UPCOMING ART FAIR

Frieze New York
Booth D11
May 17–21, 2023
For Frieze New York 2023, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present 1973, a group exhibition featuring works created in the months leading up to and immediately following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision of January 22, 1973 in the case of Roe v. Wade. Widely understood as a major victory for the second-wave feminist movement that was then at its peak, the ruling was a watershed moment for the nation and many artists were commensurately inspired by the empowerment it granted. Fifty years hence, the revocation of the rights conferred by Roe has revealed the disproportionate measure of power wielded by an unelected group of judges acting on behalf of the minority of Americans who oppose such freedoms. Coming into artistic maturity in an era of overt social and institutional sexism, the artists exhibited in 1973 levied their cultural cachet to resist the dominant social and political powers in a variety of ways.
 
1973 features an interdisciplinary selection of works by a diverse roster of artists including Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017), Hannelore Baron (1926–1987), Mary Bauermeister (1934–2023), Lee Bontecou (b.1931), Jay DeFeo (1929–1989), Barbara Chase-Riboud (b.1934), Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997), Nancy Grossman (b.1940), Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Betye Saar (b.1926), Alma Thomas (1891–1987), and Claire Zeisler (1903–1991). Ranging from the intimately personal to the grandly universal, 1973 conveys a tangible sense of the manifold materials, processes, and iconographies engaged by this revolutionary generation of artists. Though not all of the works in the presentation are overtly political, an undercurrent of feminist thought, and political struggle is evident in each artists’ oeuvre and the exhibition as a whole.

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Exhibitions

Bob Thompson: Agony & Ecstasy

On view through May 26, 2023
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
100 Eleventh Avenue, New York, NY

In a recent article for The New Yorker writer Jackson Arn names the current Michael Rosenfeld Gallery exhibition Bob Thompson: Agony & Ecstasy a must-see.

Visit Michael Rosenfeld Gallery to view this "unmissable" selection of works by Thompson.

Benny Andrews in That '70s Show

May 18–21, 2023
Eric Firestone Loft
4 Great Jones Street, New York, NY

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present selections from Benny Andrews' "Sexism" series in That '70s Show. A community of New York galleries that are invested in scholarship will present selections by artists making work during the 1970s, in an exhibition aimed to create dialogue.