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Artist Submissions:
The gallery regrets that it is unable to accept any unsolicited submissions.

Artists Represented:
Clytie Alexander
William Bailey
Jake Berthot
Rackstraw Downes
Greg Drasler
Elizabeth Enders
Charles Garabedian
Judy Glantzman
Annette Lawrence
John Lees
Stanley Lewis
Beverly McIver
Philip Pearlstein
Mia Westerlund Roosen
Alison Wilding

08/26/2026

"Like the scrappy Neo-Expressionists who crowded the storefront galleries of her early career, Glantzman approaches her art not as a problem to be solved or a craft to be mastered but as a receptacle for outpourings from her emotional well, abandoning the niceties of drawing, color and composition in order to tap a direct line to the canvas from the gut." - Thomas Micchelli for the Brooklyn Rail, 2006
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Judy Glantzman
Tenderness, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
6 x 6 inches

08/16/2026

"Mia Westerlund Roosen’s early career unfolded against the backdrop of Minimalism’s heyday, but her work diverged sharply from the austere, industrial ethos of contemporaries, whose machine-informed processes and commitment to art for art’s sake. Where their work was polished, rigid and cold, hers, while similarly monumental, was organic, sensual, tactile and emotional, referencing or evoking geological forms, flesh and other earthly materials." - Christa Terry on Mia Westerlund Roosen for the Observer, 2026
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Iris, 2004
Ceramic
8 1/4 x 16 x 12 inches
(MW13666)

08/13/2026

"One can see relationships between the colors and/or tones, but Forge often added a series of unconnected lines or dispersed dots in no apparent pattern to interrupt any visual rhythm that might occur in his paintings. The balance between rhythm and dissonance is always tightly calibrated. We don’t look at these paintings; we look into them, while being conscious of the surface." - John Yau on Andrew Forge for Hyperallergic, 2021
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SUMMER SOLSTICE, 2000-01
Oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
(AF10656)

08/11/2026

“Fairfield Porter said that the artist who searches for subject matter⁠
is like someone who cannot get out of bed in the morning without⁠
understanding the meaning of life." - So quoted by Rackstraw Downes,⁠
Middlebury College, 1991⁠
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Bull Barn Interior, Marfa, 2006 (RD17065)
⁠[Detail] School Buildings Near Skowhegan (Summer), 1975 (RD17068)⁠
In the Artist's Studio XII, 2020 (RD17098)⁠
Presidio Cell Tower, 2010 (RD16305)

08/03/2026

"His materials were rock-bottom basic: pencils, poster paint and scraps of cardboard. The studio was the sidewalk. Before his death in 1949 he produced hundreds of works. Most were silhouette-style images of people, animals and buildings that referred to the world around him but had a dreamlike psychological charge." - Holland Cotter for The New York Times, 2018

07/30/2026

"I could not figure out how many sections and overlays Lewis ending up using for the acrylic on paper “Intersection Post Road and Compo Road” (2015-19). He even went so far as to the bisect the painting vertically, make a gap between the two sections, and add third section underneath, joining them. He painted the space between the two sheets a grayish green, suggesting a telephone pole. By working this way, Lewis reminds us that painting and our view of reality are things we construct. He hides neither his decisions nor his dissatisfactions; he is willing to leave one part of a section of paper he adhered to the surface unpainted." - John Yau on Stanley Lewis for Hyperalleric, 2022 ⁠
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To read the full article click the link below!
https://hyperallergic.com/stanley-lewis-pursuit-of-the-impossible/
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Intersection Post Road and
Compo Road, 2015-2019
Signed on verso
Acrylic on paper
28 1/2 x 30 inches

07/28/2026

On Thursday, January 10th, 2013 Betty Cuningham Gallery opened a group exhibition titled PAINT at its Chelsea gallery!

"In this exhibition the single common element is PAINT and from that point forward each artist delivers his or her own distinct vocabulary... Like music, the language of painting crosses national borders, is shared by common perception and challenges us to follow the route being paved by each artist."

The exhibition featured seven artists from the gallery along with three guest artists which, at the time, included Stanley Lewis! Clink the link below to revisit more from PAINT!

http://www.bettycuninghamgallery.com/exhibitions/paint

07/20/2026

"With all but offhanded seeming charm and lack of pomp, John Lees manages to establish strong presences and worth in the most unassuming and unexpected images. pays tribute to the least presumptuous or ladida and renders them for the ages. He knows how to create even via the most transient of subjects, a sense of wonder, the transcendent, and gravitas." - Aimée Brown Price on John Lees for Artcritical, 2015

07/17/2026

"Elizabeth’s London work is often pointedly political. One painting derides the Vietnam War; another caricaturizes Richard Nixon. A series is titled Save the Ocean. Another decade-long group of paintings featuring a central red-haired woman, often depicted amongst fellow women, conveys the hopefulness of the burgeoning feminist movement." - Elaine Velie on Elizabeth Enders, 2025

07/02/2026

Can you guess who the artist is?

Here is a clue from a 2012 press release: "In these drawings he explores the relationship between an artist and his models: the dilemma of a blank canvas, the focus on the voluptuous model or a bow to earlier masters. They are, in the high art sense, classical cartoons."

Click the link in our bio to learn more. The answer is below!

Jake Berthot
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UNTITLED (ARTIST-ARTIST
MODEL SERIES), 2006 (JB12214)

doubt and the collector (artist model
series 1986), 1986 (JB14633)

Beauty Replaces Beauty (Artist
Model), 2006 (JB13697)

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