The Luhring Augustine Gallery is an art gallery in New York City. The gallery has two locations: Chelsea and Tribeca. Its principal focus is the representation of an international group of contemporary artists whose diverse practices include painting, drawing, sculpture, video and photography.
History Luhring Augustine Gallery was founded in 1985 by co-owners Lawrence R. Luhring and Roland J. Augustine. GothamistLauren A.E. Schuker (October 27, 2007), Painted Into a Corner Wall Street Journal. From 1989 until 1992, the gallery also partnered with Galerie Max Hetzler on establishing Luhring Augustine Hetzler in Los Angeles.Shauna Snow (January 19, 1992), Galleries Lose Out to Recession, Motherhood Los Angeles Times. The space was located in a refurbished building at 1330 4th Street in Santa Monica.Suzanne Muchnic (September 12, 1989), Santa Monica in Avant-Garde of New Art Season Los Angeles Times.
In 2012, Luhring Augustine opened a space in Bushwick, Brooklyn.Holland Cotter (May 3, 2012), Charles Atlas: ‘The Illusion of Democracy’ New York Times. In 2020, it opened a new space in Tribeca.
The gallery is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).Art Dealers Association of America Member Galleries by Last Name. Roland Augustine served as president of the ADAA from 2006 to 2009.Dorothy Spears (June 19, 2009), This Summer, Some Galleries Are Sweating New York Times.
Artists Each artist of the gallery has exhibited widely in museum and gallery contexts and has been regularly included in international exhibitions such as the Venice Bienniale, The Carnegie International, and Documenta. The exhibition program is best characterized by its adherence to a rigorous curatorial model that has incorporated critical monographic exhibitions such as Marcel Duchamp (1987), Gerhard Richter (1995) and Donald Judd (1999), which have served as historical antecedents for the contemporary program of the gallery.
Among others, Luhring Augustine Gallery has been representing the following living artists: Janine Antoni Charles Atlas Larry ClarkAndrew Russeth (May 17, 2017), Josh Smith No Longer Repped by Luhring Augustine, Sanya Kantarovsky Joins Gallery’s Roster ARTnews. Lee Friedlander (since 2019)Annie Armstrong (September 6, 2019), Luhring Augustine Now Co-Represents Photographer Lee Friedlander With Fraenkel Gallery ARTnews. Ragnar Kjartansson Jason Moran Michelangelo Pistoletto Pipilotti Rist Philip Taaffe (since 2012)Dan Duray (November 29, 2012), Philip Taaffe to Luhring Augustine New York Observer. Salman Toor (since 2020) Oscar Tuazon Rachel Whiteread (since 1992) Christopher WoolNumbers: Which New York Gallery Represents the Most Warhol-ian Artists? New York Observer, September 7, 2012
In addition to living artists, Luhring Augustine Gallery also handles the estates of the following: Lygia Clark (since 2017)Alex Greenberger (January 27, 2017), Lygia Clark Is Now Represented by Luhring Augustine and Alison Jacques Gallery ARTnews. Jeremy Moon (since 2017)Angela Brown (January 3, 2017), Luhring Augustine Now Represents Jeremy Moon Estate ARTnews.
Luhring Augustine Gallery has in the past represented the following: Simone Leigh (until 2020)Alex Greenberger (January 17, 2020), Simone Leigh, Sculptor with a Focus on ‘Black Female Subjectivity,’ Heads to Hauser & Wirth ARTnews. Glenn Ligon (2009-2019)Alex Greenberger (April 4, 2019), Hauser & Wirth Now Represents Glenn Ligon ARTnews. Daidō Moriyama (until 2019)Annie Armstrong (January 22, 2019), Bruce Silverstein Gallery Now Represents Daido Moriyama ARTnews. Josh Smith (until 2017) Gregory CrewdsonRichard B. Woodward (January 18, 2004), Serendipity All Over Again New York Times. Joel Sternfeld
Since its founding, Luhring Augustine Gallery has also specialized in the resale of select works of art from the 20th century by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke.
Notable exhibitions Janine Antoni's work Gnaw: Lard or Gnaw: Chocolate, the artist gnawing on lard and chocolate and turning them into lipsticks and chocolate boxes, was first exhibited at the gallery in 1992.James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz, A Companion to Narrative Theory, Blackwell Publishing, 2005, p367. Paul McCarthy's 1996 installation at the gallery, Yaa-Hoo, featured mechanized mannequins performing sexual acts.Johanna Drucker, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, University of Chicago Press, 2005, p107.
The gallery's inaugural exhibition in their Bushwick, Brooklyn location was a solo installation by Charles Atlas titled The Illusion of Democracy, which featured two large-scale video projections, Plato’s Alley (2009) and Painting By Numbers (2008). Each installation displayed massive light projections of vertical lines, grids, and numerical values. The work was a departure from Atlas' more signature style of art making that involves collaborations with dancers and other artists. He reflected, "I tried to imagine I was an unknown artist with a different sensibility."
In addition to exhibiting the work of modern and contemporary artists, Luhring Augustine has, in collaboration with Sam Fogg Galler, hosted two historical exhibitions of Medieval Art: Of Earth and Heaven (2018) and Gothic Spirit (2020).
References
External links
Luhring Augustine Gallery website