Sperone Westwater

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Sperone Westwater
Established1975
Type contemporary art gallery
Location
    • 257 Bowery
    • New York, NY 10002
Coordinates 40°43′24″N73°59′34″W / 40.7232°N 73.9927°W / 40.7232; -73.9927
Website speronewestwater.com

Sperone Westwater is a contemporary art gallery in the Bowery, in Manhattan, in New York City. The partners are Angela Westwater and Gian Enzo Sperone. [1] The gallery was started on Greene Street in Soho in 1975; [2] the first show was of work by Carl Andre. [3] Since 2010 it has occupied a building on Bowery purpose-built to designs by Foster + Partners. [3]

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Sperone Westwater Gallery

In 2008 the gallery inaugurated a second venue at Chasa dal Guvernatur in Sent, Switzerland, with an exhibition of Bruce Nauman.

Artists

Sperone Westwater represents many contemporary artists, including:

Sperone Westwater has in the past represented Julian Schnabel [5]

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References

  1. "Angela Westwater | Apollo 40 Under 40 USA | The Judges". Apollo Magazine. September 1, 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
  2. 1 2 Alex Williams (December 1, 2010), The UnMuseum New York Times .
  3. 1 2 Heidi Druckemiller (2012). Sperone Westwater Gallery/Foster + Partners. In: Carlo Aiello (2012). Re-imagining the Contemporary Museum: Cultural Architecture Ahead of Our Time. Evolo Press. ISBN   9781938740169, pages 152–155.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Paul Laster (August 25, 2010), Red-Hot Steel? Sperone Westwater Gallery Scrapes the Bowery Sky New York Observer .
  5. 1 2 3 Numbers: Which New York Gallery Represents the Most Warhol-ian Artists? New York Observer , September 7, 2012.