Armory Show VIP Day Kicks Off the Fall Season with Sales of Works by Walton Ford, Lynne Drexler, and More

Daniel Cassady
ARTnews
6 September, 2024

The Chelsea-based gallery Berry Campbell sold a never-before-seen painting by Lynne Drexler, Autumn Twilight (1977) for $450,000. Despite her being generally lesser-known, Drexler’s market has reached record highs in the past two years, with one of her paintings even selling for $1.38 million at auction last year. It seems as though there’s still a lot of interest in her art. Berry Campbell, which specializes in art by female painters of the postwar era, also sold Yvonne Thomas’s Blue Green (1964) for $125,000 and Nanette Carter’s Cantilevered #14 (2014) for $22,000.

What Was Selling at the Armory Show’s 2024 VIP Preview?

After a quiet summer, there are signs the market is coming back to life.

Eileen Kinsella
Artnet
September 5, 2024

Berry Campbell, which has carved out a dynamic niche focusing on postwar American painters—especially formerly under-appreciated Abstract Expressionist women painters—reported several solid sales. These included a newly released, never-before-seen painting from the archive of Lynne Drexler, Autumn Twilight (1977), sold for $450,000 to a private collection. And a painting by Yvonne Thomas, Blue Green (1964), sold for $125,000, while an oil on mylar by Nanette Carter, titled Cantilevered #14, (2014), was reportedly whisked away for $22,000.

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BERRY CAMPBELL TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ARMORY SHOW 2024 

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 13, 2024–Berry Campbell is pleased to announce its participation in The Armory Show 2024. Located at booth 119 at the Javits Center, Berry Campbell Gallery will present a modern take on Women Choose Women (1973), the first large-scale museum exhibition devoted solely to women artists and curated by a committee of women artists at the New York Cultural Center, for The Armory Show 2024.

Inside, an art collection curated in partnership with Berry Campbell Gallery showcases works by Ethel Schwabacher, Yvonne Thomas, and Dan Christensen, all available for purchase. The pieces are complemented by a striking installation crafted from repurposed Lucifer lighting components. This sculptural work, visible from the street, transforms from a sphere into an array of suspended, illuminated elements as one moves closer. The ground floor also features a selection of artworks—curated by Lucifer Lighting director and former gallerist Suzanne Mathews—from the family’s collection, including pieces by Francisco Toledo and Jim Sullivan.

New abstraction or old genre 

by Dana Gordon 
August 8, 2024

The New York art exhibitions to see in August

Read our pick of the best New York art exhibitions to see in August, from Voyage à Paris at Findlay Galleries to Paul McCartney's 'Eyes of the Storm' at the Brooklyn Museum

The Imaginary Made Real

Berry Campbell Gallery until 16 August 2024

Featuring 31 individual artists, The Imaginary Made Real, curated by New York-based artist and writer Paul Laster, is a celebration of the centennial of Surrealism. Through sculpture, ceramics, painting, drawing, mosaics and more, the exhibition explores ways of thinking and creating something abstract which embraces spiritual and psychological viewpoints. With pieces displayed at different scales you journey through a dreamlike landscape which can be seen from inside and outside the gallery. berrycampbell.com

Writer Tianna Williams

NC painter Beverly McIver wants to make art that makes a difference

By Vivienne Serret

When you walk into Beverly McIver’s art studio in Chapel Hill, the smell of oil paint fills the room and the eyes of her portraits follow your every move.

Her studio is a sacred space. Sometimes she finds herself painting till the early-morning hours. Other times she enters when her emotions overwhelm her and she needs to unwind. On a corner lies a bed; behind it, paintings inspired by McIver’s own struggles. In one self portrait her hair wraps around her eyes, her hands covering her face.

On her palette, you may find a cherry pit in paint, what’s left of a favorite snack to fuel on when she’s focused on her work.

To McIver, a 61-year-old Greensboro native and art professor at Duke University, art is a way to reach out and educate younger generations on the political state of the world. Her work has been featured in over 40 exhibitions and is in over 10 collections, including the N.C. Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

“All the rights that my generation and my mother’s generation fought for are slowly being taken away from women by men,” McIver said.