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22 East 80th Street
New York, NY 10075
212 570 4190
Barbara Mathes Gallery was founded in 1978 and specializes in paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by modern and contemporary masters. The gallery is known for its tightly focused one-person shows and for imaginative thematic exhibitions that present major modern and contemporary artists in new and illuminating contexts. The gallery is also dedicated to exhibiting the work of overlooked major masters in art historical contexts.
Works Available By:
Carla Accardi
Josef Albers
Carl Andre
Richard Artschwager
Milton Avery
John Baldessari
Giacomo Balla
Hannelore Baron
Tony Berlant
Oscar Bluemner
Agostino Bonalumi
Lee Bontecou
Louise Bourgeois
Alexander Calder
Pier Paolo Calzolari
Pizzi Cannella
Enrico Castellani
Vija Celmins
John Chamberlain
Bruce Conner
Joseph Cornell
Allan D'Arcangelo
Dadamaino
Stuart Davis
Willem de Kooning
Jan Dibbets
Richard Diebenkorn
Arthur Dove
Jean Dubuffet
Patrick Faigenbaum
Lucio Fontana
Sam Francis
Anthony Fry
Alberto Giacometti
Joe Goode
Arshile Gorky
Adolph Gottlieb
Mark Grotjahn
Philip Guston
Marsden Hartley
Eva Hesse
Bernhard Hildebrandt
Damien Hirst
David Hockney
Neil Jenney
Donald Judd
Alex Katz
Ellsworth Kelly
Anselm Kiefer
Karen Kilimnik
Franz Kline
Karin Kneffel
Jeff Koons
Yayoi Kusama
Tadaaki Kuwayama
Fernand Léger
Sol LeWitt
Roy Lichtenstein
Robert Mangold
Brice Marden
John Marin
Agnes Martin
Henri Matisse
Fausto Melotti
Joan Mitchell
Piet Mondrian
Giorgio Morandi
Robert Moskowitz
Claes Oldenburg
Pablo Picasso
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Sigmar Polke
Robert Rauschenberg
Ad Reinhardt
Edda Renouf
Gerhard Richter
Bridget Riley
Ed Ruscha
Robert Ryman
Richard Serra
Serse
David Smith
Frank Stella
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Cy Twombly
Andy Warhol
Tom Wesselmann

 

 
The Art Show 2019


 
Current Exhibition

Karen Wilberding Diefenbach

Karen Wilberding Diefenbach: Pastorale



April 27, 2023 - June 29, 2023
Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to present Pastorale, an exhibition of new paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by Karen Wilberding Diefenbach. Inspired by the landscape of Tuscany, Diefenbach’s work is known for its evocation of tradition and its exploration of our complex interaction with the natural world.

 
Past Exhibitions

Edda Renouf

Edda Renouf: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from 1976 - 2019



January 10, 2023 - March 3, 2023
Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce Edda Renouf: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from 1976 – 2019, a comprehensive exhibition spanning more than forty years of the artist’s career. Presenting a wide range of Renouf’s work, this exhibition will explore her commitment to meditative, lyrical abstraction and the experiments with process and material for which she is known.

Ed Clark, Thomas Downing, Sam Francis, Sam Gilliam, Charles Hinman and Kenneth Noland

Color Field Painting 60 Years: 1958-2018



April 26, 2022 - July 1, 2022
Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to present Color Field Painting 60 Years: 1958-2018. Featuring works by Ed Clark, Thomas Downing, Sam Francis, Sam Gilliam, Charles Hinman and Kenneth Noland, the exhibition explores the history of the Color Field movement and its legacy in the 21st Century.

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock: The Experimental Works on Paper



April 29, 2021 - August 13, 2021
Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce Jackson Pollock: The Experimental Works on Paper, an exhibition of Pollock’s little-known engravings and silkscreens. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) experimented with a variety of different media throughout his career and his works on paper frame the development of his style, illuminate the shifts in his work of the early 1950s, and attest to his range as an artist.