{"id":2183833,"date":"2026-10-07T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2183833"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:52:03","slug":"paula-cooper-gallery-spruth-magers-to-stage-shows-for-frank-stella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2183833","title":{"rendered":"Paula Cooper Gallery, Spr\u00fcth Magers to Stage Shows for Frank Stella"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tPaula Cooper Gallery and Spr\u00fcth Magers will each stage an exhibition of the work of Frank Stella next spring in New York. Additionally, they will each feature a work by the late artist in their booths at Art Basel Paris later this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe duo of exhibitions, which are being organized with the Frank Stella Estate, will be the first gallery shows dedicated to the Stella, who died in May 2024, since the now-closed Mnuchin Gallery mounted \u201cHomage To Frank Stella\u201d in September of that year.<\/p>\n

\n\tEach gallery has its own varied history with Stella. Spr\u00fcth Magers mounted two solo shows for the artist, in Berlin in 2016 and then in Los Angeles in 2018. Stella featured in group exhibitions at Paula Cooper in 1975, 1983, and 1999. More recently, he showed in 2022 at the gallery\u2019s now-defunct outpost in Palm Beach, Florida, alongside Carl Andre and Lynda Benglis, and Paula Cooper mounted a three-work exhibition for him in 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPaula had a very long and friendly relationship with Frank,\u201d senior partner Steve Henry told ARTnews<\/em> in an interview. \u201cShe met him very early on when she came to New York, and he was, of course, very close with artists affiliated with the program\u2014Carl Andre, David Novros, Sol LeWitt, Lynda Benglis\u2014so they were in the same circle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frank Stella, Tuftonboro III<\/em>, 1966.<\/span>Photo Steven Sloman\/\u00a92026 Estate of Frank Stella and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and Spr\u00fcth Magers<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tThough she knew him personally and admired him professionally, Cooper never officially represented Stella. This new exhibition, however, \u201ccame together in a very organic way,\u201d Henry said. \u201cUpon his death, I think the estate took some time to think about what the next steps would be, and they wanted help. That\u2019s something that Paula and the gallery feel we can do well. We can present the work in a different context.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis collaboration, however, does not mark an official representation of the estate with either gallery. When asked, Henry said, \u201cWe all feel that the relationship can be more organic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Stella is well-known for his contributions to postwar art history, from his now-iconic \u201cBlack Paintings\u201d (1958\u201459) to his shaped canvases from the 1960s, Henry said there is still room \u201cto expand upon his notions of radicality, his experimentation with materials and form, and provide a conversation for that in the context of some of his peers. It\u2019s an opportunity to have an exciting kind of exchange with an artist whose work is well known and present it not necessarily new way but a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe checklists for the forthcoming New York exhibitions are still being finalized, but together they will form a broad range of works from Stella\u2019s career, with both focusing on his work from the late 1970s and early \u201980s.<\/p>\n

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Frank Stella, Zabludow III<\/em>, 1973.<\/span>\/\u00a92026 Estate of Frank Stella and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tAt Art Basel Paris, Spr\u00fcth Magers will feature Tuftonboro III<\/em> (1966), one of 11 works from Stella\u2019s \u201cIrregular Polygons\u201d series, while Paula Cooper will show Zabludow Ill <\/em>(1973), one of 42 pieces from his \u201cPolish Village\u201d series. The works will be priced at $2 million and at $950,000, respectively. Each work represents an important transitional moment within Stella\u2019s oeuvre, from his initial shaped canvases to his creation of wall-hung works that blur the lines between painting and sculpture, which would soon become a hallmark of his work.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat Frank did in such an extraordinary way was stretch and expand and present a questioning of the conventions of painting,\u201d Henry said of the \u201cPolish Village\u201d series, which is inspired by a book he found showing images of the elaborately decorated 18th- and 19th-century wooden synagogues in Poland that would ultimately be destroyed by the end of World War II. \u201cHe goes from painting to sculpture in a really dynamic way, and the \u2018Polish Village\u2019 series sets that up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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