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Grey Art Gallery
Map
Established1975
Location100 Washington Square East
New York University
New York, New York
TypeArt gallery
WebsiteOfficial website

Grey Art Gallery is New York University's fine art museum, located on historic Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, New York City.

The Grey Art Gallery was founded in 1975 with the acquisition of Francis Picabia's Resonateur (1922), [1] and Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting (1949-50), oversees the art collection of New York University. The collection includes approximately 6,000 works of art, most of which date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Pablo Picasso's Bust of Sylvette [2] in University Village (Manhattan), and Joseph Cornell's Chocolat Menier (1952), [3] and works by Romare Bearden, [4] Henri Matisse, Joan Mirò, Ilya Bolotowsky, Elaine de Kooning, [5] Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, [6]Adolph Gottlieb, Kenneth Noland, Jane Freilicher, Ad Reinhardt, and Alex Katz, among others. [7]

Since 1997, under the directorship of Lynn Gumpert, [8] the exhibition space has hosted several traveling art exhibitions each year, as well as a wide range of its own fine and applied arts media, including painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking, photography, architecture, decorative arts, film, video and performance art shows. [9] Retrospectives of contemporary artists and exhibits of critical interest, accompanied by scholarly publications, symposia, and lectures, include Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars, [10] and Sonia Delaunay: A Retrospective. [11] The Grey Art Gallery collects, preserves, studies, documents, interprets and exhibits the evidence of human culture.[12]

History

Patron and founder of the museum and study center, Mrs. Abby Weed Grey [13] collected some 1,000 works of contemporary art on her travels throughout India, [14] Turkey, and Iran, including works by Parviz Tanavoli, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Siah Armajani, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, and Faramarz Pilaram, which would later comprise the Grey Art Gallery Collection of Contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern Art. Mrs. Grey was interested in traditional craft, and her collecting focused on connections and juxtapositions among the past and present in the works of the contemporary artists of her time. [15][16] [17]Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Mrs. Grey undertook curatorial projects, including Fourteen Contemporary Iranians, (1962-65), Turkish Art Today (1966-70), each of which toured throughout the United States; Communication Through Art, (1964) which opened simultaneously in Istanbul, Tehran, and Lahore before traveling for five years throughout the eastern Mediterranean, Asia, and eastern Africa, and a major art fair titled One World Through Art. [18] [19] Mrs. Grey also served on the Board of Trustees of The Minnesota Society of Fine Arts from 1967-1973, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design's Board of Overseers from 1964-1983. Mrs. Grey endowed the Grey Fellowship in Museum Studies at the Walker Art Center, and in 1979, established and endowed the The Grey Fine Arts Library and Study Center, a resource of the Department of Fine Arts, at New York University. [20]

From the 1920s to the mid-1940s, the same location on the NYU campus housed the Gallery of Living Art established by Albert Eugene Gallatin.

Exhibitions & Public Programs

  • 2015: 'GLOBAL/LOCAL 1960-2015: SIX ARTISTS FROM IRAN [21]
  • 2015: For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979 [22] [23]
  • 2015: Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera [24]
  • 2015: The Left Front: Radical Art in the ‘Red Decade,’ 1929-1940 [25] [26][27]
  • 2014: Ernest Cole, Photographer [28]
  • 2014: Energy That Is All Around: Mission School [29]
  • 2013: Modern Iranian Art: Selections From the Abby Weed Grey Collection at N.Y.U. [30]
  • 2013 Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg. [31]
  • 2013: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. [32]
  • 2012: Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings From the Blanton Museum of Art [33]
  • 2011: John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist [34]
  • 2011: Art/Memory/Place: Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire [35]
  • 2011: Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life. [36]
  • 2010: Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente [37]
  • 2008: The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art. [38]
  • 2008: New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection, Grey Art Gallery, New York University [39]
  • 2009: John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning. [40]
  • 2003: Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective. [41]
  • 2002: Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture. [42]
  • 1999: When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland. [43]
  • 1997: Nahum B. Zenil: Witness to the Self"—an exhibition of provocative works by one of Mexico’s foremost contemporary artists . [44]
  • 1983: Picasso, the last years, 1963-1973 [45]
  • 1985: Precious : an American cottage industry of the eighties [46]
  • 1975: Inaugural exhibition, New York University, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center [47]

References

  1. ^ Rowell, Margit (1997). Objects of desire: the modern still life. New York: Museum of Modern Art. p. 223.
  2. ^ Lee, Jennifer 8. (June 24, 2008). "A Picasso Muse Wants to Protect Pei Towers". The New York Times: City Room.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Jackson, Virginia (2013). Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading (reprint ed.). Princeton University Press. p. 320. ISBN 1400850754.
  4. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (2005). "Art". No. Volume 38. New York Magazine Company. {{cite news}}: |issue= has extra text (help)
  5. ^ Hampson, Robert; Montgomery, Will (September 1, 2010). Frank O'Hara Now: New Essays on the New York Poet (1st ed.). Liverpool University Press. ISBN 1846312337.
  6. ^ "Museum Collections: Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection". The Archile Gorky Foundation.
  7. ^ "Grey Art Gallery". New York Magazine.
  8. ^ "New director for Grey Art Gallery". Art In America. 85 (1): 25. January 1997.
  9. ^ Schwendener, Martha (September 7, 2015). "Museum and Gallery Listings for the Fall and Beyond". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  10. ^ Ollman, Leah; San Diego, Calif., Museum of Photographic Arts (1991). Camera as weapon : worker photography between the wars.
  11. ^ Esplund, Lance (May 12, 2011). "Overdue but Underdone". The Wall Street Journal: Arts & Entertainment.
  12. ^ Dim, Joan M.; Cricco, Nancy (2000). The Miracle on Washington Square. New York: Lexington Books. p. 302. ISBN 9780739102169.
  13. ^ Danilov, Victor J. (2005). Woman And Museums: a comprehensive guide. AltaMira Press. p. 296. ISBN 9780759108554.
  14. ^ "NYU's Grey Art Gallery exhibits 20th century Indian art from its remarkable holdings". Art Daily. December 31, 2015.
  15. ^ Cembalest, Robin (February 7, 2013). "The Other Modernism: Rediscovering Iran's Avant-Garde". ARTNEWS.
  16. ^ "Abby Weed Grey, Art Patron And Founder of Study Center". New York Times Obituaries. June 4, 1983.
  17. ^ Grey, Abby Weed (1983). The Picture Is the Window, the Window Is the Picture. New York: New York Univ Press. ISBN 0814729886.
  18. ^ "Grey, Abby Weed, 1902-1983. Papers, 1922-1978 (bulk 1960-1974)".
  19. ^ Gumpert, Lynn; Balaghi, Shiva (2002). Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. ISBN 1860648835.
  20. ^ "Abby Weed Grey and family papers, 1811-1983 (bulk 1910s - 1970s)".
  21. ^ Schwendener, Martha (September 7, 2015). "Museum and Gallery Listings for the Fall and Beyond". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  22. ^ Lee, Min-Wei. "Grey Art Gallery houses post-WWII Japan photography". Washington Square News.
  23. ^ Johnson, Ken (November 5, 2015). "Museum & gallery Listings from Nov. 6-12". The New York Times.
  24. ^ Johnson, Ken (April 23, 2015). "Review: Tseng Kwong Chi's Darkly Comic Images at Grey Art Gallery". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  25. ^ Ebony, David. "Seeing Red: NYU's Grey Art Gallery Revisits America's Socialist Moment in Full".
  26. ^ Cotter, Holland (January 22, 2015). "Raging at Racism, From Streets to Galleries Smack Mellon and Grey Art Display Art Sparked by Politics". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  27. ^ Kotecki (February 4, 2015). "Block Museum exhibit travels to NYU's Grey Art Gallery". The Daily Northwestern.
  28. ^ Cotter, Holland (September 11, 2014). "Capturing Apartheid's Daily Indignity What Ernest Cole's Hidden Camera Revealed". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  29. ^ Johnson, Ken (April 24, 2014). "Prickly but Puppyish in San Francisco 5 Artists in 'Energy That Is All Around: Mission School". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  30. ^ Cotter, Holland (September 5, 2013). "Modernism Blooming in Iran Shows at Asia Society and N.Y.U. Grey Art Gallery". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  31. ^ Johnson, Ken (January 17, 2013). "A Beat Poet's Colorful Crew, in Black and White 'Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg'".
  32. ^ Pollack, Marika (November 26, 2013). "On View: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art' at the Grey Art Gallery and the Studio Museum in Harlem". Observer.
  33. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (April 26, 2012). "Drawings of Continental Drift 'Storied Past' at N.Y.U.'s Grey Art Gallery". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  34. ^ Johnsm, Ken (April 14, 2011). "Forward-Looking Sculptures by a Man Straddling Two Worlds". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  35. ^ Rosen, Alana (March 24, 2011). "Art/Memory/Place: Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Collaborative Project Between the Grey Art Gallery and NYU Graduate Students". Tenament Museum.
  36. ^ Johnson, Ken (September 23, 2011). "Liberating Viewers, and the World, With Silliness". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  37. ^ Oisteanu, Valery (March 4, 2011). "Artseen: ESTEBAN VICENTE Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture". The Brooklyn Rail.
  38. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (October 9, 2008). "The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art". The New York Tims: Art & Design.
  39. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (April 25, 2008). "Looking Past the Cliché to See a Bit of the Edge". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  40. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (May 21, 2009). "A Photographer Who Refused to Think Like a Photographer". The New York Times: Art & Design.
  41. ^ Stevens, Mark (September 22, 2003). "Zen and Now: An artist whose witty Conceptual gems from the Vietnam era to the present transcend the merely absurd to reveal deeper truths". New York Magazine: Art.
  42. ^ Cotter, Holland (September 27, 2002). "ART REVIEW; Modernism Gets a Revolutionary Makeover in Iran". The New York Times: Arts.
  43. ^ Stewart. Ed., James (1998). When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland. Merrell Holberton. p. 256. ISBN 1858940591.
  44. ^ Bonetti, David (March 15, 1996). "Nahum Zenil: "Witness to the Self"". San Francisco Chronicler.
  45. ^ Picasso, P; Schiff, G.; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center (1983). "Picasso, the last years, 1963-1973". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  46. ^ Sokolowski, T.W.; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center (1985). "Precious : an American cottage industry of the eighties, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, March 19-May 4, 1985". OCLC 12860014. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  47. ^ Grey Art Gallery & Study Center; Grey, A.W. "Inaugural exhibition, New York University, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center". OCLC 2644133. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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