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| Gavlak Gallery | |
|---|---|
| Name | Gavlak Gallery |
| Established | 2007 |
| Locations | Los Angeles; Palm Beach |
| Director | Jan Gavlak |
| Focus | Contemporary art; Modern art; Postwar art |
Gavlak Gallery is a commercial art gallery founded in 2007 that operates exhibition spaces in Los Angeles and Palm Beach. The gallery has staged solo and group exhibitions of modern, postwar, and contemporary artists, and has participated in international art fairs and museum collaborations. It is noted for presenting works by established and emerging artists across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, often engaging with historical figures and movements from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Gavlak Gallery was founded amid a landscape shaped by institutions such as Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, Guggenheim Museum, and Centre Pompidou, and during an era marked by art fairs including Art Basel, Frieze New York, Armory Show, TEFAF, and FIAC. Early exhibitions reflected dialogues with legacies associated with Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning, while later programming engaged with artists linked to Fluxus, Dada, and Abstract Expressionism. The gallery’s trajectory intersects with collectors and patrons connected to institutions such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art. Collaborations and loans have involved estates and foundations like the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Estate of Louise Bourgeois, and Estate of Mark Rothko. Directors and curators associated with Gavlak have participated in panels and projects with curatorial figures from Fondation Louis Vuitton, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Hammer Museum, Dia Art Foundation, and Walker Art Center.
Gavlak operates a Palm Beach space proximate to institutions such as Norton Museum of Art, Flagler Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Rubell Museum, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and a Los Angeles venue situated amid neighborhoods connected to Bergamot Station Arts Center, Mid-Wilshire, Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, Melrose Avenue, and West Hollywood. Gallery sites have been used for solo retrospectives, thematic group shows, and salon-style installations referencing exhibitions at Venice Biennale, São Paulo Art Biennial, Documenta, and Skulptur Projekte Münster. The physical spaces accommodate paintings, sculptures, photographs, archival material, and time-based media, often installed in dialogue with nearby cultural landmarks including Getty Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Broad, Hammer Museum, and Annenberg Space for Photography.
Programming has included exhibitions of modern masters and contemporary practitioners, echoing presentations found at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Royal Academy of Arts, Serpentine Galleries, and Hayward Gallery. The gallery has mounted shows focused on individual artists with historical significance tied to figures such as Hilma af Klint, Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Cy Twombly, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder, Brancusi, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Dorothea Lange, Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Wolfgang Tillmans, William Eggleston, Ansel Adams, and Imogen Cunningham. The gallery has also presented contemporary artists whose work resonates with institutions such as Gagosian Gallery, Pace Gallery, David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, White Cube, Gladstone Gallery, Lehmann Maupin, Sprüth Magers, and Perrotin. Education and public programs have included artist talks, panel discussions, and catalogues produced in collaboration with curators affiliated with Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of California, Los Angeles, ArtCenter College of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Rhode Island School of Design.
The gallery’s roster and exhibition history span figures connected to twentieth-century movements and contemporary practices, including artists whose estates or active careers intersect with museums and foundations such as Estate of Frida Kahlo, Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe, Estate of Lee Krasner, Estate of Helen Frankenthaler, Estate of Philip Guston, Estate of Joan Mitchell, Estate of Jasper Johns, Estate of Robert Rauschenberg, and living artists who have shown work alongside names represented by Matthew Barney, Kara Walker, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Ai Weiwei, JR (artist), Kehinde Wiley, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Julie Mehretu, Kiki Smith, Anish Kapoor, El Anatsui, Do Ho Suh, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Danh Vo, Okwui Enwezor, Hito Steyerl, Theaster Gates, Tino Sehgal, Grayson Perry, Mark Bradford, Mickalene Thomas, Shirin Neshat, Cecily Brown, Jenny Holzer, Robert Gober, Tacita Dean, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Bas Jan Ader, and Richard Serra.
Works exhibited and sold by the gallery have entered private and public collections associated with institutions like Smithsonian Institution, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum, Rijksmuseum, Hermitage Museum, Uffizi Gallery, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, National Gallery of Art (Washington), National Gallery, London, Art Institute of Chicago, Rijksmuseum, and university collections at Yale University Art Gallery and Harvard Art Museums. The gallery has produced catalogues, scholarly essays, and limited-edition monographs collaborating with authors and curators linked to Frick Collection, Morgan Library & Museum, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Menil Collection, Kunstmuseum Basel, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Publishing projects have referenced archives and primary sources from institutions such as Getty Research Institute, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, The National Archives (UK), and Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Critical response has been documented in art media and periodicals including Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, The Art Newspaper, Frieze (magazine), ArtReview, Bomb (magazine), Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Guardian (London), The Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Reviews and essays have situated exhibitions within conversations about postwar and contemporary art histories referencing scholarship from figures associated with Harvard Art Museums, Courtauld Institute of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Princeton University Art Museum, and curatorial discourse linked to biennials and museum retrospectives such as Venice Biennale, Documenta, São Paulo Art Biennial, Whitney Biennial, and laureates of awards including the Turner Prize, Praemium Imperiale, MacArthur Fellowship, National Medal of Arts, and Pulitzer Prize.
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