125 Newbury
Artists, curatorial team, advisors, and partners connected to 125 Newbury.
Artists
Represented and guest artists exhibiting with the gallery.
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko (1903–1970) was a Latvian-born American painter and a pioneer of the New York School. Born in Dvinsk in the Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States as a child. After figurative and then mythic, biomorphic work in the 1930s and 1940s, he arrived at the Color Field paintings for which he is best known: large canvases, produced from 1949 until his death, in which soft-edged rectangles of luminous, layered color seem to float on the surface. Rothko held that painting could communicate basic human emotions and offer a profound psychological and spiritual experience. Although he did not subscribe to any single school, he is closely associated with Abstract Expressionism.
Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker and a leading figure of the New York School. An advocate of abstraction, he drew on automatism, Surrealism, and so-called primitive art. He first gained wide recognition for his Pictographs of the 1940s, which combine biomorphic and totemic imagery within compartmentalized grids, and went on to develop his Labyrinths, Imaginary Landscapes, and Bursts. In 1950 he organized the protest against an exhibition policy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that made him and his fellow artists known as the Irascibles.