40th Anniversary page


The Bowery Gallery opened on October 31st, 1969. It started in the advent of a figurative art movement emerging in response to the minimalism, conceptualism, and Pop Art in the uptown galleries and museums. Having found alternative inspiration in the grand humanist tradition and in figurative artists of the previous generation such as Rosemary Beck, Paul Georges, Leland Bell, Aristodemos Kaldis and others, a number of younger artists spearheaded by Studio School alumnus, Larry Faden and joined by many of the older artists had formed a group called The Alliance of Figurative Artists. Every Friday they would meet and informally and passionately thrash out the issues they felt were crucial to this new figuration including the pertinence of various subjects, approaches to narration, brushy expressionism vs. "fingernail" realism or wet versus dry painting, and the common problems they faced in representing the three-dimensional world, without irony, on a two-dimensional surface or in sculpture. The meetings often lead to studio visits among artists of like mind where the criticisms were devastatingly to the heart of the matter, as only they could be from trusted eyes. This was the spirit of friendship and new possibilities in which Larry Faden who had taken the initiative of organizing the first meeting of The Alliance of Figurative Artists, and remembering the energy of the 10th Street gallery movement of the fifties, proposed the formation of an artist-run gallery, The Bowery Gallery, which might set the diversity of the new approaches to figuration that existed at the Alliance meetings against a largely closed officialdom of cold formalism and impact imagery. Another representational gallery, First Street, followed a month or two later. This was followed many months later by Prince Street and much later by Blue Mountain. From the initial group of 23, the list of former and present Bowery members has grown to over a hundred artists. Though members are no longer exclusively figurative, all have shared in their work the same excitement for the celebration of significant form that engendered the Bowery Gallery's founding forty years ago. PAGES: Bowery Gallery's 40th Anniversary Gallery Members and Associates Exhibit June 22 - July 10, 2010 View a selection of former member's images	Bowery Gallery Members 1969 – 2009 F = Founder C = Current Member D = Deceased (Compiled by Barbara Grossman)

	Michael Amandalara Larry Armstrong Martha Armstrong – C Isser Aronovici – D Susan Arthur Rita Baragona- C William Barnes Therese Bartol Nancy Beal – F Temma Bell – C Michael Berg Lourdes Bernard Ruth Bernard – C Joseph Bilger Rodney Bogner – D David Bradford – C John Bradford – F – C Aaron Brooks Stephen Brown Charlotte Bunting – F Diana Cabouli – C David Campbell Simon Carr Lynda Caspe – F – C Richard Castellana William Chambers Brian Chu Nicolas Colao – F - D Linda Covello Michael Crespo – F Jane Culp Judy Cuttler David Dallessandro – D Don Davis Susan Daykin Anne Delaney – C Stephanie DeManuelle Esti Dunow Michael Eisenman – D Pam Endacott Lawrence Faden - F Tina Feingold Robert Franca Sherron Francis – F Stephanie Franks – C Marvin Gates		John Opie Iris Osterman – C Marilyn Palmeri Hearne Pardee – C Mary Patton William Plevin-Foust Ed Puls – D Peter Rappoli Daniel Riccuito Marie Roberts Lynn Rosenfeld Deborah Rosenthal – C Anthony Santuoso - F Gerard Santuoso Marylou Schuck – C Fred Schultz - D Dena Schutzer – C Tony Serio – C Susan Shaw – C Lynn Sherr Anthony Siani - F - D Jack Silberman - F June Silverberg Rachel Siporin Frank Smullin – F - D Kyle Staver Laura Stone Patty Stone Walter Strach – C Bill Sullivan - F Wendy Sussman - D Charles Swisher Esme Thompson – C Sam Thurston - F Ian Tornay – C Norman Turner Evelyn Twitchell – C Richard Uhlich - F John Van Rens Carlos Velazquez Carolyn Virgil Jim Wilson Peggy Wood Robert Yarber - F John Zeaman
		John Goodrich – C Barbara Goodstein – C Janet Gorzegno – C Margaret Grace Ron Graff Ira Greenberg Bernard Greenwald Steve Grillo Barbara Grossman – F Christine Hartman – C Jessie Hedden – C Myron Heise David Holt Ben Huberman Robert Jessel – C Deborah Kahn – C Howard Kalish – F Diane Kominick Ouzoonian Garrett Korfitzen – F Valerie Kremer Richard La Presti – C Bette Lang – F – D Mark Le Riviere Stanley Lewis Ying Li Dik Liu Adrianne Lobel – C Lynette Lombard – C Eugene Maise - F Anthony Martino Nicole Maynard-Sahar Frank McCall – F - D Patti McManus Ruth Miller David Mollett – C Gael Mooney Bill Moore - F Michael Moorse – C William Morales Sharon Moreau Harry Naar Nagib Nahas – C Naomi Nemtzow – C Gary Niswonger Janice Nowinski – C