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GALLERY NEWS | Roger Brown: Weathervane
GALLERY NEWS | Roger Brown: Weathervane
NEWS | CBS News: Theaster Gates on the artist's ties to hometown Chicago
NEWS | CBS News: Theaster Gates on the artist's ties to hometown Chicago
Working out of an old airplane parts factory, the internationally-acclaimed artist Theaster Gates has refused to fit inside a box – from creating works out of discarded objects, to making paintings out of tar. He talks with Mark Whitaker about his role as an artist; his stewardship of neglected buildings in his Chicago neighborhood; and his work commissioned for the forthcoming Obama Presidential Library.
NEWS | Obama Presidential Center Announces Artist Theaster Gates will create a monumental ode to Black beauty next year
NEWS | Obama Presidential Center Announces Artist Theaster Gates will create a monumental ode to Black beauty next year
The Chicago-based artist will draw from two vast photographic archives — including vintage images from Ebony and Jet — in his commission for the center, which will open late next spring.
PRESS | Forbes: Theaster Gates And Chicago: City Of Dreams
PRESS | Forbes: Theaster Gates And Chicago: City Of Dreams
Theaster Gates’ latest demonstration of an artist’s potential for civic planning comes at GRAY Chicago during the exhibition “Oh, You’ve Got to Come Back to the City."
WATCH | Judy Ledgerwood: Twilight in the Wilderness
WATCH | Judy Ledgerwood: Twilight in the Wilderness
PRESS | Hyperallergic: Judy Ledgerwood, A Funkier, Feminist Form of Pattern and Decoration
PRESS | Hyperallergic: Judy Ledgerwood, A Funkier, Feminist Form of Pattern and Decoration
Judy Ledgerwood turns the decorous decorum of Pattern & Decoration into something fanciful, forthright, and frankly vulgar.
NEWS | Judy Ledgerwood: Flowers for the Blue Line Racine Station
NEWS | Judy Ledgerwood: Flowers for the Blue Line Racine Station
WATCH | In the Studio with Candida Alvarez
WATCH | In the Studio with Candida Alvarez
NEWS | Candida Alvarez Joins GRAY
NEWS | Candida Alvarez Joins GRAY
UPCOMING | Theaster Gates: OH, YOU'VE GOT TO COME BACK TO THE CITY
UPCOMING | Theaster Gates: OH, YOU'VE GOT TO COME BACK TO THE CITY
ON VIEW | Judy Ledgerwood: Twilight in the Wilderness at GRAY New York
ON VIEW | Judy Ledgerwood: Twilight in the Wilderness at GRAY New York
PRESS | Bridge Journal: Alex Katz's White Lotus - Review
PRESS | Bridge Journal: Alex Katz's White Lotus - Review
Upon entering Gray Gallery to view Alex Katz’s exhibit, White Lotus , my gaze is parted by a blue sea of large horizontal paintings and two sections of folding chairs, set up church-like, that merge into a small distant painting hung in an alcove due north of the entrance. This double framed painti
EVENT | Closing Reception for Alex Katz: White Lotus
EVENT | Closing Reception for Alex Katz: White Lotus
July 11–September 20, 2025
LISTEN | Spotify Playlist: Alex Katz's Studio Frequencies, by Cultured Magazine
LISTEN | Spotify Playlist: Alex Katz's Studio Frequencies, by Cultured Magazine
Playlist · CULTURED Magazine · 9 items · 54 saves
PRESS | Cultured Magazine: Seven Decades Into His Practice, This Is What Alex Katz Thinks He Has Over Pollock and de Kooning
PRESS | Cultured Magazine: Seven Decades Into His Practice, This Is What Alex Katz Thinks He Has Over Pollock and de Kooning
With a suite of shows on view this fall, the painter is proving that 98 is as good a time as any to be prolific.
NEWS | Valerie Carberry Appointed President and CEO of GRAY Chicago and New York
NEWS | Valerie Carberry Appointed President and CEO of GRAY Chicago and New York
PRESS | The Brooklyn Rail: Real Monsters in Bold Colors
PRESS | The Brooklyn Rail: Real Monsters in Bold Colors
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” Toni Morrison’s words from her renowned novel Beloved resonate throughout Real Monsters in Bold Colors, an exhibition that brings together figurative painter Bob Thompson’s kaleidoscopic reinterpretations of art history with Candida Alvarez’s vibrant abstractions, the latter born from personal memory.
PREVIEW | GRAY at Art Basel (Booth F7)
PREVIEW | GRAY at Art Basel (Booth F7)
PRESS | The New York Times: Candida Alvarez’s Full Life in Living Color
PRESS | The New York Times: Candida Alvarez’s Full Life in Living Color
After mentoring a generation of artists, the seasoned “Diasporican” painter has a career in bloom, with a solo show and a bold dialogue with Bob Thompson.
ON VIEW | Real Monsters in Bold Colors: Bob Thompson and Candida Alvarez
ON VIEW | Real Monsters in Bold Colors: Bob Thompson and Candida Alvarez
ON VIEW | Apparitions at GRAY Chicago
ON VIEW | Apparitions at GRAY Chicago
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