Anita Shapolsky Gallery

04/28/2026

“Abstract Legacy” exhibition on display through August 2026.

07/28/2024

Now showing at our foundation in Pennsylvania.
For more info visit: www.asartfoundation.org/current-exhibition/

03/09/2024

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Here is the walkthrough of our newest exhibition "Changing Landscapes of Female Artists" at the Anita Shapolsky Art Gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhatt...

09/16/2023

A snippet of the current show “John Hultberg: The Painter of the In-Between” featuring John Hultberg, Michael Loew, William Manning, Lynne Drexler, Zero Mostel, and Martha Jackson. Come view the show in person at 152 E65th Street or online at anitashapolskygallery.com. The show will run from September 14th to November 22nd 2023.

09/16/2023

The Anita Shapolsky Gallery will be presenting a rare exhibition of John Hultberg’s paintings alongside a group of artists who crossed paths on Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. His renowned dealer, Martha Jackson, in 1961 helped him acquire a home and refuge there where he remained for 40 years. Among the artists joining him there were Michael Lowe, William Manning, Zero Mostel, Hultberg’s wife, Lynne Drexler, whose abstract works have recently been lauded by the art world, and Martha Jackson, who studied with Hans Hofmann before becoming a gallerist.

Hultberg’s unique works, part abstract, part representational, don’t easily fit into any category, hence he described himself as the “painter of the in-between.” His dark, dramatic architectonic “landscapes” and “interiors,” with deep perspective and strong horizontal lines, though predominately abstract, are often interspersed with demonic or alien figures.

His paintings take viewers through a vortex into compartmentalized “apocalyptic vistas and cinematic windows into the unknown” These broken up images often seem to be buildings or cities in the process of either being constructed or being destroyed by cataclysmic natural disasters like earthquakes or fires, or the devastation caused by wars, or pollution etc. making his works extremely prophetic.

09/16/2023

The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is proud to announce our newest show “John Hultberg: The Painter of the In-Between” featuring works from John Hultberg as well as Lynne Drexler, Michael Loew, Martha Jackson, Zero Mostel, and William Manning. This show is running from September 14th to November 22, 2023.

08/26/2023

08/26/2023

Kiki the gallery cat! She’s currently loving all the Boardman and Briggs pieces we have up! Come see them at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery. This is the second to last week of our show “Two Views Of Abstract Expressionism “. The show will end on September 8th, 2023 and we will prepare for our next show.

08/12/2023

Seymour Boardman, artistically formed in New York and Paris, before and after WWII, developed and defined his style alongside fellow influential artists like Sam Francis, Larry Calcagno, John Hultberg and Frank Lobdell. Exhibiting in solo and group shows from the 1950s until his death in 2005, Boardman's paintings can be found in national and international collections.

Boardman's paintings can be recognized by an apparent underlying grid that sets the stage for an orchestration of linear motifs that became more and more simplified over the years. Anita Shapolsky highlights the intellectual European starting point of his work that matured and evolved into an almost jazz-like improvisational musical score of the line moving across the canvas.

06/17/2023

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At the CSFA, Clyfford Still introduced Schueler to the work of J.M.W. Turner whose use of light and color to capture the fleeting effects of the sky deeply influenced him. Similar to Turner, Schueler’s skyscapes would blur the line between abstraction and representation using depth and luminosity to capture an emotive record, visualizing his experiences, including those of World War II. After living in NYC, Schueler relocated to Scotland where the ever-changing skies were a source of inspiration as he pursued creating “a painting most like nature”. Schueler saw his work as a means of conveying the emotional and spiritual dimensions of the natural world. Subsequently, he would favor minimal shapes, almost eliminating figuration, allowing for a
viewer's personal associations to shape their experience. These “Skyscapes” are the defining aspect of his oeuvre; an exploration of color and emotion, an evocation of nature.

Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Moving to NYC in 1951 to join Clifford Still, Schueler was a prominent member of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists shown at the Stable Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery. In 1975 his work would be featured at the Cleveland Museum of Art in an exhibition with Milton Avery and Mark Rothko. Selected Collections include Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Archive, Berkeley, CA; City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Mallaig Heritage Centre, Mallaig, Scotland; The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee, Scotland; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.