Tauba Auerbach American, b. 1981

Exhibiting Artists:

Tauba Auerbach | John Baldessari | Larry Bell | Helen Berggruen | Sarah Blaustein | Katherine Boxall | Val Britton | Christopher Brown | Andy Burgess | Dean Byington | Bruce Cohen | Adriane Colburn | Travis Collinson | Mark di Suvero | June Edmonds | Charles Gaines | Daniel Gibson | Isca Greenfield-Sanders | Michael Gregory | Stephen Hannock | Sarah Hotchkiss | Seth Kaufman | Clare Kirkconnell | Matt Kleberg | Anna Kunz | Charles Lee | Barry McGee | Klea McKenna | Tom McKinley | Vanessa Marsh | Richard Misrach | Nicole Mueller | Ed Ruscha | Richard Serra | Jillian Shea | Stephanie H. Shih | Kyle Warren Smith | Joni Sternbach | Marie Thibeault | Dani Tull | Darren Waterston | Griff Williams | Jonas Wood | Christopher Woodcock

Berggruen Gallery is proud to present Abstract Perspectives, a group exhibition that highlights underrepresented voices in the world of contemporary abstract art. Abstract Perspectives will be on view from January 11th through February 29th, 2024. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, January 11th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. This curated collection furthers abstract artwork as a vital means of expression and social commentary beyond representational or stylized subject matter. While the artworks vary widely in size, media, and style, the entire show celebrates abstract art as a resistant break from convention, continually stretching the boundaries of visual language and aesthetics.

The exhibition will feature work by the following artists:

Diana al-Hadid
Tauba Auerbach
Radcliffe Bailey
Sarah Blaustein
Cecily Brown
Sarah Crowner
Heather Day
Clare Kirkconnell
Anna Kunz
Liza Lou
Julie Mehretu
Beatriz Milhazes
Odili Donald Odita

Abstract Perspectives, January 11 – February 29, 2024. On view at 10 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. Images and previews are available upon request. For all inquiries, please contact the gallery by phone at (415) 781-4629 or by email at info@berggruen.com.

We are pleased to present Contemporary Women Artists, an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by eight of the most exciting female artists creating work today, including Tauba Auerbach, Carmen Herrera, Clare Kirkconnell, Suzanne McClelland, Julie Mehretu, Beatriz Milhazes, Linda Ridgway, and Kiki Smith. This show will be on view through October 9, 2020.

Contemporary Women Artists presents a compelling selection of works by women artists who have each pioneered facets of the contemporary art canon. While Milhazes fuses cultural elements from her native Brazil with influence from European Modernist painters, Mehretu completely reenergizes and renews 21st century Abstraction. Altogether, the works composing Contemporary Women Artists are intricate yet bold; delicate yet powerful.

Spanning an intriguing breadth of subject matter, Contemporary Women Artists showcases works that both allude to and subvert mainstream ideas of femininity. Kirkconnell, Ridgway, and Smith consider the natural world in their alluring renderings while Auerbach and Herrera compose works of rigid geometries. When viewed altogether, power between delicacy and boldness is shared. The viewer can appreciate how strength radiates from seemingly fragile, natural forms while a certain subtlety can be found in the linear components of abstract works.

Contemporary Women Artists, September 3 – October 9, 2020. On view at 10 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. Images and preview are available upon request. For all inquiries, please contact the gallery by phone (415) 781-4629 or by email info@berggruen.com.

Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present Major Contemporary Works, an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by important contemporary artists. This show will be on view May 16 - July 6, 2019.

Tauba Auerbach | Cecily Brown | Christo | Tony Cragg | Sarah Crowner | John Currin | Mark di Suvero
Spencer Finch | Günther Förg | Danny Fox | Michelle Grabner | Shara Hughes | William Kentridge
Alicia McCarthy | Beatriz Milhazes | Sarah Morris | Odili Donald Odita | Tom Otterness
Martin Puryear | Joel Shapiro | Jenny Sharaf | Kiki Smith | Lucy Williams


Major Contemporary Works, May 16 - July 6, 2019. On view at 10 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. Images and preview are available upon request. For all inquiries, please contact the gallery by phone (415) 781-4629 or by email info@berggruen.com.

ABOVE AND BELOW THE SURFACE:

EIGHT ARTISTS



Tauba Auerbach

McArthur Binion

Troy Brauntuch

Thomas Eggerer

Charline von Heyl

Suzanne McClelland

Sarah Morris

Josh Tonsfeldt





February 6 – April 26, 2014



John Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of eight contemporary artists Tauba Auerbach, McArthur Binion, Troy Brauntuch, Thomas Eggerer, Charline von Heyl Suzanne McClelland, Sarah Morris, and Josh Tonsfeldt. Eight Artists examines the unique and in many cases sensitive handling of the painted surface by each artist included in the exhibition. John Berggruen Gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, February 6th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.



Tauba Auerbach (b. 1981 San Francisco, CA) has described her work as an attempt to reveal “new spectral and dimensional richness…both within and beyond the limits of perception." In her Fold paintings, Auerbach presents powdery trompe l’oeil surfaces that register the traces of their former three-dimensionality. Auerbach's work has been included in several notable museum exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the 2010 Whitney Biennial. She received SFMOMA's Society of Contemporary Art's SECA award in 2008.



McArthur Binion (b. 1946 Macon, MS) does beautiful cross-hatched, multi-media surfaces that read as paintings. Decidedly minimal, Binion’s work embodies a strong intellect rooted in the expressive capabilities of color and abstraction. He cites his work’s narrative in the use of his hands to make his paintings, and his choice of child-like materials – wax crayons – which he presses onto shaped panels. The use of the crayon as medium renders a critique to the history of painting the ability to transform the ordinary “child’s medium” into a tool that can render complex studies of color and light. Binion’s work is in numerous private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Detroit Institute of Art. He is currently a Professor of Art at Columbia College in Chicago.



Troy Brauntuch (b. 1954 Jersey City, NJ) along with Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman is one of the most important exponents of the Pictures Generation of the late 70s. Drawing from images found in newspaper, magazines, and some he has taken himself, he erases what is recognizable about them by reproducing them with crayon onto dark cotton canvases. As the largely everyday motifs – an evening gown, a glove – gradually emerge from the dark surface of the canvas they take on a beautiful and haunting psychological weight. Brauntuch was included in the 2005 Whitney Biennial, and his work is in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C; SFMOMA. In 2010 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship award.



Thomas Eggerer (b. 1963 Munich) blends abstract and figurative imagery in vivid, dreamlike fields of color. His new canvases, all of them large-scale, build on his signature approach with figures rendered within otherworldly realms, absorbed in their actions that remain rather mysterious. His figures, with undefined faces and broadly applied forms, are more anonymous than individual, cast in candied colored planes of abstraction. Eggerer’s work is in a number of public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles, and SFMOMA.

Charline von Heyl (b.1960 Mainz, Germany) creates dissonant, enigmatic canvases, constantly pushing painting in compelling new directions. While she draws inspiration from tangible objects or images, von Heyl’s paintings are not representations of real things in the world. They are an assemblage of abstractions she discovers while improvising, adding and building on her canvas. The artist says it is her way of “combining things that don’t want to go together until they make a new image.” Von Heyl’ work has been included in many notable museum exhibitions including Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, and the UCLA Hammer Museum. Her work is in several public collections including MOCA, Los Angeles, SFMOMA, and Tate, London.



Suzanne McClelland (b. 1959 Jacksonville, FL) paintings are best known for their genesis in textual elements incorporated into dramatic abstract compositions. She renders words and numbers with wiry, energetic, splashes of paint and scrape giving physicality to language. McClelland’s constellations of ciphers evoke the sound of speech while at the same time, her repetition of a single word creates a highly personal poetry about the shifting, often elusive nature of meaning. Her work is in a number of public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. McClelland’s work will also be included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.



Sarah Morris (b. 1967 London) is an internationally recognized painter and filmmaker, known for her complex abstractions, which play with architecture and the psychology of urban environments. Her canvases are smoothly reflective surfaces made up of elegant color combinations whose curves, vectors and interlocking formations reference a way of perception and speak to her exploration of the built environment. Morris’ work has been included in several important exhibitions including the 25th Bienal de São Paulo, and the Tate Triennel. Her work is in a number of public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Tate Modern, London.



Josh Tonsfeldt (b. 1979 Independence, MO) has a storyteller- meets- archeologist's sensibility. They are part of a series that relate to his visiting his Grandparents farm as the family ceased to own it, and then collecting fragments and notes and photos that are then incorporated into beautiful crusty "paintings" on paper with these remnants, bits of memory and sometimes script, included in, or hidden below, the surface. He has also cast partial architectural elements of the now deserted buildings. Tonsfeldt lives and works in New York and has been exhibited recently in group shows such as ‘Nina in Position’ at Artists Space, New York and ‘Hermann’s Grid” at Franco Soffiantino in Turin, Italy.