Richard Levy Gallery, established in 1991 in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, [1] specializes in contemporary art. The gallery program includes work by John Baldessari, [2] Thomas Barrow, [3] Wilson Bentley, William Betts, [4] Debra Bloomfield, [5] Xuan Chen, [6] John Chervinsky, [7] Constance DeJong, [8] Richard Estes, [9] Alex Katz, [10] Jeff Kellar, [11] Jay Kelly, [12] Jenna Kuiper, [13] Isa Leshko, [14] Matt Magee, [15] Rania Matar, [16] Matthew McConville, [17] Emi Ozawa, [18] Gordon Parks, [19] Antoine Predock, [20] Willy Bo Richardson, [21] Ed Ruscha, [22] Manjari Sharma, [23] Eric Tillinghast, [24] Mary Tsiongas, [25] James Turrell, [26] Tom Waldron, [27] and Pablo Zuleta Zahr. [28] The gallery has participated in special global initiatives like 2015 On the Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art + Design, [29] ISEA 2012: Machine Wilderness and 2009's LAND/ART New Mexico. [30]
In the 1970s Richard Levy moved to Albuquerque to study the history of photography with Beaumont Newhall at the University of New Mexico. In 1991 Richard Levy Gallery opened as a print gallery by appointment only and began publishing waterless lithographs with Jeffrey Ryan under the name 21 Steps Editions. [31] Together they published works by James Casebere, Adam Henry, David Levinthal, Robert ParkeHarrison, Lorna Simpson, [32] and Richard Tuttle.
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