At Berry Campbell, "Louisa Chase: The Eighties" marks the artist's largest and most comprehensive solo in New York in more than two decades.
American artist Louisa Chase (1951–2016) and her work are situated in one of the most intriguing and pioneering junctures of 20th-century art making. Following the gestural, total abstraction of the AbEx of the 1950s and the height of Pop art and Minimalism in the 1960s, Chase developed her own visual language in the 1970s informed by the generations of artists before her but creating something wholly new. By the 1980s, she had solidified a practice that was as formally rigorous as it was playfully disarming, positioning her between Neo-Expressionism and the New Image movement that incorporated elements of both abstraction and representation.
May 2, 2026
