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

Gray is a leading art gallery with locations in Chicago and New York promoting contemporary artists and presenting modern masters since 1963.

ON VIEW | David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Fami...
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.

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

CLOSING SOON | On view at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich through February 16, 2025, Alex Katz: Portraits and Landscapes...
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.

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

ON VIEW | On view at the Stony Island Arts Bank, “When Clouds Roll Away: Reflections and Restoration of the Johnson Publ...
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.

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

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

FINAL WEEK | “If there is systemic oppression, there must be systemic liberation, and I am in that zone… trying to condi...
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.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION | David Hockney: Do remember they can’t cancel the Spring will open in April 2025 at Fondation Louis...
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.

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

CLOSING SOON | Of Line and Memory, Dyson’s dynamic interplay of materials that emerges across three distinct bodies of w...
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.

ON VIEW | Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, a major survey of artwork made during a transformat...
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.

ON VIEW | Of Line and Memory draws from years of research and Dyson’s own spatial memory of navigating the waterways and...
06/01/2025

ON VIEW | 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.

“As we move through dramatic and ever-changing geographies, what memories are stored in these new and improvisational choreographies?” Dyson asks. “I think through how the transhistorical ethos of infrastructure space, both visible and invisible, resonates in liberation and world-building.”

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.

HOLIDAY HOURS | As 2024 draws to a close, we thank you for your support of the gallery artists and programming this year...
20/12/2024

HOLIDAY HOURS | As 2024 draws to a close, we thank you for your support of the gallery artists and programming this year. From all of us at GRAY, we wish you a happy and healthy holiday season!

GRAY’s spaces in Chicago and New York will be closed from Sunday, December 22, 2024, through New Year’s Day. We will reopen on Thursday, January 2, 2025.

Pictured: Jaume Plensa, Crown Fountain, 2004. © Jaume Plensa

ON VIEW | Now on view through January 25, David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) presents some of t...
16/12/2024

ON VIEW | Now on view through January 25, David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) presents some of the artist’s most iconic works across monumentally scaled, state-of-the-art projections and a revolutionary sound system at Aviva Studios in Manchester.

First presented at Lightroom in London, this next iteration of David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) journeys through six different chapters of the artist’s career, covering Hockney’s work from LA to Yorkshire, all the way up to the present day in Normandy. Monumental projections depict Hockney’s larger-than-life images across numerous galleries, offering visitors the opportunity to hear from Hockney himself as he experiments with perspective, uses photography as a way of drawing with a camera, and captures the passing of time with his polaroid collages. The exhibition is set against a composed score by Nico Muhly.

Pictured: 1-3. David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away), 2024. Aviva Studios, home of Factory International. Photo by Justin Sutcliffe.

ON VIEW | Now on view at Musée de Valence Art et Archéologie in Valencia, France, a new exhibition for Jaume Plensa cele...
10/12/2024

ON VIEW | Now on view at Musée de Valence Art et Archéologie in Valencia, France, a new exhibition for Jaume Plensa celebrates the thirty-year anniversary of his 1994 Biennale, “One Sculptor, One City.” Featuring over 60 works by the artist, the exhibition, titled Être là, was conceived as a poetic journey through drawings and sculptures created over the past three decades.

In addition to the exhibition, the anniversary of Plensa’s 1994 biennial was honored by the City of Valencia with the commission of a permanent public artwork, “The Messenger.” Dedicated on November 9 on Place des Ormeaux, a historic square in Valencia located between the Saint-Apollinaire cathedral and the museum of art and archaeology, The Messenger measures over four meters high and is made of stainless steel. Letters from various linguistic alphabets depict a figure in a seated position, evoking the human form as a universal symbol of humanity.

Pictured: 1. Jaume Plensa, Le Messager, 2024; 2-3. Installation views from Jaume Plensa: Être là, at Musée de Valence Art et Archéologie in Valencia, France. Courtesy of Jaume Plensa Studio.

ON VIEW | On the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach, for the fair’s Kabinett sector, GRAY debuts a new installation by Th...
06/12/2024

ON VIEW | On the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach, for the fair’s Kabinett sector, GRAY debuts a new installation by Theaster Gates. Created in 2024, Curious Curio presents an assembly of ceramic forms, reflecting on the vessel as the focal point of gathering and ritual. A medium central to the artist’s practice, Gates highlights clay’s social and artistic potential beyond the historical and canonical confines of utilitarian craft.

“Clay is a necessary ritual for me because it offers me an opportunity to see the world in its plastic state and order it with my hands,” says Gates. “Clay doesn’t beg permission to be anything; it is already everything. I want to offer clay the chance to be more than the minor arts, because it makes space for our humanity and links us to our founding creativity. Clay should function in the vanguard of contemporary artistic production and be recognized for its contribution to every significant era of modern sculpture.”

Fired in Gates’s kilns in Chicago, these vessels honor clay’s alchemical ability to act as a transcultural tool of colonial resistance, economic power, spiritual possibility, and cultural preservation. Gates’s cabinet uses regular plywood and salvaged marble and is inhabited by ceramic forms and sculptures of all shapes and sizes. Expressed without hierarchy and free of historical relegation of craft, Gates offers clay something more immediate, tangible, and significant.

ON VIEW | This week, visit GRAY at Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth H9, and view works from the gallery’s Modern and contemp...
05/12/2024

ON VIEW | This week, visit GRAY at Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth H9, and view works from the gallery’s Modern and contemporary programs, including Evelyn Statsinger’s Layering, 1990; Leon Polk Smith’s Black-White Diagonal, 1957; and McArthur Binion’s self:portrait, 2024.

Among these works, GRAY also features work by Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates, Leon Golub, David Hockney, Rashid Johnson, Alex Katz, Judy Ledgerwood, Jim Lutes, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, and Jaume Plensa. Link in bio to learn more.

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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.