense of time that has fused mind and body, memory and imagination, micro and macro.

Image: Romare Bearden, "River Mist," 1962, oil on unprimed linen, and oil, casein, and colored pencil on canvas, cut, torn, and mounted on painted board, 54 1/4 x 40 7/8 inches, courtesy DC Moore Gallery, New York.