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New York, NY 10001
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Hollis Taggart was founded in 1979, with a mission to present museum-quality works of art, maintain a program motivated by scholarship, and offer personalized support in all aspects of art collecting. For over 40 years, the gallery has offered significant works of American art, showcasing its trajectory from the Hudson River School to the American Modernism and Post-War and Contemporary movements through countless critically acclaimed shows developed in collaboration with the foremost leaders in the field. Hollis Taggart has also worked with more than thirty museums and institutions to produce scholarly catalogues.
Artists Represented:
Thomas Agrinier
Pablo Atchugarry
Dusti Bongé
Charles Cajori
Norman Carton
Audrey Flack
Hollis Heichemer
André Hemer
Francis Hines
Edward Holland
Dorothy Hood
Sheila Isham
Ralph Iwamoto
Dana James
Alex Kanevsky
Tim Kent
John Knuth
Osamu Kobayashi
Albert Kotin
Chloë Lamb
Hayoon Jay Lee
Ruth Lewin
Rachel MacFarlane
Knox Martin
Justine Otto
Bill Scott
Charles Seliger
Rafael Soriano
Brett Taylor
Alexandros Vasmoulakis
Michael (Corinne) West
Works Available By:
Josef Albers

Karel Appel

Milton Avery

Will Barnet

William Baziotes

Romare Bearden

Leon Berkowitz
Harry Bertoia

Oscar Bluemner

Norman Bluhm

James Brooks

William Buchina

Alexander Calder
Nicolas Carone
Giorgio Cavallon
John Chamberlain

Elizabeth Cooper

Joseph Cornell
Allan D'Arcangelo
Gene Davis
Elaine de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Richard Diebenkorn
Arthur G. Dove
Friedel Dzubas
Sam Francis
Helen Frankenthaler
Marla Friedman
Sam Gilliam
Michael Goldberg
Arshile Gorky
Adolph Gottlieb
John D. Graham
Leah Guadagnoli

Grace Hartigan

Hans Hofmann
Kenichi Hoshine
Paul Jenkins
Alfred Jensen
Franz Kline
Lee Krasner
Hiroya Kurata
Yayoi Kusama
Sol LeWitt
Roy Lichtenstein
Sven Lukin                       
Kathryn MacNaughton
Man Ray
Conrad Marca Relli
Suchitra Mattai
Alfred H. Maurer
Joan Mitchell
Fred Mitchell
Robert Motherwell
Louise Nevelson
Kenneth Noland
Kenzo Okada
Betty Parsons
Richard Pettibone
Larry Poons
Richard Pousette Dart
Milton Resnick
Larry Rivers
Mark Rothko
Kay Sage
William Scharf
David Smith
Vivian Springford
Theodoros Stamos
Frank Stella
Irene Monat Stern
Marjorie Strider
Devin Troy Strother
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Yvonne Thomas
Bob Thompson
Mark Tobey
Jack Tworkov
Esteban Vicente
George Vranesh
Andy Warhol
Idelle Weber
Tom Wesselmann
         

 

 
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Upcoming Exhibition

Charles S. Bell, Leon Berkowitz, Charles Cajori, John Chamberlain, Damu, Sam Gilliam, Keith Haring, Dorothy Hood, Paul Jenkins, Allan McCollum, Jules Olitski, Rick Prol, Ed Ruscha, Sean Scully, George Segal, Charles Seliger, Kendall Shaw, Theodoros Stamos, Sturtevant, George Vranesh, Michael (Corinne) West, Teruko Yokoi

The Making of a New World: Art of the 1980s



July 31, 2025 - August 29, 2025
Hollis Taggart is pleased to present The Making of a New World: Art of the 1980s, an exhibition that foregrounds the 1980s, a vital decade that set into motion the contemporary art world that exists today, with its explosive pluralism and configuration of artists, institutions, dealers, and collectors. In New York during the 1980s, artists produced work from the front lines of a complex sociopolitical landscape marked by urban gentrification, an unprecedented boom and bust of Wall Street following de-industrialization, the AIDS epidemic, culture wars, and the Reagan presidency. The exhibition will be on view at Hollis Taggart from July 31 to August 29. In the midst of a media-saturated, postmodern environment, artists active in the 1980s was the first generation that came of age watching television. As curator Douglas Eklund noted in his landmark exhibition of the so-called Pictures Generation of the early 1980s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the media culture of movies, television, and popular music constituted “a sort of fifth element or a prevailing kind of weather” for artists creating art in the 1980s. The exhibition includes work by a wide array of artists for whom this was the backdrop: Allan McCollum and Sturtevant, for example, problematize issues of authorship in artworks at a time when a pervasive media culture seemed to render the concept of originality irrelevant. Other artists such as Keith Haring and Rick Prol showed their work in the thriving East Village scene in the early 1980s, producing graffiti that blended pop art as well as anarchical, cartoonish tableaux that reflected downtown New York’s vibrant street culture. Ed Ruscha continued his exploration of photo-based conceptualism into the 1980s, while the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) movement, led by artists like Kendall Shaw, revived interest in patterning and ornamentation. In a decade marked by a great deal of critical dialogue centered around a duality of “good” postmodern art (conceptually oriented photography championed by the October school of critics) and “regressive” postmodern art (painters who still held onto the myth of the singular, heroic artist), sculptors were quietly continuing to create objects that seemingly bypassed such dialogues: George Segal’s elegiac bodily fragments and Sam Gilliam’s tessellated canvas sculptures. Still others––Paul Jenkins, Leon Berkowitz, and Michael (Corinne) West––were attempting to find new inroads in painting at a time when painting was being abandoned in favor of more conceptual forms of artmaking. Far from dead, and perhaps in reaction against the ever-increasingly mediated world of television and screens of the 1980s, painting came to represent an important intersection between new realities of seeing and a seemingly traditional way of creating art.