12 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York This Fall

The summer is over and the fall art season has officially kicked off in New York City. The cultural calendar is chock-full of art fairs, museum shows, and of course gallery exhibitions. There’s something for everyone, from art historical rediscoveries to emerging talents, plus performances and works on offer in every conceivable medium. Read on for our picks of shows to see this week.

 

 

The latest forgotten woman of Abstract Expressionism ripe for renewed attention is the late Mercedes Matter, who is getting her first solo show at Berry Campbell. (The gallery has previously helped revive the reputations of female Postwar artists such as Lynne Drexler.) One of the first abstract painters in the U.S., Matter was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936 and became a key figure of the Ab-Ex movement. And in addition to her studio practice, Matter, who studied under Hans Hofmann, was an important arts educator, founding the New York Studio School in 1964. The exhibition offers an overview of her unjustly overlooked career, from early figure drawings to mature, large-scale canvases that meld abstraction and figuration with bold and colorful brushstrokes, as well as some of Matter’s late charcoal drawings.

 

Berry Campbell is located at 524 West 26th Street, New York, New York.

 

—Sarah Cascone, Artnet

 

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