James Fuentes
gallery · TriBeCa
Eclectic program across painting and sculpture; strong on artists outside the dominant trends.
On view
The Song of the EarthAllegorical paintings spanning seven decades by nonagenarian Gerald Wartofsky, drawing on classical music, Kabbalistic texts, and personal loss to meditate on cultural transmission and mortality.
Epic AbstractionAl Held's monumental hard-edged geometric paintings from 1959–1965, tracing his break from gestural abstraction toward the Alphabet series.
Sometime Somewhere Someone Is DancingLola Stong-Brett's gestural paintings merge cartoon figures, ocean imagery, and fragmented text to explore human connection, loss, and emotional currents.
The Page Before MeOil paintings layered through iterative processes of application, excavation, and renewal, each accompanied by graphite rubbings that record the work's material transformation.