FOR JANUARY 7 –

THREE AMERICAN MODERNIST WOMEN ARTIST –

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NEW YORK CITY — DC Moore Gallery, in association with Gary Snyder Fine Art, will present exhibitions of three American modernist artists: Janet Sobel, Hilla Rebay and Beatrice Mandelman. Snyder is known for his expertise in American abstraction of the 1920s through the 1960s, and the association will complement DC Moore’s expertise in historically rooted American painting and contemporary art.

Sobel (1884–1968) is best known as the self-taught artist whose drip paintings of the early 1940s influenced Jackson Pollock. Her work, which was exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery in a solo show in 1946, has been acclaimed both in the context of Abstract Expressionism and in the “outsider” world of self-taught artists. This work will be previewed in a small exhibition at DC Moore Gallery, Friday–Sunday, January 28–30, contemporaneous with the Outsider Art Fair at the Puck Building. A major exhibition of Sobel’s work with an accompanying catalog is scheduled for the 2005-2006 season.

“Hilla Rebay and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting” is scheduled for May 12–June 30, and will focus on the pioneering artist and first director of what is now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition, with an accompanying catalog, coincides with the Guggenheim Museum’s Rebay retrospective, and will feature paintings by Rebay, Rudolf Bauer, Ilya Bolotowsky, Rolph Scarlett, Jean Xceron and others. DC Moore’s East Gallery will also present an exhibition of Rebay’s works on paper, including early abstractions from 1918 to 1922 and figurative collages of the 1920s.

Mandelman (1912–1998) is a Taos Modernist whose work was featured in the exhibition “The Triumph of Beatrice Mandelman” at The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, N.M., in 2002. Mandelman was involved in the early years of the New York School, and summered with Jackson Pollock in 1943. In 1944, Mandelman moved to New Mexico with her husband Louis Ribak, where she was part of a group of Taos Modernist artists that married Abstract Expressionism with a strong sense of the American West.

DC Moore Gallery is on the eighth floor of 724 Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets. For information, www.dcmooregallery.com or 212-247-2111.