Sentences with phrase «run tanager»
Dodd speaks about starting the artist run Tanager Gallery, her choice to be an observational painter at the height of Abstract Expressionism and her «minimal» approach.
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INVENTING DOWNTOWN: ARTIST - RUN GALLERIES IN NEW YORK CITY, 1952 - 1965 Fourteen artist - run and experimental spaces, including Judson Church and the Tanager and Reuben Galleries, serve as test cases for examining the development of Happenings, video, performance and other new art forms.
The figurative painter Lois Dodd, the last living founder of the Tanager Gallery (1952 - 1962), the most influential of the artist - run galleries that clustered on East 10th Street, said it was difficult for people in today's supercharged contemporary art world to imagine how profoundly uninterested collectors and dealers were in the 1950s in most art being made at the time.
In 1952 she was one of the five founding members of the legendary Tanager Gallery on 10th Street, one the first artist - run cooperative galleries in New York.
She was one of the founders of the Tanager Gallery, which was integral to the Tenth Street - avant - garde scene of the 1950s where artists began running their own coop galleries.
Most of what I know about art I learned by listening to artists in their lofts; at The Club (which I ran from 1957 to 1962), where the Abstract Expressionists met for panel discussions, lectures, drinking, and dancing; the Cedar Street Tavern; and the Tenth Street cooperative galleries, notably the Tanager Gallery (which I managed from 1956 to 1959).
I got a job managing the Tanager Gallery, the leading artists» cooperative on Tenth Street and then I began to run the Club and arrange the panels.