Ross Bleckner News

Take a look at exclusive photos from Southampton Arts Center's SummerFest, featuring Ariana DeBose, Candace Bushnell, Jessica Vosk, and more. Get a glimpse into the star-studded event that brought together celebrities and artists for a memorable evening.

The Visual Arts Center in the Washington Pavilion is currently home to over 70 original works by more than 50 of the country's most celebrated artists including Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Chuck Close, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Thomas Moran and more.

The Jewish Museum has launched new audio tours that will illuminate works of art from the Museum's collection, highlight a range of perspectives, and provide an engaging experience for visitors of all backgrounds. Tours feature the voices of contemporary artists Maira Kalman, Isaac Mizrahi, Arlene Shechet, and Kehinde Wiley; curators and rabbis discussing Jewish traditions and rituals through ceremonial objects; students talking about art; verbal descriptions for visitors who are blind or have low vision; and a podcast-style conversation between artists Ross Bleckner and Deborah Kass discussing their work in the context of Jewish identity and LGBTQ+ history.

The Jewish Museum launches its winter/spring 2019 season of public programs in January with lectures, panel discussions, adult studio workshops, and more.

ROSS BLECKNER is known for painting a spectrum of subjects - from pulsating lines in his resurrection of Op art in the 1980s to the magnified cellular structures of autoimmune diseases in the 1990s and newer contemplative works from the past few years.

The glamorous ticketed event recognizes the sustained achievements of artists who received early career support from NYFA and the vision and commitment of enlightened patrons of the arts.

Dominique Le?vy is pleased to announce the gallery's representation of artist Pat Steir, who first gained recognition in the early 1970s for her iconographic canvases and immersive wall drawings. Steir's innovative pour technique, exemplified by the artist's Waterfall canvases, positioned her at the forefront of American painting in the late 1980s. Bridging the sensibilities of Eastern philosophy, Abstract Expressionism, and Conceptual art, Steir's five-decade practice puts into play a new framework of space and perception.

Beginning today, February 25, 2016, Luxembourg & Dayan will present In the Making: Artists, Assistants, and Influence, a group exhibition that surveys the field of artistic production through a series of juxtapositions that reveal discrete dialogues between artists and their assistants both current and former.

New York...Beginning February 25, 2016, Luxembourg & Dayan will present In the Making: Artists, Assistants, and Influence, a group exhibition that surveys the field of artistic production through a series of juxtapositions that reveal discrete dialogues between artists and their assistants both current and former. 

The third in a series of exhibitions about the human body in contemporary art organized by Frist Center Chief Curator Mark Scala, PHANTOM BODIES: THE HUMAN AURA IN ART includes provocative artworks that address themes of trauma, loss, and transformation, while considering the possibility of an animating spirit that can exist independently of the body. The exhibition includes a selection of paintings, photography, videos, sculpture and installations by a noteworthy roster of contemporary international artists and will be on view in the Upper-Level Galleries from October 30, 2015, through February 14, 2016.

Beginning Monday, November 2, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will offer free admission to guests bringing nonperishable food items to donate to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee on Mondays through December. The items most needed by Second Harvest this year are peanut butter, canned chicken or tuna, canned vegetables, canned fruit, pasta and cereal. Since 2012, visitors to the Frist Center have contributed 12,012 pounds of donated food, which equates to 10,009 meals.

The third in a series of exhibitions about the human body in contemporary art organized by Frist Center Chief Curator Mark Scala,Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art includes provocative artworks that address themes of trauma, loss, and transformation, while considering the possibility of an animating spirit that can exist independently of the body. The exhibition includes a selection of paintings, photography, videos, sculpture and installations by a noteworthy roster of contemporary international artists and will be on view from October 10, 2015, through February 14, 2016.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (September 10, 2015) - The third in a series of exhibitions about the human body in contemporary art organized by Frist Center Chief Curator Mark Scala,Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art includes provocative artworks that address themes of trauma, loss, and transformation, while considering the possibility of an animating spirit that can exist independently of the body. The exhibition includes a selection of paintings, photography, videos, sculpture and installations by a noteworthy roster of contemporary international artists and will be on view from October 30, 2015, throughFebruary 14, 2016.

The third in a series of exhibitions about the human body in contemporary art organized by Frist Center Chief Curator Mark Scala, PHANTOM BODIES: THE HUMAN AURA IN ART includes provocative artworks that address themes of trauma, loss, and transformation, while considering the possibility of an animating spirit that can exist independently of the body. The exhibition includes a selection of paintings, photography, videos, sculpture and installations by a noteworthy roster of contemporary international artists and will be on view in the Upper-Level Galleries from October 30, 2015, through February 14, 2016.

Lehmann Maupin will present Future Seasons Past, a reflective celebration of its history and a look forward to its future. The gallery has garnered a reputation for supporting international artists at various stages of their careers and presenting work that reaches across disciplines, bringing forward new and challenging forms of creative expression. Known for its long relationships with artists, Lehmann Maupin has had a lasting impact on individual careers as well as on contemporary art and culture.

Lehmann Maupin will present Future Seasons Past, a reflective celebration of its history and a look forward to its future. The gallery has garnered a reputation for supporting international artists at various stages of their careers and presenting work that reaches across disciplines, bringing forward new and challenging forms of creative expression. Known for its long relationships with artists, Lehmann Maupin has had a lasting impact on individual careers as well as on contemporary art and culture.

32 works of art have been donated by California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) alumni, faculty and friends, including works by John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Mike Kelley, Robert Longo, Cathy Opie, Ed Ruscha, Tony Oursler and Jennifer Steinkamp.

32 works of art have been donated by California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) alumni, faculty and friends, including works by John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Mike Kelley, Robert Longo, Cathy Opie, Ed Ruscha, Tony Oursler and Jennifer Steinkamp.

On 8 March 2014, Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Chelsea location an exhibition of new paintings by Ross Bleckner. Bleckner has for forty years investigated the intersection of psychology, biology, and personal identity through painting. The result has been markedly different series of work - from geometric abstraction, to space suggested through nebulous fields or stripes, to painterly systems of constellations and architecture, to explicitly symbolic works employing images of urns, chandeliers, flags, birds, flowers, words and numbers, blood or brain cells.