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Richard Gray Gallery Chicago, New York | Est. 1963.

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27/02/2025

ON VIEW | A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration brings together twelve contemporary artists to consider the complex impact of the Great Migration.

Between 1915 and 1970, in the wake of racial terror during the post-Reconstruction period, millions of Black Americans fled from their homes to other areas within the South and to other parts of the country. A departure from traditional accounts of the Great Migration, which are often understood through a lens of trauma, A Movement in Every Direction reconceptualizes this period through stories of self-possession, self-determination, and self-examination.

A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration is on view at the Chicago Cultural Center. The exhibition was previously exhibited at the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Musuem.

Pictured: Torkwase Dyson, Way Over There Inside Me (A Festival of Inches), 2022, painted steel, glass, painted aluminum, dry-erase marker. Installation view, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, Mississippi Museum of Art.

25/02/2025

ON VIEW | Alex Katz: Theater and Dance is on view at Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA through June 8, 2025.

The exhibition explores six decades of the artist’s dynamic collaborations with choreographers and avant-garde theater groups, offering a glimpse into the intersection of the visual and performing arts. Alex Katz: Theater and Dance showcases how the artist’s distinctive style—marked by bold compositions, vibrant colors, and references to popular culture—helped shape the look of American postmodern dance. Featuring rare archival materials, major sets, paintings, and never-before-seen sketches, the show is the first to highlight this underexamined aspect of Katz’s storied career, centered on his longstanding partnership with choreographer Paul Taylor.

Pictured: Alex Katz. Night: William Dunas Dance Company 4, 1983. Lithograph in 13 colors on paper. 25 x 31 1/4 in. Colby College Museum of Art, gift of the artist, 1995.417. Photo: Peter Siegal, Pillar Digital Imaging LLC. © 2025 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy American Federation of Arts

21/02/2025

OPENING TOMORROW | Theaster Gates: The Ever-Present Hand opens tomorrow to inaugurate the contemporary programme at the Albuquerque Foundation in Sintra, Portugal.

The iron- and manganese-rich ceramic tiles and clay buddhas that cover the contemporary space of the Albuquerque Foundation were conceived by Gates, created in collaboration with Japanese craftsmen at Mizuno Seitoen in Tokoname, Japan, where the artist honed his craft as a potter in 2004 and has returned annually since.

Exhibited last year in a major solo exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the works arrived in Portugal after weeks at sea, following a route very similar to that of the pieces in the Albuquerque Foundation collection of Chinese export ware—including those the artist himself selected to share the exhibition space with his own, engaged in a dialogue that enriches and adds complexity to them all.

Pictured: Installation views of Theaster Gates, Afro-Mingei, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2024. Art © Theaster Gates

18/02/2025

ON VIEW | On view at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, Clay Conversations: Ceramics from the Gilded to the Digital Age spotlights how contemporary ceramicists reference and critique the medium’s longstanding ties to themes of exclusivity and exoticism.

Clay Conversations juxtaposes selections from the HRM’s Chinese porcelain collection with the work of seven contemporary ceramicists Adam Chau, Patricia Encarnación, Evelyn Mtika, Karen Jaimes, and Yage Wang, and paintings by GRAY artist Ellen Lanyon and George Henry Hall, among others. From antique porcelain vases to contemporary dishware generated by AI technology, Clay Conversations illuminates the power of ceramics to serve as vessels for personal and political expression.

Clay Conversations: Ceramics from the Gilded to the Digital Age is on view through March 9, 2025.

Pictured: Ellen Lanyon (1926–2013), Everything Asian, 2010. Acrylic on canvas. Collection of the Hudson River Museum. Gift of Theodore Kaplan and Henry Tobin, 2023 (2023.1.5).

14/02/2025

CLOSING TOMORROW | Jaume Plensa presents two monumental stainless steel mesh sculptures, Invisible Laura and Invisible Rui Rui, in a new exhibition at La Llotja de Palma in Mallorca.

Titled Mirall, Plensa’s installation reflects on the dualities of the world: body and soul, matter and spirit, light and darkness, opacity and transparency, past and future. The pair of portraits, each 7-meters tall, are constructed by delicately bent stainless steel wires, delineating the faces of Plensa’s subjects while simultaneously wavering in and out of legibility. With deep material awareness, Plensa offers the illusion of a weightless form, rendering otherwise monumental works into light, airy apparitions.

“This is a project with which I reflect on the dualities of the world,” Plensa reflects. “[This duality can be expressed as the] reflection of our face in the mirror, in the faces of all others, lovers and friends, strangers and acquaintances. Men and women share their faces in the most generous of our acts. The duality of body and shadow, of day and night, of joy and pain. The duality of all our dreams that are still waiting to be born in the reflection of a mirror.”

Jaume Plensa: Mirall was organized by the Balearic Government in collaboration with the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. Bonn.

Pictured: Installation views, Jaume Plensa: Mirall, featuring Invisible Laura & Invisible Rui Rui, 2018, at La Llotja de Palma, 2024. Courtesy .

13/02/2025

ON VIEW | Alex Katz is featured in the The Art Institute of Chicago’s Franke Reading Room’s exhibition: “Worldviews.” Drawn from the Art Institute’s collection of modern and contemporary art, Worldviews examines different vantage points on landscapes, psychic and earthly, and natural phenomena in an exploration of subjectivity and what bridges us to the past.

The exhibition features paintings by GRAY artists Alex Katz and Ellen Lanyon, as well as Eleanor Coen, Kurt Seligmann, Bob Thompson, Judith Godwin, Miyoko Ito, Irving Petlin, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Amy Sillman, Roger Brown, and Max Ernst.

Pictured: Alex Katz, Luna Park, 1960, Gift of the Artist.

10/02/2025

ON VIEW | David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation is the largest print retrospective of Hockney’s career to date.

David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed presents a wide body of works produced during a six-decade-long career. The exhibition features nearly 200 of the artist’s works in a variety of media, including prints, collages, photographs, iPhone as well as iPad drawings showcasing the artist’s iconic and inventive style, reinforcing his international reputation as one of the foremost avant-garde realists of our time.

Pictured: 1. David Hockney, Self Portrait IV, 25 March 2012, edition 10/25, 2012; 2. David Hockney, Joe With Green Window, edition 1/54, 1979; 3. David Hockney, Early Morning, edition 10/25, 2009. © David Hockney.

David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed is on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum through March 31, 2025.

07/02/2025

ON VIEW | Jaume Plensa: Materia Interior is on view at The Espacio Fundación Telefónica through May 4, 2025.

“My work wants each person to reflect on it and look inside themselves. Art has to be this catalyst that allows us to create self-confidence and allows us to talk about ideas, about vibrations. We live in a time of noise that often does not allow us those moments of silence. Art has to offer a message of hope and positivity, of believing again that human beings are more than this current violence.” - Jaume Plensa

With works spaning more than 35 years, from the early nineties to the present, Materia Interior explores different perspectives the profound reflection has on the human condition. By means of abstract and conceptual expressions in his early works, to more figurative and sensual representations in his most recent proposals, the selection of fifteen pieces delves into recurring themes of his artistic universe such as identity, the fragility of the human condition, the ephemeral, spirituality, silence, communication and language.

Pictured: 1. Jaume Plensa, La Neige Rouge, 1991; 2. Jaume Plensa, Love Sounds, 1998; 3. Jaume Plensa, Lilliputs, 2012.

06/02/2025

CLOSING SOON | On view at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich through February 16, 2025, Alex Katz: Portraits and Landscapes presents the rich inventory of work by the artist held by the Brandhorst Collection.

Following the major monographic exhibition “Alex Katz” in 2018/19, the current show once again brings together major works from all Katz’s creative phases. In his portraits, Katz depicts family members, acquaintances and artist friends – whether individually or in groups – with an almost simple monumentality. His flair for painterly surfaces stands in an exciting relationship to the formal language of film, fashion and advertising.

Pictured: Installation view of Alex Katz: Portraits and Landscapes. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn [2024], Photo: Nicole Wilhelms, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Museum Brandhorst, Munich.

Alex Katz: Portraits and Landscapes is on view through 16 February 2025.

03/02/2025

ON VIEW | Jaume Plensa, Être Là is currently on view at the Musée de Valence - Art et Archéologie, France.

The solo exhibition is conceived as a poetic journey through drawings and sculptures created over the past three decades. In 1994, Jaume Plensa was invited by the City of Valence to feature in the third edition of the Biennial “One Sculptor, One City.” Now, 30 years later, he returns with Le Messager—a stainless steel sculpture intertwining global alphabets, standing over 4 meters tall. Le Messager, sits between Saint-Apollinaire Cathedral and the Valence Museum. Featuring sixty works, this exhibition will remain on view until April 13, 2025.

Pictured: Installation view of Jaume Plensa: Être Là at Musee de Valence - Art et Archéologie, Valence, France.

31/01/2025

ON VIEW | On view at the Stony Island Arts Bank, “When Clouds Roll Away: Reflections and Restoration of the Johnson Publishing Company Archive,” continues Theaster Gates’s ongoing artistic and academic activation of the Johnson Publishing Company and its legacy as one of the most important Black corporations, a rarity at the time of its founding.

Originally housed at the Johnson Publishing Company building on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Gates and Rebuild Foundation have been stewarding the Johnson Publishing Company’s library, ephemera, periodicals, furniture, inventory, and architectural fragments for over a decade. For the first time ever, Gates exhibits a suite of newly restored objects, vintage office furniture, works of art owned by Johnson, along with his workout equipment, trophies, and memorabilia, making it his most comprehensive celebration of the archive to date.

“Disrupting the notion that archives are objects frozen in time, dependent on academic interpretation, this exhibition demonstrates how contemporary art can act as a new vector for understanding these rich histories and honors artists as the best messengers for the reactivation of old stories,” says Gates.

“When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive” is on view at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago until March 15, 2025.

25/01/2025

FINAL DAY | Today is the final day to view Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory at GRAY Chicago.

Installed over three distinct spaces, the exhibition debuts a monumental sculpture in steel and painted wood, an immersive installation of new paintings, and new cast glass and wood constructions. Of Line and Memory draws from years of research and Dyson’s own spatial memory of navigating the waterways and urban architecture of Chicago. Using the South Shore Cultural Center, a lakeshore landmark with rich historical and architectural significance, as a point of departure, Dyson extracts, reduces, and refines architectural and visual cues into geometric shapes and painterly abstractions.

Pictured: Installation view of Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory, 2024.

23/01/2025

CLOSING SOON | Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory, the artist’s first solo exhibition in GRAY’s Chicago gallery, closes this Saturday, January 25, 2025.

Of Line and Memory draws from years of research and Dyson’s own spatial memory of navigating the waterways and urban architecture of Chicago. Using the South Shore Cultural Center, a lakeshore landmark with rich historical and architectural significance, as a point of departure, Dyson extracts, reduces, and refines architectural and visual cues into geometric shapes and painterly abstractions.

Pictured: Installation view of Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory, 2024.

Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory closes this Saturday, January 25, 2025 at GRAY Chicago.

21/01/2025

FINAL WEEK | “If there is systemic oppression, there must be systemic liberation, and I am in that zone… trying to condition myself in this relationship of a transhistorical liberation practice.” - Torkwase Dyson

Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory is the artist’s first solo exhibition in GRAY’s Chicago gallery. Installed over three distinct spaces, the exhibition debuts a monumental sculpture in steel and painted wood, an immersive installation of new paintings, and new cast glass and wood constructions. Of Line and Memory draws from years of research and Dyson’s own spatial memory of navigating the waterways and urban architecture of Chicago. Using the South Shore Cultural Center, a lakeshore landmark with rich historical and architectural significance, as a point of departure, Dyson extracts, reduces, and refines architectural and visual cues into geometric shapes and painterly abstractions.

Pictured: Installation view of Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory, 2024.

Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory closes this Saturday, January 25, 2025 at GRAY Chicago.

17/01/2025

UPCOMING EXHIBITION | David Hockney: Do remember they can’t cancel the Spring will open in April 2025 at Fondation Louis Vuitton bringing together more than 400 of his works (from 1955 to 2025) including paintings from international, institutional, and private collections, as well as works from the artist’s own studio and Foundation.

“This exhibition is particularly important to me because it’s the biggest I’ve ever had – the eleven galleries of the Fondation Louis Vuitton! Some of my very latest paintings, which I’m working on, will be there. It’s going to be good, I think.” – David Hockney

Pictured: 1. David Hockney, 27th March 2020, No. 1, 2020 iPad painting printed on paper, mounted on 5 panels, Exhibition Proof 2, 364.09 x 521.4 cm (143.343 x 205.276 inches) © David Hockney; 2. David Hockney, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, 1968. Acrylic on canvas on canvas 212.09 x 303.53 cm (83.5 x 119.5 inches) © David Hockney. Photo: Fabrice Gibert.

15/01/2025

ON VIEW | David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed is on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum through March 31, 2025.

The exhibition presents a wide body of works produced during a six-decade-long career. It features nearly 200 of the artist’s works in a variety of media, including prints, collages, photographs, iPhone as well as iPad drawings. Perspective Should Be Reversed highlights Hockney’s lifelong experiments with non-traditional perspectives for depicting the world and foregrounds his early interest in expressing his identity as a gay man.

Pictured: Installation views of “David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation”, Palm Springs Art Museum, November 23, 2024 – March 31, 2025.

13/01/2025

CLOSING SOON | Of Line and Memory, Dyson’s dynamic interplay of materials that emerges across three distinct bodies of work, closes on Saturday, January 25.

Of Line and Memory presents Dyson’s newest large-scale paintings, constructions in glass and wood, and Aya, a cantilevered steel, wood, and graphite sculpture in two parts, that balances monumental, curved shapes upon the weight of rectangular steel bases.Dyson’s new paintings unlock a sense of “state change” between thinly poured layers of deep blues and reds, opaque blacks, and the shapes and lines of geometric abstraction. Likewise, her Hypershape constructions in glass and graphite-coated wood balance the solidity of wood and graphite with the translucence of cast glass.

Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory will be on view at GRAY Chicago through January 25, 2025.

Pictured: Installation view of Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory, 2024.

09/01/2025

ON VIEW | Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, a major survey of artwork made during a transformative period characterized by new currents in science and philosophy and ever-increasing mechanization is currently on view at the Hishhorn Museum in Washington D.C.

Revolutions spotlights the rush of art-historical movements and genres that characterized the arc of Modernism and the ascendancy of abstraction, notably through the work of artists interested in engaging the mind, not just the eye. The exhibition includes contemporary work by 19 artists, including GRAY artist Torkwase Dyson, whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas and approaches arising during these 100 years remain critical today.

Pictured: Installation view of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, March 22, 2024 - April 20, 2025. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Rick Coulby.

Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960 is on view at Hirshhorn through April 20, 2025.

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WATCH NOW | Created for the Whitney Biennial’s inaugural Hyundai Terrace Commission, artist Torkwase Dyson describes the process of bringing her monumental installation to life in a new video feature. A space for meditation, interaction, and play, Torkwase Dyson’s Liquid Shadows, Solid Dreams (A Monastic Playground), 2024, serves as a symbol of ecology, belonging, and personal history for those who navigate its many passageways and resting places. Dyson invites visitors to experience the tactile, geometric sculpture within the shifting conditions of the Whitney’s outdoor terrace as it evolves within its environment, a prompt that speaks to the artist’s conviction that liberation can be found at every register of movement: “Freedom is an ongoing spatial question of motion and imagination.” Watch the full video here, or on our website (link in bio). Torkwase Dyson’s Liquid Shadows, Solid Dreams (A Monastic Playground) is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through February 9, 2025. Video: Hyundai Art Lab. @whitneymuseum @torkwasedyson @pacegallery @hyundai.artlab #whitneybiennial2024 #evenbetterthantherealthing

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ON VIEW | For the 2024 edition of #ArtBaselUnlimited, Torkwase Dyson debuts “Errantry” (2024), a monumental new sculptural installation that deploys geometric forms to create an interactive, architectural space. In this work, Dyson references histories of enslavement and architecture of dispossession to further examine human geography and propose spatial liberation strategies within a rubric Dyson calls Black Compositional Thought. For Dyson, the intertwining of abstraction and Blackness is a central philosophical concern that came out of an interest in public infrastructure. For the Whitney Biennial, her site-specific installation demonstrates the artists’ intertwining of abstraction and Blackness, which is a central philosophical concern that came out of an interest in public infrastructure. Torkwase Dyson’s “Errantry” (2024) is co-presented by GRAY and Pace. View the installation through June 16 in booth U7. Tap the link in bio for more details. @torkwasedyson @pace @artbasel #errantry #ArtBasel #ArtBaselUnlimited

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Founded in Chicago in 1963 and now located both in Chicago and New York, Richard Gray Gallery is one of the leading dealers in modern and contemporary American and European art, with museum as well as private clients worldwide.