600 Washington Square South
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Appointment Recommended
215 629 1000
For over five decades, Locks Gallery has represented a roster of historically significant artists, with a strong focus on women. Direct collaboration with the artist or estate is central to our program. With a sustained commitment to contextualizing the work exhibited, Locks Gallery regularly publishes catalogs and hosts public programs with curators, critics and art historians, and cultivates long-standing relationships with museums. Emphasizing a museum-quality setting and artistic excellence, Locks Gallery is a longtime member of the Art Dealers Association of America and adheres to the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship, and curatorial practice.
Artists Represented:Edna Andrade
Jennifer Bartlett
Lynda Benglis
Kate Bright
Louise Fishman
Neysa Grassi
Ellen Harvey
Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib
Jane Irish
Virgil Marti
Sarah McCoubrey
Sarah McEneaney
John Moore
Tim Portlock
Joanna Pousette-Dart
Warren Rohrer
David Row
Pat Steir
Rob Wynne
Works Available By:Ann Agee
Polly Apfelbaum
Richard Artschwager
Louise Belcourt
Nancy Graves
Willem de Kooning
Howard Hodgkin
Jun Kaneko
Roy Lichtenstein
Robert Motherwell
Alice Neel
Louise Nevelson
Robert Rauschenberg
George Segal
Frank Stella
Lee Ufan
Yeesookyung
Jennifer Bartlett, "In the Garden," Locks Gallery, 2014
Gallery Facade, 600 Washington Square South, Philadelphia
Past Exhibitions
Mary Corse
April 3, 2025 - May 17, 2025
Locks Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition with California-based artist Mary Corse (b. 1945). This presentation will feature a selection of recent ethereal White Light paintings, a body of work she has been making since 1968. Her ongoing and evolving White Light paintings challenge world views based on external fixity and objectivity, honoring the power of subjective individual experiences, embodied perception, and change.
John Moore
Charcoals
February 14, 2025 - March 28, 2025
Locks Gallery is pleased to present John Moore: Charcoals, a solo exhibition of recent works on paper by American realist John Moore (b. 1941). Widely recognized for his ability to poetically blend realism and illusionism, this series continues Moore’s career-long investigation of architectural and industrial landscapes and their connection to memory and time.
John Moore
John Moore: Early Paintings, 1968–1989
January 3, 2025 - January 31, 2025
Locks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of early paintings by the American realist painter John Moore (b. 1941). These still lifes and architectural landscape paintings span from the late 1960s to late 1980s.
Jennifer Bartlett, Jane Irish, Alex Katz, Markus Lüpertz, Susan Rothenberg
Et in Arcadia Ego
November 7, 2024 - December 20, 2024
Et in Arcadia Ego features a selection of paintings by Jennifer Bartlett (1941-2022), Jane Irish (b. 1955), Alex Katz (b. 1927), Markus Lüpertz (b. 1941), and Susan Rothenberg (1945-2020). This exhibition title, "Even in Arcadia, there am I" in Latin, evokes themes of natural beauty and mortality, and this show centers Jennifer Bartlett's renowned 1990 series "The Four Seasons."
Warren Rohrer
Return to Land
October 4, 2024 - November 30, 2024
"Warren Rohrer: Return to Land" revisits the artist’s relationship to his rural Pennsylvania upbringing and his evolution as a painter from landscapes to abstraction.
Hanne Friis, Lynda Benglis
Hanne Friis / Lynda Benglis
September 13, 2024 - October 31, 2024
Locks Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of sculptures by Norwegian textile artist Hanne Friis (b. 1972) and renowned sculptor Lynda Benglis (b. 1941). "Hanne Friis / Lynda Benglis" presents a dialogue between two generations of artists driven by material exploration who share a desire to merge process and form. This is Friis’ first exhibition in the U.S. and is accompanied by a 112-page catalog with an essay by art historian and critic Amanda Gluibizzi.
Louise Nevelson
House of Nevelson
May 3, 2024 - June 14, 2024
Locks Gallery presents 'House of Nevelson,' an exhibition of sculptures and collages by renowned artist Louise Nevelson (1899–1988). The exhibition echos Nevelson’s processes of assemblage as an endless search for home. “My whole life is one big collage," she famously said; "the way I think is collage.”
Dona Nelson
Dona Nelson: Selected Paintings, 2019 – 2023
April 5, 2024 - May 17, 2024
Locks Gallery is pleased to share "Selected Paintings, 2019 – 2023" by Dona Nelson (b. 1947). Recognized as one of the most innovative painters since the 1970s, this marks Nelson's first exhibition with the gallery. Featuring recent single and double-sided paintings, Nelson’s powerful abstract creations are a testament to their unwavering commitment to material invention and artistic exploration of color and texture. The resulting compositions challenge the traditional boundaries of painting, inviting contemplation and discovery.
Sarah McEneaney
Morning Noon Night
March 15, 2024 - April 26, 2024
Locks Gallery is pleased to present Morning Noon Night, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Philadelphia-based artist Sarah McEneaney. Since the 1970s, McEneaney has composed diaristic paintings depicting many areas of life with an unmatched intimacy and reverent vulnerability.
Edna Andrade
Space Dreams
February 2, 2024 - March 9, 2024
Locks Gallery presents 'Space Dreams' by Edna Andrade (1917–2008), including a selection of prints and drawings from the 1950s through 1990s. Intimate studies connect color and pattern to a modernist love for the grid in Andrade's work.