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Ethel Schwabacher, Woman: Red Sea, Dead Sea, 1951, oil on canvas, 31x37 in

Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction, 1940 - 1970
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
December 2, 2023 - March 3, 2024

Kunsthalle Bielefeld presents an extensive global show that for the first time in Europe focuses on the work of female artists and their role in the development of abstraction after 1945. The movement we now describe as “Abstract Expressionism” officially began in the mid-20th century in the United States. But around the world, artists* explored parallel approaches to abstraction through materiality, expressivity, and gesture, from Informel to Arte Povera, from calligraphic abstraction and Gutai in East Asia to experimental, deeply political practices in Central and South America, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Frederick J. Brown, Portrait of Etta James, American Jazz Museum

OPENING OCTOBER 26, 2023: Energy is Jazz, an exhibition of works by American artist, Frederick J. Brown

The American Jazz Museum presents Energy is Jazz, an exhibition of works by esteemed American artist, Frederick J. Brown. The exhibition has been co-curated between The American Jazz Museum and Bentley Brown of the Frederick J. Brown Trust. The exhibit will explore Brown's career and his depiction of jazz artists in portraiture, in addition to the energy and feeling of jazz through visual representation.

Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College

January 29 - March 8, 2024
Reception: February 15, 5-7 p.m.

“Portraits” is a captivating gallery exhibit showcasing paintings, photographs, drawings and prints by renowned artists such as Louis Carlos Bernal, Beverly McIver, Alejandro Macias, Papay Solomon, Gerard Beringer, Vincent Desiderio, Craig Cully and more. The diverse collection explores themes of identity, culture and the human condition. Bernal’s photographs capture the familial ties of Chicano life, while McIver examines issues of race and gender. Macias combines the Latino culture and identity through his use of self-portraits with Mexican and Western influences, Solomon’s hyperrealist portraits celebrate the African diaspora, and Cully’s realist paintings delve into the complexities of identity. “Portraits” invites viewers to experience the power of portraiture in connecting and inspiring. 

Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023 at 6:00pm 

Hosted by the Art Students League of New York

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Fl 215 W 57th Street, New York

This panel discussion will bring together artists who have both studio and pedagogical practices to discuss abstraction and its teaching today. Participants include League instructors Jill Nathanson and James Little, as well as Carl E. Hazlewood, Harriet Korman, and John Mendelsohn. Moderated by Mario Naves.

Event tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/painters-talking-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-abstraction-tickets-754042339937?aff=oddtdtcreator 

Beverly McIver, Norman Lear, 2022, oil on canvas, 30x30 in. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Beverly McIver, an artist and professor of art history and visual studies at Duke University, remembers watching Lear’s shows every week as a child. Growing up in a housing project in Greensboro, N.C., she identified with J.J. Evans, the teenage aspiring artist who grows up in Chicago public housing, portrayed by Jimmie Walker on “Good Times.”

“These shows gave me hope that I could rise out of the project, not continue the cycle of poverty, and that I could be an artist,” she said.

Tim Jaeger, director and chief curator of galleries and exhibitions at Ringling College of Art & Design, poses next to Syd Solomon's 1982 triptych Trishades in the Lois and David Stulberg Gallery.

"Fluid Impressions: The Paintings of Syd Solomon" Opening Reception Friday, Nov. 10, 5-8 p.m. Exhibit runs through March 25, 2024. Stulberg Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, 1188 Dr. Martin Luther King Way. Visit RinglingCollege.Gallery.

"Charlotte Park: Gathering," a focused exhibition of paintings by the Abstract Expressionist artist, is at the Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea through Dec. 22.