The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced Nekisha Durrett and Jackie Milad were selected to create new works in dialogue with Fred Wilson’s Artemis/Bast (1992). These two artists responded with compelling proposals that engage with the provocation: “What images and thoughts emerge [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2022
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An Andy Warhol original acrylic and screenprint on canvas titled Flowers (1965), plus vibrant original artworks by Alden Mason, Morris Graves, Dale Chihuly, Z. Z. Wei, Kenjiro Nomura and other art world notables will come up for bid in an online-only Modernism: [Read More]
NEW ORLEANS, La. – A set of four atlas portfolio volumes of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, a felt on paper artwork by pop art icon Keith Haring and oil on canvas paintings by acclaimed painters E. S. Cooper and [Read More]
BROOKLYN, NY – Opening our new fall season on September 8th, 440 Gallery is pleased to present Nature/ Nurture, a solo show of mixed media work by Karen Gibbons. Inspired by nature, these vibrant, eclectic pieces dynamically blend collage, drawing, and painting [Read More]
Original oil paintings by Igor Tulpanov (Russian-American, b. 1939), Jean Baptiste Van Loo (French, 1684-1745) and Eastman Johnson (American, 1824-1906) are a few of the expected top lots in Ahlers & Ogletree’s three-day, online-only Fine Estates & Collections auction planned for the [Read More]
In 2019, Langson IMCA Museum Director Kim Kanatani invited artist Peter Alexander to curate an exhibition of California Impressionism from the museum’s collections. Prior to his untimely death in 2020, Alexander had begun identifying works in the permanent collection with which he [Read More]
Dissolve, comprises 20 works—including two new commissions—by artists who explore modes of transformation across mediums in their diverse practices. Featuring two artworks commissioned expressly for the exhibition, Dissolve explores how 12 contemporary artists perceive what it means to change from one form [Read More]
440 Gallery have announced a Call for Entries for the 16th annual Small Works Show 2022, juried by Johnny Thornton. This national, juried exhibition celebrates the innovation of artists who create work on a small scale, in a broad range of media [Read More]
On November 20, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will open the first U.S. museum exhibition of works by acclaimed Senegalese contemporary artist Omar Ba. Born outside of Dakar and living between Dakar, Brussels, and Geneva, Ba creates expressive figurative paintings that [Read More]
This November 20th, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will open the first comprehensive museum exhibition on the profoundly moving and complex work of Darrel Ellis (1958-1992). Over the course of his brief career, Ellis developed a distinct studio practice that merged [Read More]
BROOKLYN, NY – 440 Gallery is pleased to present Body Politic, an invitational exhibition curated by the gallery’s director Amanda Michele Brown. Since antiquity, art has served as a tool to convey a societal “ideal.” This show challenges that function by celebrating [Read More]
A figural oil painting by the acclaimed Indian artist B. Prabha (1933-2001) and an aristocratic portrait painting by Francis Cotes (U.K., 1726-1770) are expected headliners in an online-only Fine & Decorative Art auction slated for Monday, August 1st, by Bruneau & Co. [Read More]
440 Gallery’s 2022 Summer Theme Exhibition, Sequential Synergy: The Art of Comics, explores the forms that comics can take and how they affect us. Cartoonists are not merely visual artists but also writers, designers, directors, and most of all, acute observers of [Read More]
Sonntag’s 1850 painting Ohio River Near Maysville, Kentucky, part of CMC’s History Objects and Fine Art Collection, reflects the local landscape at a time when mastodons roamed the region. The discovery of mastodon bones at nearby Big Bone Lick in 1739 caught [Read More]