GRAY at 60
(NEW YORK / CHICAGO - January 12, 2023) - GRAY is pleased to announce GRAY at 60, an exhibition and accompanying book commemorating six decades since the gallery鈥檚 founding in 1963 by Richard Gray (1928-2018). The exhibition features works by sixty historical and living artists whose practices have been integral to the gallery鈥檚 vision. GRAY at 60 presents the legacy and future of one of the United States鈥檚 longest running galleries. The exhibition will open at GRAY Chicago on January 26, 2023 and remain on view through March 11, and will be on view at GRAY New York from March 31 through May 26.
GRAY at 60 pursues a single material鈥攑aper鈥攁cross more than one hundred years of art history to survey the myriad ways in which artists use the medium as an index of touch and a surface for immediacy. The exhibition takes root in the gallery鈥檚 intertwined histories of presenting canonical artists alongside those reinventing the canon itself. As gallery principal Paul Gray notes, 鈥淔rom the beginning [of the gallery] there was the eclectic mission of acquiring, exhibiting, and dealing in the masters of the century鈥檚 first half such as Matisse, Picasso, L茅ger, Giacometti, and Gorky, combined with representing and exhibiting prominent mid-career artists of the time, Calder, de Kooning, Avery, and Morris Louis, as well as exhibitions for young and emerging artists like 26 year-old Bob Thompson whom the gallery presented in its inaugural show in 1963.鈥�
Reflecting on this history, GRAY at 60 makes space for Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, Pop, Contemporary, and other expansive practices to be shown along side one another. These transhistorical readings posit a logic for the works of Agnes Martin and Barnett Newman to hang alongside a tar paper work by Theaster Gates; for the colorful forms of Joan Mir贸, Jackson Pollock, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler to enter into dialogue with McArthur Binion鈥檚 and Carrie Moyer鈥檚; for Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse to converse with Alex Katz and David Hockney; for a balance between the sculptors Alexander Calder, Jaume Plensa, and Torkwase Dyson鈥檚 impressions in two dimensions; and for Rashid Johnson鈥檚 figures to join those by Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, and Philip Guston. In considering these conversions of art-making across time, GRAY at 60 finds the medium of paper a fitting ledger with which to trace the years past and those to come.
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(NEW YORK / CHICAGO - January 12, 2023) - GRAY is pleased to announce GRAY at 60, an exhibition and accompanying book commemorating six decades since the gallery鈥檚 founding in 1963 by Richard Gray (1928-2018). The exhibition features works by sixty historical and living artists whose practices have been integral to the gallery鈥檚 vision. GRAY at 60 presents the legacy and future of one of the United States鈥檚 longest running galleries. The exhibition will open at GRAY Chicago on January 26, 2023 and remain on view through March 11, and will be on view at GRAY New York from March 31 through May 26.
GRAY at 60 pursues a single material鈥攑aper鈥攁cross more than one hundred years of art history to survey the myriad ways in which artists use the medium as an index of touch and a surface for immediacy. The exhibition takes root in the gallery鈥檚 intertwined histories of presenting canonical artists alongside those reinventing the canon itself. As gallery principal Paul Gray notes, 鈥淔rom the beginning [of the gallery] there was the eclectic mission of acquiring, exhibiting, and dealing in the masters of the century鈥檚 first half such as Matisse, Picasso, L茅ger, Giacometti, and Gorky, combined with representing and exhibiting prominent mid-career artists of the time, Calder, de Kooning, Avery, and Morris Louis, as well as exhibitions for young and emerging artists like 26 year-old Bob Thompson whom the gallery presented in its inaugural show in 1963.鈥�
Reflecting on this history, GRAY at 60 makes space for Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, Pop, Contemporary, and other expansive practices to be shown along side one another. These transhistorical readings posit a logic for the works of Agnes Martin and Barnett Newman to hang alongside a tar paper work by Theaster Gates; for the colorful forms of Joan Mir贸, Jackson Pollock, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler to enter into dialogue with McArthur Binion鈥檚 and Carrie Moyer鈥檚; for Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse to converse with Alex Katz and David Hockney; for a balance between the sculptors Alexander Calder, Jaume Plensa, and Torkwase Dyson鈥檚 impressions in two dimensions; and for Rashid Johnson鈥檚 figures to join those by Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, and Philip Guston. In considering these conversions of art-making across time, GRAY at 60 finds the medium of paper a fitting ledger with which to trace the years past and those to come.
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GRAY at 60 draws together sixty historical and contemporary artists whose impactful works have been represented and exhibited since the gallery鈥檚 founding in 1963 by Richard Gray (1928鈥�2018).
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