Tenth street galleries
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The Tenth Street galleries was a collective term for the co-operative galleries that operated mainly in the Lower East Side
of Manhattan
, New York
in the 1950s and 1960s. The galleries were artist run and generally operated on very low budgets, often without any staff. Some artists became members of more than one gallery. The 10th Street galleries were an avant-garde
alternative to the Madison Avenue and 57th Street galleries that were both conservative and highly selective.
, many galleries began as an outgrowth of an artistic community that had sprung up in a particular area of downtown Manhattan. The streets between 8th Street and 14th Street, between 5th and 3rd Avenues attracted many serious painters and sculptors where studio and living space could be found at a relatively inexpensive cost. Finding the audience for vanguard
contemporary art
to be small and the venues in which to show few, artists began to band together to launch and maintain galleries as a solution to the lack of other showing opportunities. Thus began a neighborhood in which several, (some now legendary) co-operative galleries were formed, (and a few non co-operative galleries as well).
Many of the artists who showed in these galleries, which are often referred to as the Tenth Street Co-ops or the Tenth Street Scene, have since become well known. Other artists who showed in these galleries are still under known, but in many cases have continued to work with zeal and dedication whether or not they are now famous. Some of the most well-known galleries that made the area what it was were: the Tanager Gallery, The March Gallery, The Hansa Gallery, The Brata Gallery, The James Gallery, The Phoenix Gallery, The Camino Gallery and the Area Gallery. Although the 10th Street galleries have almost all closed The Phoenix Gallery remains albeit in a new location and with a new membership.
"Approximately 250 artists were dues-paying members of these co-operative galleries between 1952 and 1962. More than 500 artists and possibly close to 1000 artists exhibited on Tenth Street during those years." Several older and more established artists such as Willem de Kooning
, Franz Kline
and Milton Resnick
maintained studios nearby and often served a supporting role for the many younger artists who gravitated to this scene.
During the most active years of the Tenth Street cooperatives, sculptors William King
, David Slivka, James Rosati
, George Spaventa, Sidney Geist, Israel Levitan
, Gabriel Kohn and Raymond Rocklin, became known as representatives of the Tenth Street style of sculpture, even though there was remarkable diversity in their works.
Other galleries associated with the area and the time were the Fleischman Gallery, the Nonagon Gallery, the Reuben Gallery, the Terrain Gallery
and the gallery at the Judson Church, which were not co-operatives.
The galleries on Tenth Street (and environs) played a significant part in the growth of American art
and in the diversification of styles that are evident in the art world of today. The Tenth Street scene was also a social scene, and openings often happened simultaneously on common opening days. This afforded a way for many artists to mingle with each other and the writers, poets, curators and occasional collectors who gravitated to the scene. The artists and galleries that made up the Tenth Street scene were a direct predecessor to the SoHo
gallery scene and the more recent Chelsea
galleries.
, Perle Fine
, Sidney Geist, Joseph Groell, Nanno de Groot, Sally Hazelet, *Angelo Ippolito, Ben Isquith, Lester Johnson
, Alex Katz
, * Wiliam King
, Nicholas Marsicano
, *Fred Mitchell
, George Earl Ortman
, Philip Pearlstein
, Frank Stout, Raymond Rocklin, Sal Sirugo, Tom Wesselmann
, Mary Abbott, Charlotte Park.
, Maurice Barr, *Jacques Beckwith, Robert Beauchamp
, Lilly Brody, *Jean Follett, * Barbara Forst, *Miles Forst, Hedi Fuchs, Paul Georges
, *John Gruen, Dan Haugard, *Wolf Kahn
, *Allan Kaprow
, Fay Lansner, Andrew Martin, Dody Muller, *Jan Müller
, *Felix Pasillis, George Segal
, * Arnold Singer, * Richard Stankiewicz, Myron Stout, Robert Whitman
, *Jane Wilson. Directors of the Hansa Gallery were Richard Bellamy and Ivan Karp.
, Lester Elliot, Alice Forman, Connie Fox-Boyd, *Andree Golbin, *Sam Goodman, Jorge Goya-Lukich, Philip Held, Jon Henry, *Stanton Kreider, *John Krushenick
, *Nicholas Krushenick
, Don Kunz, June Lathrop, Aaron Levy, Len Meiselman, Alice Neel
, *Bart Perry, Jack Arnold Rabinowitz, Elaine Booth Selig, Gertrude Shibley, Sal Sirugo, Pat Sloane, Leon Polk Smith
, Paul Waldman, Alida Walsh, Jo Warner * Samuel G. Weiner, *Florence Weinstein. (The Camino closed in November 1963. At that time 6 members, Alice Forman, Philip Held, Aaron Levy, Gertrude Shibley, Alida Walsh and Florence Weinstein, joined the Phoenix Gallery which had moved uptown to 939 Madison Avenue. The directors of the Camino Gallery were: Howard Rackliff, Bruno Palmer-Poroner, Bruce Glaser, David Feinstein, David Rosenberg, and Margot Sylvestre.
, *Waldemar Baranowski, *Robert Beauchamp, *June Corwine, Elaine de Kooning
, Mark di Suvero
, *Francine Fels (Felsenthal), *William Gambini, *Joann Gedney, Paul Georges
, Burt Green, *Burt Hassen, Bob Hauge, *Budd Hopkins
, * Richard Ireland, *Lester Johnson
, * Matsumi Kanemitsu, Gesha Kurakin, * David Lund, * Boris Lurie, *Marcia Marcus, Joan Mathews, Hugh Mezibov, *Steve Montgomery, **Felix Pasilis, *Patricia Passlof, Leo Rabkin, *Wallace Reiss, Marlene Schwanzel, Bill Seibring, *Ray Spillenger, *Peter Stander, Robert Tannen, Yvonne Thomas, Bob Tieman, Beate Wheeler, *Tom Young, Mario Yrissary, Anthe Zacharias, Athos Zacharias, * Wilfrid Zogbaum.
, *Bill Creston, *Berenice D'Vorzon, John Dunlop, Peter Forakis
, *Joseph Feldman, Harold Goldstein, *Al Held
, Roger Jorensen, *Robert Kobayashi, *Joseph Konzai, **John Krushenick
, **Nicholas Krushenick
, *Yayoi Kusama
, *Nanae Momiayama, Frank Montgomery, David Owens, *Jack Arnold Rabinowitz, *Salvatore M. Romano, David Seccombe, Frank Sepa, William P. Sildar, Hal Silvermintz, Patricia Stegman, *Knute Stiles, Sylvia Stone, *George Sugarman, *Julius Tobias, *Louis Trakis, Wilhelmina Van Ness, *Felix Welensky.
, Judith Hart, Pat Hartman, *John Hoffer, **Lenore Jaffee, *Edwin Jastram, Francis Jennings, *Ted Joans
, *John Kazann, Robert Kohls, Miriam Laufer, Michael Leff, Ann Leiter-Larsen, Tom Lenihan, ***Eleanore Lockspeiser, Robert Ludwig, *James Martin, *Jay Milder
, Earle Miller, William Pellicone, George Preston, Gwytha Pring, Arnold Price, John Pupura, Ingrid Rehert, Marlyn Ries, *John Servetas, Herbert Simon, Helen Soreff, Natalie Sterinbach, Robert Wiegand, Gerald Willen, Ralph Wehrenberg, Peter Wrangel, Frank Yee, Zalmar.
Harvey Becker, *Tom Boutis, Lydia Brown, Jean Cohen, *John Ireland Colins, *Charles DuBack, *Joe Fiore, Ruth Fortel, *Norman Kanter, Tom Kendall, *Bernard Langlais, Ellen Leelike, Emily Mason
, Ernest Marciano, Doris Matthews, *Ed Moses
, *Daphne Mumford, Gordon Press, Philip Russell, Selina Trieff, Nadine Valenti, Conni Whidden Marjorie Windust, *Paul Yakovenko.
Lower East Side
The Lower East Side, LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is roughly bounded by Allen Street, East Houston Street, Essex Street, Canal Street, Eldridge Street, East Broadway, and Grand Street....
of Manhattan
Manhattan
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, New York
New York
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in the 1950s and 1960s. The galleries were artist run and generally operated on very low budgets, often without any staff. Some artists became members of more than one gallery. The 10th Street galleries were an avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
alternative to the Madison Avenue and 57th Street galleries that were both conservative and highly selective.
History
From the early 1950s through the mid 1960s (and beyond) in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, many galleries began as an outgrowth of an artistic community that had sprung up in a particular area of downtown Manhattan. The streets between 8th Street and 14th Street, between 5th and 3rd Avenues attracted many serious painters and sculptors where studio and living space could be found at a relatively inexpensive cost. Finding the audience for vanguard
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
contemporary art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
to be small and the venues in which to show few, artists began to band together to launch and maintain galleries as a solution to the lack of other showing opportunities. Thus began a neighborhood in which several, (some now legendary) co-operative galleries were formed, (and a few non co-operative galleries as well).
Many of the artists who showed in these galleries, which are often referred to as the Tenth Street Co-ops or the Tenth Street Scene, have since become well known. Other artists who showed in these galleries are still under known, but in many cases have continued to work with zeal and dedication whether or not they are now famous. Some of the most well-known galleries that made the area what it was were: the Tanager Gallery, The March Gallery, The Hansa Gallery, The Brata Gallery, The James Gallery, The Phoenix Gallery, The Camino Gallery and the Area Gallery. Although the 10th Street galleries have almost all closed The Phoenix Gallery remains albeit in a new location and with a new membership.
"Approximately 250 artists were dues-paying members of these co-operative galleries between 1952 and 1962. More than 500 artists and possibly close to 1000 artists exhibited on Tenth Street during those years." Several older and more established artists such as Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Franz Kline
Franz Kline
Franz Jozef Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and attended Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys...
and Milton Resnick
Milton Resnick
Milton Resnick was a major abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his mystical, abstract and figurative paintings. Born in Bratslav, Russia, he emigrated to the United States in 1922.-Biography:...
maintained studios nearby and often served a supporting role for the many younger artists who gravitated to this scene.
During the most active years of the Tenth Street cooperatives, sculptors William King
William King (artist)
William King is a contemporary American sculptor born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1925. His work spans countless media and usually revolves around the figurative portrayal of human figures. After attending the University of Florida, King moved to New York in 1945 and graduated from Cooper Union in...
, David Slivka, James Rosati
James Rosati
James Rosati was an American abstract sculptor.Born in Pennsylvania, Rosati moved to New York in 1944, where he befriended fellow sculptor Philip Pavia. He was a charter member of the Eighth Street Club and the New York School of abstract expressionists...
, George Spaventa, Sidney Geist, Israel Levitan
Israel Levitan
Israel Levitan was an American abstract expressionist sculptor, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Renowned as a sculptor, Levitan also produced paintings, graphics and fine art works on paper....
, Gabriel Kohn and Raymond Rocklin, became known as representatives of the Tenth Street style of sculpture, even though there was remarkable diversity in their works.
Other galleries associated with the area and the time were the Fleischman Gallery, the Nonagon Gallery, the Reuben Gallery, the Terrain Gallery
Terrain Gallery
The Terrain Gallery, or the Terrain, is an art gallery and educational center in SoHo, New York City. It was founded in 1955 with a philosophic basis: the ideas of Aesthetic Realism and the Siegel Theory of Opposites, developed by American poet and educator Eli Siegel...
and the gallery at the Judson Church, which were not co-operatives.
The galleries on Tenth Street (and environs) played a significant part in the growth of American art
American Art
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and in the diversification of styles that are evident in the art world of today. The Tenth Street scene was also a social scene, and openings often happened simultaneously on common opening days. This afforded a way for many artists to mingle with each other and the writers, poets, curators and occasional collectors who gravitated to the scene. The artists and galleries that made up the Tenth Street scene were a direct predecessor to the SoHo
SoHo
SoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores...
gallery scene and the more recent Chelsea
Chelsea, Manhattan
Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The district's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, 30th Street to the north, the western boundary of the Ladies' Mile Historic District – which lies between the Avenue of the Americas and...
galleries.
The artists and the galleries
The following is a list of members of the co-operative galleries in the 1950s and 1960s (years next to gallery name denotes years of operation), artists with stars next to their names indicate either founding or original members:Tanager Gallery
Tanager Gallery, 1952 -1962: 90 East 10th Street, Fall 1953 - Summer 1962. 51 East 4th Street, Summer 1952-Fall 1953,(*Founders) *Charles Cajori, *Lois DoddLois Dodd
Lois Dodd was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927. She was educated at the Cooper Union in New York City from 1945-48. She is an abstract expressionist painter. She was the only woman founder of the Tanager Gallery, which was integral to the Tenth Street-avant-garde scene of the 1950s where...
, Perle Fine
Perle Fine
Perle Fine was among the most prominent female artists associated with American Abstract Expressionism.-Biography:Perle Fine was born in Boston, MA, in 1908. Her interest in art started at early age. In her early twenties she moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League with Kimon...
, Sidney Geist, Joseph Groell, Nanno de Groot, Sally Hazelet, *Angelo Ippolito, Ben Isquith, Lester Johnson
Lester Johnson (artist)
Lester Johnson was an American artist.As a figurative expressionist and member of the Second Generation of the New York School, painter Lester Johnson remained dedicated to the human figure as means of expression through the many stylistic changes of his oeuvre.In New York, Johnson exhibited at...
, Alex Katz
Alex Katz
Alex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...
, * Wiliam King
William King (artist)
William King is a contemporary American sculptor born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1925. His work spans countless media and usually revolves around the figurative portrayal of human figures. After attending the University of Florida, King moved to New York in 1945 and graduated from Cooper Union in...
, Nicholas Marsicano
Nicholas Marsicano
Nicholas Marsicano , American painter and teacher of the New York School, was married to Dancer/Choreagrapher Merle Marsicano...
, *Fred Mitchell
Fred Mitchell (artist)
Fred Mitchell belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world...
, George Earl Ortman
George Earl Ortman
George Earl Ortman is an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor. His work has been referred to as Neo-Dada, Pop art,Minimalism, and Hard Edge...
, Philip Pearlstein
Philip Pearlstein
Philip Pearlstein is an American painter, and part of the contemporary Realist school.-Biography:Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and received his Masters in art history at New York University. He was a friend of Andy Warhol from...
, Frank Stout, Raymond Rocklin, Sal Sirugo, Tom Wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.-Early years:...
, Mary Abbott, Charlotte Park.
Hansa Gallery
Hansa Gallery, 1952-1959. 70 East 12th Street - Fall 1952 - Fall 1954. 210 Central Park South, Fall 1954 - Summer 1959. (* denotes original members). Edward AvedisianEdward Avedisian
Edward Avedisian was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s. His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction.-Early career:He studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...
, Maurice Barr, *Jacques Beckwith, Robert Beauchamp
Robert Beauchamp
Robert Beauchamp was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with expressionistic colors. His work was described in the New York Times as being "both frightening and amusing,"...
, Lilly Brody, *Jean Follett, * Barbara Forst, *Miles Forst, Hedi Fuchs, Paul Georges
Paul Georges
Paul Georges was an American painter. He died at his home at Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, aged 77.He painted large-scale figurative allegories and satirical self-portraits....
, *John Gruen, Dan Haugard, *Wolf Kahn
Wolf Kahn
Wolf Kahn is a German-born American painter.Kahn is known for his combination of realism and Color Field, and known to work in pastel and oil paint. He studied under Hans Hofmann, and also graduated from the University of Chicago...
, *Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years...
, Fay Lansner, Andrew Martin, Dody Muller, *Jan Müller
Jan Müller (artist)
Jan Müller was a New York Figurative Expressionist of the 1950s. According to Carter Ratcliff, "His paintings usually erect a visual architecture sturdy enough to support an array of standing, riding, levitating figures...
, *Felix Pasillis, George Segal
George Segal (artist)
George Segal was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with a National Medal of Arts in 1999.-Works:...
, * Arnold Singer, * Richard Stankiewicz, Myron Stout, Robert Whitman
Robert Whitman
Robert Whitman is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making...
, *Jane Wilson. Directors of the Hansa Gallery were Richard Bellamy and Ivan Karp.
James Gallery
James Gallery, 1954-1962. 70 East 12th Street, Fall 1954- Summer 1962. (**founders *original members). Rita Deanin Abby, * Margaret Bartlett, *James Billmyer, * Nieves Marshalek Billmyer, Betty Biship, M.L. Bonnell, Dorothy Eisner, Stan Freborg, * William Freed, **James Gahagan, *Tom Hannan, *Phillip Harrington, *Myrna Harrison, *Robert Henry, Alice Hodges, Robert Kaupelis, Robert La Hotan, *Gene Lesser, Arthur Lieneck, **Charles Littler, *Alvin Most, *Haynes Ownby.Camino Gallery
Camino Gallery, 1956-1963. 92 East 10th Street, Fall 1956-Fall 1960. 89 East 10th Street, Fall 1960-Fall 1963. (* original members). *Ruth Abrams, Anneli Arms, S. Beerman, Theodore Brenson, Art Brenner, Kenneth Campbell, Francis Celentano, Jean Clad, Joe Clark, Ross Coates, Sally Cook, Daniel Cowan, John Curoi, *Don David, Leff Deffebach, Elaine de KooningElaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning was an Abstract Expressionist, Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era and editorial associate for Art News magazine...
, Lester Elliot, Alice Forman, Connie Fox-Boyd, *Andree Golbin, *Sam Goodman, Jorge Goya-Lukich, Philip Held, Jon Henry, *Stanton Kreider, *John Krushenick
John Krushenick
John Krushenick painter and co-founder of the Brata Gallery in New York City. He studied with Hans Hofmann, exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City, and MoMA Tokyo. He and brother Nicholas Krushenick opened an artists' cooperative called the Brata Gallery in the late 1950s...
, *Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement.Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957, at the age of 28...
, Don Kunz, June Lathrop, Aaron Levy, Len Meiselman, Alice Neel
Alice Neel
Alice Neel was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers...
, *Bart Perry, Jack Arnold Rabinowitz, Elaine Booth Selig, Gertrude Shibley, Sal Sirugo, Pat Sloane, Leon Polk Smith
Leon Polk Smith
Leon Polk Smith was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and his style has been associated with the Hard-edge school, of which he is considered one of the founders....
, Paul Waldman, Alida Walsh, Jo Warner * Samuel G. Weiner, *Florence Weinstein. (The Camino closed in November 1963. At that time 6 members, Alice Forman, Philip Held, Aaron Levy, Gertrude Shibley, Alida Walsh and Florence Weinstein, joined the Phoenix Gallery which had moved uptown to 939 Madison Avenue. The directors of the Camino Gallery were: Howard Rackliff, Bruno Palmer-Poroner, Bruce Glaser, David Feinstein, David Rosenberg, and Margot Sylvestre.
March Gallery
March Gallery, 1957-1960. 95 East 10th Street, March 1957-December 1960. (**Founder *Original Members). Lennart Anderson, *Rocco Armento, Anne Arnold, *Alice BaberAlice Baber
Alice Baber was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.Alice was born in Charleston, Illinois. She grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida, her family traveled south to Florida yearly because of Alice poor health. They settled in Illinois when World War...
, *Waldemar Baranowski, *Robert Beauchamp, *June Corwine, Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning was an Abstract Expressionist, Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era and editorial associate for Art News magazine...
, Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero
Marco Polo "Mark" di Suvero is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born Marco Polo Levi in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates. He immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1942 with his family. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the University of California, Berkeley to study...
, *Francine Fels (Felsenthal), *William Gambini, *Joann Gedney, Paul Georges
Paul Georges
Paul Georges was an American painter. He died at his home at Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, aged 77.He painted large-scale figurative allegories and satirical self-portraits....
, Burt Green, *Burt Hassen, Bob Hauge, *Budd Hopkins
Budd Hopkins
Budd Hopkins was an American painter, sculptor, and prominent figure in abduction phenomenon, and related UFO research.-Life:Born in 1931 and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia...
, * Richard Ireland, *Lester Johnson
Lester Johnson (artist)
Lester Johnson was an American artist.As a figurative expressionist and member of the Second Generation of the New York School, painter Lester Johnson remained dedicated to the human figure as means of expression through the many stylistic changes of his oeuvre.In New York, Johnson exhibited at...
, * Matsumi Kanemitsu, Gesha Kurakin, * David Lund, * Boris Lurie, *Marcia Marcus, Joan Mathews, Hugh Mezibov, *Steve Montgomery, **Felix Pasilis, *Patricia Passlof, Leo Rabkin, *Wallace Reiss, Marlene Schwanzel, Bill Seibring, *Ray Spillenger, *Peter Stander, Robert Tannen, Yvonne Thomas, Bob Tieman, Beate Wheeler, *Tom Young, Mario Yrissary, Anthe Zacharias, Athos Zacharias, * Wilfrid Zogbaum.
Brata Gallery
Brata Gallery, 1957-mid 60s. (**Founders *Members at 89 East 10th Street). *Takeshi Aseda, Dick Ahr, Rex Ashlock, Sal Barone, *Ronald Bladen, Ed Bleicher, *Edward ClarkEdward Clark (artist)
Edward Clark also known as Ed Clark is an African American abstract expressionist painter and one of the early experimenters with shaped canvas in the 1950s.Edward Clark stated:-Biography:...
, *Bill Creston, *Berenice D'Vorzon, John Dunlop, Peter Forakis
Peter Forakis
Peter Forakis was an American artist known as an abstract geometric sculptor. The son of a Greek immigrant, he grew up on the Wyoming prairie until the age of 10 when his family moved to Oakland, California. Eventually they settled in Modesto, California...
, *Joseph Feldman, Harold Goldstein, *Al Held
Al Held
Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings.-Background and education:...
, Roger Jorensen, *Robert Kobayashi, *Joseph Konzai, **John Krushenick
John Krushenick
John Krushenick painter and co-founder of the Brata Gallery in New York City. He studied with Hans Hofmann, exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City, and MoMA Tokyo. He and brother Nicholas Krushenick opened an artists' cooperative called the Brata Gallery in the late 1950s...
, **Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement.Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957, at the age of 28...
, *Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
is a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation...
, *Nanae Momiayama, Frank Montgomery, David Owens, *Jack Arnold Rabinowitz, *Salvatore M. Romano, David Seccombe, Frank Sepa, William P. Sildar, Hal Silvermintz, Patricia Stegman, *Knute Stiles, Sylvia Stone, *George Sugarman, *Julius Tobias, *Louis Trakis, Wilhelmina Van Ness, *Felix Welensky.
Phoenix Gallery
Phoenix Gallery, 1958–present. 210 Eleventh Avenue, 2003–present. 560 Broadway, 1977-2003. 30 West 57th Street, June 1977, 939 Madison Avenue, Jan. 1963-May 1977. 40 Third Avenue, Oct. 1958-Dec. 1962. (*Original Members, **Founder ***Phoenix Members since Tenth Street). Members at 40 3rd Avenue). **Isser Aronovici, Jean Auger, Frank Bernaducci, John Blake, Michael Boyd, Francis Celentano, John Civitello, Joe Clark, Sally Cook, *James Cuchiara, *Marsha Dale (Gurell), *Helen Daphnis-Avalon, Leon De Leeuw, *Michael Donohue, Annick du Charme, George Englehart, *Blossom Esainko, Marlyn Fein, ***Cecily Barth Firestein, John Fisher, *Irwin Feeminger, Ed Golik, *Karen Greenberg, *Red GroomsRed Grooms
Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life...
, Judith Hart, Pat Hartman, *John Hoffer, **Lenore Jaffee, *Edwin Jastram, Francis Jennings, *Ted Joans
Ted Joans
Theodore "Ted" Joans was an American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter.Joans was born in Cairo, Illinois, but not on a riverboat as had been claimed. He earned a degree in fine arts from Indiana University. He later associated with writers of the Beat Generation in Greenwich Village and San Francisco...
, *John Kazann, Robert Kohls, Miriam Laufer, Michael Leff, Ann Leiter-Larsen, Tom Lenihan, ***Eleanore Lockspeiser, Robert Ludwig, *James Martin, *Jay Milder
Jay Milder
Jay Milder is an American artist and a figurative expressionist painter from the second generation New York School.Old Testament themes such as Jacob's Ladder and Noah’s Ark, and the Jewish mystical beliefs of the Kabbalah, are recurring themes in Milder’s paintings which are presented as...
, Earle Miller, William Pellicone, George Preston, Gwytha Pring, Arnold Price, John Pupura, Ingrid Rehert, Marlyn Ries, *John Servetas, Herbert Simon, Helen Soreff, Natalie Sterinbach, Robert Wiegand, Gerald Willen, Ralph Wehrenberg, Peter Wrangel, Frank Yee, Zalmar.
Area Gallery
Area Gallery, 1958-1965. 80 East 10th Street, Fall 1958-Summer 1962. 90 East 10th Street, Fall 1962-Summer 1965. (*Original members). Members (at 80 East 10th Street).Harvey Becker, *Tom Boutis, Lydia Brown, Jean Cohen, *John Ireland Colins, *Charles DuBack, *Joe Fiore, Ruth Fortel, *Norman Kanter, Tom Kendall, *Bernard Langlais, Ellen Leelike, Emily Mason
Emily Mason
Emily Mason is an American abstract painter.Mason is known for her work in Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. She was born and raised in New York City, where she continues to reside....
, Ernest Marciano, Doris Matthews, *Ed Moses
Ed Moses (artist)
Ed Moses is an American artist based in the Los Angeles area.Born near Long Beach and educated in the mid-1950s at UCLA, Moses was one of the abstract artists with a one-man show at the legendary Los Angeles Ferus Gallery , in the cadre of fellow artists Wallace Berman, Billy Al Bengston, Robert...
, *Daphne Mumford, Gordon Press, Philip Russell, Selina Trieff, Nadine Valenti, Conni Whidden Marjorie Windust, *Paul Yakovenko.
See also
- Artist cooperativeArtist cooperativeAn artist cooperative is an autonomous visual arts organization, enterprise, or association jointly-owned and democratically-controlled by its members. Artist cooperatives are legal entities organized as non-capital stock corporations, non-profit organizations, or unincorporated associations...
- Artist-run initiativeArtist-run initiativeAn artist-run initiative is any project run by visual artists to present their and others' projects. They might approximate a traditional art gallery space in appearance or function, or they may take a markedly different approach, limited only by the artist's understanding of the term...
- Artist-run spaceArtist-run spaceAn artist-run space is a gallery space run by artists, thus circumventing the structures of public and private galleries.Artist-run spaces have become realised as an important factor in urban regeneration...
- Abstract expressionismAbstract expressionismAbstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
- Park Place GalleryPark Place GalleryPark Place Gallery was a contemporary art gallery located in SoHo in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA, during the mid to late 1960s. Park Place Gallery was located at 542 West Broadway, on what is now LaGuardia Place just north of Houston Street in the neighborhood that is now called "SoHo"...
Sources
- Tenth Street Days The Co-ops of the 50s, copyright 1977 by Joellen Bard, Library of Congress card Number 77-927-98
- Fred W. McDarrahFred W. McDarrahFrederick William "Fred" McDarrah was an American staff photographer for the Village Voice. He became famous for documenting the cultural phenomenon known as the Beat Generation from its inception in the 1950s. In his book The Artist's World in Pictures, co-authored with Thomas B...
; Gloria S McDarrah, The artist's world in pictures. (New York, Dutton, 1961.)
External links
- http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/bardjoel.htm information about Tenth Street Galleries
- http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/krushe68.htm Transcripts/10th Street Galleries
- Tenth Street Galleries.org