Structure and Imagery

  Kali Poem #52 (Vanishing Time ||), 1987-89 Ann Purcell: Kali Poem Series October 15 - November 14, 2020 view exhibition  | view catalog For pricing information email: info@berrycampbell.com Berry Campbell 530 W 24th Street New York, NY 10011 Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm COVID-19 precautions will be observed. Kali Poem #24, 1986 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BERRY CAMPBELL GALLERY PRESENTS ANN PURCELL: KALI POEM SERIES   NEW YORK, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 –  Berry Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce an important exhibition curated from Ann Purcell’s “Kali Poem” series.  For Purcell, the desire to achieve more spontaneity led to this series, which she started in 1983 and is ongoing.  She notes: “For the first time in my work, it was not out of joy, but from some other place, some other sphere. They just seemed to appear.” However, Purcell knew they had a meaning, and the answer came to her from a poem: May Sarton’s “The Invocation to Kali,...

Bayadere Triptych in Purcell's studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn Studio door- Star Power. On Sunday I spent a fantastic afternoon visiting two of my favorite painters, Ann Purcell and David Pollack . It was a real pleasure to see more of Ann's work from the ambitious, muscular triptychs to the taciturn, banshee's wail of a series called the Kali Poem Series . Purcell recently mounted a brilliant, extremely well reviewed and successful exhibition at Berry Campbell in Chelsea. For more information on Ann's work visit the links here  and here . Ann Purcell talks painting as I listen. Photo: Robin Stout Purcell speaking about working in a triptych format. A balance of white and black from the Purcell's Kali   Poem Series Ann Purcell surrounded by paintings from her Kali Poem Series Two more stirring works from the Kali Poem Series In the racks. Three painters: Dave Pollack, Ann Purcell and Paul Behnke in Purcell...

Ann Purcell in her Red Hook studio, 2017. Ann Purcell: Caravans Opening January 4th, 6 - 8 pm Jan 4 - Feb 3, 2018 Berry Campbell 530 W 24th Street, New York, NY

  Gallery owners Christine Berry and Martha Campbell greet opening night visitors before Bannard's Truk , 1958. Seasons #1 , 1965, Alkyd resin on canvas, 66 3/4 x 62 3/4 in. Christine Berry and Martha Campbell chat with Frank Stella.   Walter Darby Bannard greets well wishers at his opening. The opening reception for Walter Darby Bannard: Minimal Color Field Paintings 1958 - 1965 took place on Thursday, March 19th. The exhibition is on view through April 18, 2015. From the Press Release: Berry Campbell is pleased to announce,  Walter Darby Bannard: Minimal Color Field Paintings 1958-1965 , featuring rare paintings and works on paper from the artist’s early years as a painter in New York and New Jersey.  Bannard, a leader in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s, has been committed to color-based and expressionist abstraction for over five decades.  The exhibition opens on Thursday, March 19 wit...

Kali Poem # 40 - Blue Deep , 2008, acrylic on canvas 72 x 60 in. Ann Purcell is a nationally recognized and highly respected artist working in Redhook, Brooklyn. Her paintings are represented in over 17 major museums in the United States - including The National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection, The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Santa Barbara Museum, The Baltimore Museum, Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the New Orleans Museum. She has the respect and support of many prominent art museum directors and contemporary curators. She has had numerous solos and group exhibitions at prestigious galleries around the country including: Tibor de Nagy Gallery , New York City; Bernard Jacobson Gallery in New York and London; Dart Gallery, Chicago; Hokin Gallery in Chicago, Miami and Palm Beach; and Osuna Gallery in Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Md. and Miami; and Misrachi Gallery in Mexico City, and most r...