Mnuchin Gallery

04/24/2025

Born on this day in 1904 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Willem de Kooning played a pivotal role in shaping post-war American art, bringing a bold originality that became central to the Abstract Expressionist movement. Blending the structured approach of European modernism with the expressive energy of the New York School, he developed a distinctive visual style that expanded the boundaries of painting.

Throughout a career spanning six decades, his constant innovation—especially his revolutionary approach to the human figure—secured his place as one of the most impactful and lasting artists of the 20th century.

Installation view of De Kooning: Five Decades, at Mnuchin Gallery, April 19 - June 15, 2019. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging. Willem de Kooning © 2025 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

04/16/2025

Mnuchin Gallery is pleased to present “Chamberlain Goes Outdoors at Rockefeller Center,” an installation of three dynamic sculptures from John Chamberlain’s ‘FOILS’ series, on view on Center Plaza in New York’s iconic from April 16 through May 29, 2025.

Opening on what would have been Chamberlain’s birthday, the ‘FOILS’ represent the most serious body of work in Chamberlain’s distinguished career intended for outdoor display. This group of large-scale sculptures offers a rare opportunity to experience one of the artist’s most ambitious endeavors.

Photography by Timothy Doyon

01/24/2025

Final Days | Homage to Frank Stella
 
“Homage to Frank Stella” is a tribute to the late artist’s accomplishments, offering visitors a momentous opportunity to engage with the pivotal moments that defined his extraordinary career.  A masterfully innovative artist, his career is defined by an interplay of materials, forms, and structures and geometries. Few artists have left such an indelible mark across so many artistic movements, minds, and generations as Frank Stella. 
 
“Homage to Frank Stella” closes Saturday, January 25, 2025

 
Image: Frank Stella, “Her name was Marianne Congreve” [Q #5] “Ihr war Marianne Congreve” [Q #5], 1998, painted aluminum sandcasting, 80 x 59 x 40 inches (203.2 x 149.9 x 101.6 cm) The Estate of Frank Stella
Photography by Tom Powel Imagining
 
 

12/24/2024

Happy Holidays from the Mnuchin Gallery team! We hope your holiday season is filled with joy, laughter, and art as we look ahead to a wonderful New Year. Please note that we are now closed for the holidays and will reopen with regular hours on Thursday, January 2, 2025. See you in the new year!

Image: Installation view of ‘Donald Judd: Stacks’, September 26 – December 14, 2013 at Mnuchin Gallery by Tom Powel Imaging. All artwork © Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

12/08/2024

Today is the final day of Art Basel Miami Beach. Come see our booth before it’s too late!
 
Miami Beach Convention Center
Mnuchin Gallery | Booth H12
 

 
Photography by Dawn Blackman
   

11/26/2024

Frank with a fig

Mnuchin Gallery will be closed in honor of the Thanksgiving Holiday beginning Thursday, November 28th and reopen on Tuesday, December 3rd.

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Image: Hollis Frampton, Biff Henrich, untitled from The Secret World of Frank Stella, 1958-1962 © Estate of Hollis Frampton

11/20/2024

Frank Stella’s “Ileana Sonnabend” (1963), with its metallic paint on an isosceles trapezoid canvas, contrasts sharply with the stainless-steel tubing and carbon fiber of his sculptural “boeta” (2004), yet both works exemplify his enduring exploration of geometry and materiality. Created nearly forty years apart, the pairing highlights Stella’s negotiation of form, as the flat, reflective surface of “Ileana Sonnabend” transforms into the dynamic, spatial complexity of “boeta”. Together, they explore the interplay of softness and hardness, depth and sight, as Stella pushes the boundaries of abstraction across different dimensions and media.
 
Images: Installation view of Homage to Frank Stella,at Mnuchin Gallery, September 18 – December 14, 2024. © 2024 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging.
 
Frank Stella, Ileana Sonnabend (detail), 72 3/4 x 128 inches (184.8 x 325.1 cm). Photography by Timothy Doyon.
 
Frank Stella, boeta (detail), 2004, stainless steel tubing and carbon fiber, 74 5/8 x 53 1/8 x 41 inches (189.5 x 134.9 x 104.1 cm).

10/31/2024

A masterfully innovative artist, Stella’s late career is further defined by his ventures into the sculptural realm, with dynamic shapes and intricate linear constructions reflecting his enduring fascination with the interplay of materials, forms, and structures. Stella’s use of Protogen RPT, a lightweight and durable resin, exemplifies his innovative approach to integrating new materials into his work. In K. 179 (2011), the combination of Protogen RPT and stainless steel tubing enables Stella to synthesize color, shape, and movement in a manner that poetically responds to the rhythms of Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas.
 
“Homage to Frank Stella” is on view through December 14, 2024.
 
 
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday
10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
 
 
Image: Frank Stella, K. 179, protogen RPT, stainless steel tubing, 71 x 56 x 64 inches (180.3 x 142.2 x 162.6 cm). Photography by Timothy Doyon.

10/20/2024

Today marks the final opportunity to view BALMYWISECRACK at Art Basel Paris.
 
The work is installed on Avenue Winston Churchill between the Grand Palais and Petite Palais.
 

 
Images:
Details of John Chamberlain’s artwork BALMYWISECRACK (2010), presented by Mnuchin Gallery on Avenue Winston Churchill as part of Art Basel Paris 2024’s Public Program. © Art Basel

10/16/2024

Mnuchin Gallery is pleased to present John Chamberlain’s monumental sculpture BALMYWISECRACK as part of Art Basel Paris’s prestigious public programming of outdoor sculpture.

Located on Avenue Winston Churchill between the Grand Palais and Petite Palais, BALMYWISECRACK is on view from October 15 – 20, 2024.
 
For over six decades, Chamberlain’s fearless exploration of form, color, and material pushed the boundaries of art. The Foils are the first and only works from his distinguished career that are intended to be displayed outdoors. Examples from this late, seminal series have previously been shown at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh; and on the grounds of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. 
 
Art Basel Paris
PUBLIC PROGRAM
OCTOBER 15 – 20, 2024
 
 

 
Images:
Detail of John Chamberlain’s artwork BALMYWISECRACK (2010), presented by Mnuchin Gallery on Avenue Winston Churchill as part of Art Basel Paris 2024’s Public Program. © Art Basel
John Chamberlain, BALMYWISECRACK, 2011, Aluminum, lead, polyether urethane and stainless steel,
147 x 220 x 179 inches (373.4 x 558.8 x 454.7 cm)

09/10/2024

Mnuchin Gallery is honored to announce “Homage to Frank Stella”, on view from September 18th to December 14th, 2024.
 
In commemoration of both his life and artistic legacy, the selected works will illuminate the enduring significance of Stella’s diverse and exploratory oeuvre through seminal examples spanning from 1958 to 2023.
 

Image: Frank Stella, “Double Scramble II”, 1968, florescent alkyd and alkyd on canvas, 69 x 138 inches (175 x 350 cm). Private Collection, Europe.

 

08/12/2024

06/30/2024

Born on this day in 1945 in Dublin, Ireland, Sean Scully is an internationally renowned painter celebrated for his singular, poetic mode of Post-Minimalist abstraction.

Scully began his career in London during the 1960s and swiftly achieved commercial acclaim over the following decade with technically virtuosic paintings featuring brightly colored, hard-edged bands and lines, inspired by American Minimalism. By 1982, Scully had relocated to New York City, where he developed deep, sculptural stretcher frames, that allowed for painting on both the front and sides of the canvases. It was also around this time that he began combining canvases of varying sizes and depths, while adopting softer brushwork and a more complex color palette. By the end of the 1980s, Scully garnered further critical acclaim through solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe.

Driven by a desire to evoke emotional associations through architectural vocabulary and harmonized color combinations, Scully began his “Wall of Light” series in the late 1980s, which is ongoing to this day.

Sean Scully currently resides and works in New York, London, and Germany.

Images:
Installation View of ‘Sean Scully: The Eighties’ at Mnuchin Gallery, September 13 – October 22, 2016. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging © Sean Scully
 
Robert Mnuchin and Sean Scully at Mnuchin Gallery, ‘Sean Scully: The Eighties’, September 13 – October 22, 2016 Image: BFA
 

06/25/2024

Sam Francis was in 1923 in San Mateo, California. Although he was reluctant to formally align himself with any particular movement, Francis is often associated with the second generation of Abstract Expressionism. Early in his career, he drew significant inspiration from pioneering figures like Clyfford Still and Jackson Po***ck. Unlike his predecessors, Francis innovatively merged acrylic and oil paints, enhancing the mediums’ expressive impact. He approached color uniquely, harnessing its symbolic and emotive power through highly pigmented hues. Francis famously described color as “light on fire,” each shade resonating with its own burning essence.

Image: Sam Francis, Untitled (Study for White Line), circa 1958, gouache on paper mounted on panel, 40 1/4 x 26 1/2 inches (102.2 x 67.3 cm)

05/31/2024

Happy Birthday to Ellsworth Kelly, born on this day in 1923 in Newburgh, New York. Aesthetically, Ellsworth Kelly redefined abstraction. Though primarily renowned as a painter, Kelly also ventured into sculpture, where his three-dimensional works underscored the significance of form and relationships, paralleling the profound exploration of space, form, and color evident in his paintings.
 
 
 
Images:
Ellsworth Kelly in front of ‘Yellow Piece’ (1966) at Mnuchin Gallery, ‘Ellsworth Kelly: Singular Forms 1966 – 2009’, April 18 – June 8, 2013. Photo Credits: Benjamin Lozovsky/BRAnyc.com
 
Installation view of ‘Ellsworth Kelly: Singular Forms 1966 – 2009’, April 18 – June 8, 2013, Photography by Tom Powel Imaging. . All artwork © Estate of Ellsworth Kelly
 
Ellsworth Kelly and Robert Mnuchin at Mnuchin Gallery, ‘Ellsworth Kelly: Singular Forms 1966 – 2009’, April 18 – June 8, 2013. Photo Credits: Benjamin Lozovsky/BRAnyc.com
 
 

05/23/2024

Franz Kline was born on this day in 1910 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a small coal-mining town. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Kline primarily produced cityscapes and interior scenes, many of which were inspired by his hometown in Pennsylvania. It was also during this time that he met fellow painters such as Willem de Kooning, who encouraged him to work more abstractly.

In 1948, he began working in the style he is best known for today: large-scale, abstract works rendered almost exclusively in black and white. Their fluid gestures and limited palette deftly emphasize the relationship between figure and ground, creating evocations of the recognizable while avoiding literal references to real-world objects or events.

Franz Kline’s monumental 1960 work “Harleman” is on view now in the Spring Fever exhibition at Mnuchin Gallery.