Brooke Alexander Gallery

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The Brooke Alexander Gallery is an art gallery in New York City founded in 1968 by Brooke and Carolyn Alexander in a storefront on East 68th Street. It is a member of The Art Dealers Association of America and the International Fine Print Dealers Association. [1]

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History

Brooke Alexander Gallery began by publishing artists' prints and multiples in the fall of 1968. [2] Since then, Brooke Alexander Gallery has published over 1,500 editions. [3] The Alexanders moved the gallery twice in the next few years and in 1972 opened at 26 East 78th Street. The gallery located to 57th Street in 1975 and regularly exhibited both paintings and prints. [4] In 1985 it moved to 59 Wooster Street, in the downtown area of New York City, into an art neighborhood that had been named SoHo and included 83 other art galleries. [5] The art dealer David Zwirner got his start in the art business there. [6]

The Alexanders separated in the early 1990s, and Mr. Brooke Alexander, whose brother was the artist Peter Alexander [7] became the sole owner/director of the gallery. In 1995, Carolyn Alexander joined with prior Brooke Alexander Gallery director, Ted Bonin, to create the Alexander and Bonin Gallery. In 1997, Alexander and Bonin moved to a three-story building in Chelsea, and in 2016 moved to 47 Walker Street in Tribeca.

Notice and influence

The Brooke Alexander Gallery has been noted for its influence on the late-20th century art scene in New York. [8] Recognizing this, in 1994, 25 years of work at the Brooke Alexander Gallery was honored at the Smithsonian Institution. [9] Wendy Weitman, from the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art has said that "Brooke Alexander began publishing prints and multiples in the fall of 1968. [...[ Surveying his publications thus offers a particularly dynamic view of American printmaking of the last quarter century". [9]

Artists

Besides for the publication of Minimalist art prints, the gallery is known for the Colab artists (and friends) it represented in the 1980s and whose careers it helped launch, [10] [11] including:

In addition to these artists, Brooke Alexander Gallery also publishes and handles work by:

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References

  1. Brooke Alexander, Inc. listing at The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) a nonprofit membership organization of the nation's leading galleries in the fine arts
  2. "Brooke Alexander, Inc". Artnet . Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  3. "Modern Galleries Drawn to Soho" by Douglas C. McGill The New York Times September 17, 1985
  4. Grace Glueck (September 24, 1982). "ART: AFTER 2 YEARS, 'SELECTED PRINTS III'". The New York Times . Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  5. "Inside Art" by Carol Vogel September 10, 1993 The New York Times
  6. Lubow, Arthur (January 7, 2018). "The Business of Being David Zwirner". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved August 14, 2018.
  7. "Peter Alexander, who created ethereal worlds out of resin, dies at 81". Los Angeles Times . May 28, 2020. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  8. Brooke Alexander Archive Cards at 98 Bowery
  9. 1 2 For 25 years: Brooke Alexander editions: the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tatyana Grosman Gallery, January 27-May 17, 1994 at the Smithsonian Libraries
  10. "Colab Redux installation". Archived from the original on June 22, 2013. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
  11. Colab Redux PR