Berry Campbell Gallery
{{Short description|Art gallery in Manhattan, New York}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Berry Campbell Gallery
| location = {{ubl|524 West 26th Street, New York}}
| established = 2013
| type = Art gallery
| website = {{URL|berrycampbell.com}}
}}
Berry Campbell Gallery is an art gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Its founders and directors are Christine Berry and Martha Campbell. The gallery focuses on historical and contemporary artists associated with American modernism.{{cite web |url=https://berrycampbell.com/gallery |title=About the Gallery |website=Berry Campbell Gallery |access-date=2020-07-15}}
History
Christine Berry and Martha Campbell met while both were working at the Spanierman Gallery. They established Berry Campbell Gallery in 2013. In 2015, Berry Campbell Gallery took over a neighboring gallery space and expanded to 4,000 square feet.{{cite news |title=Berry Campbell Gallery is Expanding |date=July 22, 2015 |work=Artfix Daily |url=https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/8086-berry-campbell-gallery-is-expanding}} In September 2022 it moved to a 9,000 square foot location formerly occupied by Paula Cooper Gallery and Robert Miller Gallery.{{cite news
|title=Berry Campbell Announces its New Location
|work=Artsy.net
|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/berry-campbell-gallery-berry-campbell-announces-new-location}}
Program
Berry Campbell Gallery specializes in American abstract expressionism, with an emphasis on artists who have been historically overlooked due to their gender, age, or race. In a 2020 interview with Surface, Berry said that she and Campbell "discovered a gap in the Chelsea art scene" because the galleries in the area that did show well known "postwar and abstract expressionist" artists had largely been forgotten and that led to them opening the Berry Campbell Gallery to bring back those artists "to the forefront by telling their stories and showcasing their contributions to the movement".{{cite news
|title=The Gallerist Duo Championing Unsung Postwar Artists
|date=September 10, 2020
|work=Surface
|url=https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/berry-campbell-gallery-interview/}}
Berry Campbell Gallery exhibitions have been widely reviewed by critics including Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, and Donald Kuspit.{{cite news |title=3 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home |date=April 2, 2020 |first=Roberta |last=Smith |authorlink=Roberta Smith |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/design/art-galleries-virtual-tour.html |access-date=April 14, 2023}}{{cite news |title=Puzzling Social Commentary and Silky Elegance in Bronze: Art Exhibits by Ivan Witenstein, Ken Greenleaf and Barbara Chase-Riboud |date=December 20, 2014 |first=Peter |last=Plagens |authorlink=Peter Plagens |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/puzzling-social-commentary-and-silky-elegance-in-bronze-1419038206}}
=Exhibitions=
After her death in 2010, a retrospective exhibition was held for the works of Charlotte Park in 2016 at the gallery, with Berry Campbell becoming the holder of Park's estate in the years following.{{cite news |last=Dorfman |first=John |date=2020 |title=Charlotte Park: The Quiet Abstractionist |url=https://www.artandantiquesmag.com/charlotte-park/ |work=Art & Antiques |access-date=April 14, 2023}} A traveling exhibition of Syd Solomon's work titled "Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed" was featured at the gallery in July 2016.{{cite news |last=Fugate |first=Marty |date=May 8, 2016 |title=Unmasking the art of Syd Solomon |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1787760718/F23F480C345247ABPQ |work=Sarasota Herald Tribune |access-date=May 6, 2023 |via=ProQuest}} In May 2020, Ida Kohlmeyer's exhibition "Cloistered" was held at the gallery focusing on her abstract paintings involving symmetrical symbols.{{cite news |title=Ida Kohlmeyer: Cloistered |date=May 18, 2020 |first=William |last=Corwin |work=The Brooklyn Rail |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2020/05/artseen/Ida-Kohlmeyer-Cloistered |access-date=April 14, 2023}} Edward Zutrau's works, also with the gallery as owners of his estate, were featured for the second time in an exhibition in June 2021 titled "Mandarin (Paintings from the 1950s)", described by the New York Observer as "colorful, giving, and showcase a decade-long fascination with abstract citrus-focused expression".{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Erin |date=June 1, 2021 |title=Best Gallery Exhibitions Summer 2021, From Salon 94 to Nancy Hoffman Gallery |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2535736326/F70B3E5DC8EA46DBPQ |work=New York Observer |access-date=April 16, 2023 |via=ProQuest}} An exhibit named "Lynne Drexler: The First Decade" was opened in October 2022 to showcase the work of the late Lynne Mapp Drexler, presenting the pieces she made between 1965 and 1969.{{cite news |last=Loos |first=Ted |date=October 22, 2022 |title=Out of Obscurity, Lynne Drexler's Abstract Paintings Fetch Millions |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2727136496/393A68E3E9AC49C8PQ |work=New York Times |access-date=April 18, 2023 |via=ProQuest}}{{cite news |title=The Art Market: Collecting |date=September 15, 2022 |first=Melanie |last=Gerlis |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/7a97cac3-f6cd-4c6b-8b16-5a0b11a92654 |access-date=May 6, 2023 |archive-date=January 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230120191147/https://www.ft.com/content/7a97cac3-f6cd-4c6b-8b16-5a0b11a92654 |url-status=bot: unknown }}
During the 2010's, multiple exhibitions by the Berry Campbell Gallery were given to the work of Walter Darby Bannard before and after his death in 2016, reviving his art from the "period of neglect" they had been in during the decades prior.{{cite news |title=Walter Darby Bannard |date=June 3, 2015 |first=Phyllis |last=Tuchman |work=Artforum |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201506/walter-darby-bannard-52381 |access-date=May 6, 2023}}{{cite news |title=Walter Darby Bannard, Artist of the Color Field Movement, Dies at 82 |date=October 8, 2016 |first=William |last=Grimes |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/arts/design/darby-bannard-dead.html |access-date=May 6, 2023}}{{cite news |title=Walter Darby Bannard (1934–2016) |date=December 13, 2016 |first=Barbara |last=Rose |authorlink=Barbara Rose |work=Artforum |url=https://www.artforum.com/passages/barbara-rose-on-walter-darby-bannard-1934-2016-65312 |access-date=May 6, 2023}}
Selected artists represented
|url=https://berrycampbell.com/artist/Edward_Avedisian/info/
|title=Edward Avedisian (1936-2007)
|website=Berry Campbell Gallery
|access-date=2020-07-15}}
|title=Critics' Pick: Judith Godwin at Berry Campbell
|date=February 28, 2019
|first=Tausif |last=Noor
|work=Artforum
|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/judith-godwin-78784}}
|title=Elizabeth Osborne, Consummate Painter
|date=September 9, 2022
|first=Donald |last=Kuspit
|work=Whitehot Magazine
|url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/consummate-painter-by-donald-kuspit/5510}}
|url=https://berrycampbell.com/artist/Stephen_Pace/info/
|title=Stephen Pace (1918-2010)
|website=Berry Campbell Gallery
|access-date=2020-07-15}}
|url=https://berrycampbell.com/artist/William_Perehudoff/info/
|title=William Perehudoff (1918–2013)
|website=Berry Campbell Gallery
|access-date=2020-07-15}}
|title=Ann Purcell's Paintings Mix the New York School with the Free-For-All 1980s
|date=January 19, 2018
|first=R.C. |last=Baker
|work=The Village Voice
|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/01/19/ann-purcells-paintings-mix-the-new-york-school-with-the-free-for-all-1980s/}}{{cite news
|title=Gallery Chronicle
|date=February 2, 2018
|first=James |last=Panero |authorlink=James Panero
|work=The New Criterion
|url=https://newcriterion.com/issues/2018/2/gallery-chronicle-9490}}
|title=Berry Campbell Presents Survey of Frank Wimberley Paintings
|date=May 21, 2019
|first=Michelle
|last=Trauring
|work=Sag Harbor Express
|url=https://sagharborexpress.com/berry-campbell-presents-survey-of-frank-wimberley-paintings/
|access-date=July 15, 2020
|archive-date=July 15, 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715232458/https://sagharborexpress.com/berry-campbell-presents-survey-of-frank-wimberley-paintings/
|url-status=dead
|title=The Art Scene 05.30.19
|date=May 30, 2019
|first=Mark |last=Segal
|work=The East Hampton Star
|url=https://www.easthamptonstar.com/arts/2019-06-03/art-scene-053019}}{{cite news
|title=Artist Frank Wimberley, at 94, is still full of surprises
|date=March 3, 2021
|first=Troy |last=McMullen
|work=ABC News
|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/artist-frank-wimberley-94-full-surprises/story?id=76184787}}
|title=Larry Zox
|date=September 1, 2017
|first=Donald |last=Kuspit |authorlink=Donald Kuspit
|work=Artforum
|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/201707}}
External links
- [https://berrycampbell.com/ Berry Campbell Gallery website]
References
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