As galleries continue to explore new ways to communicate and share art, we can report that our extended gallery family remains well during these very challenging times. We hope the same for you and yours.
These images show a few of our artists at home, adapting and working – more to follow. Please follow the gallery on
Instagram
for updates on our artists and their work.
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Stephen Westfall
Stephen Westfall writes:
I’m upstate at a friend’s house stockpiling the larder, cooking, dealing with far flung family members, learning Zoom, and taking socially distancing walks like everyone else. Fortunately, we have a great view of the Catskills, the cradle of the American painterly imagination. So even as an abstract painter I feel I’m in a good place. Planning to bring supplies up from my Brooklyn studio when the weather warms. It’s a transition, but I have seven watercolor blocks of different sizes and am commencing to add to the work on paper that the gallery will eventually have
. Stephen is on sabbatical this term from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers.
Follow this link
for images of some recent work
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We were all so pleased to see Crystal Bridges post an image of
Tom Uttech’s great 2009 migration painting
– a popular mainstay of the museum’s contemporary installation. The image of the North Woods and the many comments lifted our spirits, and Tom’s. Tom, Mary and their college-aged son are home, north of Milwaukee. Their property includes over 30 acres of native tall-grass prairie, which Tom restores, cultivates, seeds, mows and burns – a great bird-watching environment. He is planning his summer garden, going on walks, and spending time in the studio.
Follow this link
for images of some recent work.
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The gallery had planned to present its first exhibition of Pat Adams’s work this spring – paintings and works on paper from the 1970s and 80s, which we plan to re-present in our physical space next season. In the meantime, follow this link to view Pat’s work in our
Virtual Viewing Room
. Pat is safe in her longtime home in Vermont, where she taught for years in the Bennington College Art Department. She is now working small-scale, making collages and enjoying re-visiting old sketchbooks and ideas. She’s taking a break from going out to her primary studio in an old barn, and now working on an ironing board in the kitchen.
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David C. Driskell
(1931 – 2020)
We join the art world in mourning the loss of David C. Driskell. Artist, teacher, historian, curator, collector, and dear friend to so many – a truly extraordinary and most generous soul. Among his many contributions to American Art was his landmark 1976 exhibition
Two Centuries of Black American Art
, which he organized for the LA County Museum of Art. More recently David was instrumental in placing major paintings by Aaron Douglas (American, 1899 – 1979), the leading visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance, in museums, including the
Cleveland Museum of Art
,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
and the
National Gallery
. We were fortunate to work closely with David in this endeavor.
Please follow this link
to see David and hear his voice speaking about
Let My People Go
at The Met.
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Phil Alexandre and David C. Driskell
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Lois Dodd and David C. Driskell
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Alexandre Gallery | 212-755-2828 | www.alexandregallery.com
We will reopen our physical space when safe for all.
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