New York – Gallery 125 Newbury is pleased to announce the opening of their new New York project space, directed by Arne Glimcher, founder of Pace Gallery, on the corner of Broadway and Walker Streets in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. The new space opens to the public on September 30, 2022 with Wild Strawberries, an intergenerational group show by 17 artists whose works oscillate in dreamlike exchanges between menace and seduction.
Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 cinematic masterpiece, Wild Strawberries brings together sculpture, painting, photography and film by a variety of artists including Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Julie Curtiss, Alex Da Corte, Doreen Lynette Garner, Robert Gober and David Hammons, Deana Lawson, Shahryar Nashat,
Brandon Ndife, Kathleen Ryan, Lucas Samaras, Max Hooper Schneider, Kiki Smith, Paul Thek, Hannah Wilke, and Zhang Huan. The exhibit spans 3,900 square feet with 17-foot ceilings and has been completely renovated by architects Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski of Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture.
In the extended dream sequence that opens Bergman’s film, a hand touches the shoulder of a faceless figure whose body is suddenly reduced to an empty pile of clothes, from which liquid is seeping onto the sidewalk. Such surreal transformations recur in all of Wild Strawberries’ work, implying the body as a fragile and contingent thing, a place for fear and pleasure. In addition to paintings, sculptures and photographs, the exhibition also features excerpts from narrative and experimental films with a similar sensitivity, selected in collaboration with filmmaker and researcher Vito Adriaensens.
Wild Strawberries cultivates a garden of very different practices that shape and reshape the body. The works in the exhibition examine the power of sensation and examine art’s ability to create pleasure with the same gesture with which it inspires terror.
The exhibition draws on the work of key figures from the post-1960s generation, which mobilized the aesthetics of physical humiliation for intriguing, disturbing, and political ends. The nightmarish forms of Bontecou are juxtaposed with the exquisite formlessness of Benglis, the physical poetry of Wilke with the cruel delights of Samaras and Thek. Engaging the viewer on a visceral level, these works are brought into dialogue with sculptures and photographs from the 1980s and 1990s by Hammons, Smith, Gober and Zhang. The language of contradiction is haunted by struggles of power, politics, race and gender embedded in the work’s formal presence.
Oscillating between feelings of repulsion and attraction, Wild Strawberries pursues this dialogue further in the work of an emerging cohort of contemporary artists including Da Corte, Curtiss, Garner, Nashat, Ndife, Ryan and Schneider. Drawing on previous precedents, her practices forge new cross-pollinations between the worlds of painting, sculpture, film, photography and installation.
Gallery 125 Newbury will act as an extended platform for Arne Glimcher’s curatorial vision. Gallery 125 Newbury will maintain an independent program but will operate in conjunction with Pace. The space will avoid the traditional gallery model, presenting up to five exhibitions per year, with an emphasis on themed group exhibitions of work by established and emerging artists within and outside of Pace’s program. Kathleen McDonnell, Talia Rosen and Oliver Shultz will serve as directors of the new space alongside Glimcher.
Wild Strawberry Artist List
Lynda Benglis (born 1941)
Lee Bontecou (born 1931)
Julie Curtiss (born 1982)
Alex Da Corte (born 1980)
Doreen Lynette Garner (born 1986)
Robert Gober (born 1954)
David Hammons (born 1943)
Deana Lawson (born 1979)
Shahryar Nashat (born 1975)
Brandon Ndife (born 1991)
Kathleen Ryan (born 1984)
Lucas Samaras (born 1936)
Max Hooper Schneider (born 1982)
Kiki Smith (born 1954)
Paul Thek (1933 – 1988)
Hannah Wilke (1940 – 1993)
Zhang Huan (born 1966)
125 Newbury is a project space in New York City led by Arne Glimcher, founder and chairman of the Pace Gallery. Named for the original location of Pace, which Glimcher opened in 1960 at 125 Newbury Street in Boston, the gallery is located at 395 Broadway in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, on the corner of Walker Street. Occupying 3,900 square feet of ground floor space in a landmark building with 17-foot ceilings, 125 Newbury’s interior has been completely renovated by Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski of Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture.
Guided by Glimcher’s six decades of pioneering exhibition activity and an unwavering commitment to working closely with artists, 125 Newbury presents up to five exhibitions per year. The gallery focuses on both thematic group shows and solo shows by emerging, established, and historical artists. The 125 Newbury team is led by directors Arne Glimcher, Kathleen McDonnell, Talia Rosen and Oliver Shultz, who work together to develop innovative and thought-provoking exhibitions with a global, intergenerational perspective.
Pace is a leading international art gallery, representing some of the most influential contemporary artists and estates of the past century, with decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Barbara Hepworth, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson and Mark Rothko. Pace enjoys a unique US legacy spanning the East and West Coasts through his early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements. Since its founding by Arne Glimcher in 1960, Pace has developed a distinguished legacy as an artist-first gallery, hosting pioneering historical and contemporary exhibitions. Under the current leadership of President and CEO Marc Glimcher, Pace continues to support its artists and share their visionary work with a global audience by staying with us
The pinnacle of innovation. Today, Pace has nine locations worldwide, including a European leg in London and Geneva; two galleries in New York; Los Angeles; palm beach; east hampton; and Hong Kong and Seoul, as well as an office and showroom in Beijing.
Gallery 125 Newbury
395 Broadway at Walker St.
new York
