Brooke Alexander Gallery

The Brooke Alexander Gallery is an art gallery in New York City founded in 1968 by Brooke and Carolyn Alexander in a storefront on East 68th Street. It is a member of The Art Dealers Association of America.[1]

History

Brooke Alexander Gallery began by publishing artists' prints and multiples in the fall of 1968.[2] Since then, Brooke Alexander Gallery has published over 1,500 editions.[3] The Alexanders moved the gallery twice in the next few years and in 1972 opened at 26 East 78th Street. The gallery located to 57th Street in 1975 and regularly exhibited both paintings and prints.[4] In 1985 it moved to 59 Wooster Street, in the downtown area of New York City, into an art neighborhood that had been named SoHo and included 83 other art galleries.[5] The art dealer David Zwirner got his start in the art business there.[6]

The Alexanders separated in the early 1990s, and Mr. Brooke Alexander, whose brother was the artist Peter Alexander[7] became the sole owner/director of the gallery. In 1995, Carolyn Alexander joined with prior Brooke Alexander Gallery director, Ted Bonin, to created the Alexander and Bonin Gallery. In 1997, Alexander and Bonin moved to a three story building in Chelsea, and in 2016 moved to 47 Walker Street in Tribeca.

Historic Notability

In many ways, the history of Brooke Alexander Gallery is a large part of the history of the New York art world of the late-20th Century.[8] Recognizing this, in 1994, 25 years of work at the Brooke Alexander Gallery was honored at the Smithsonian Institution.[9]

Wendy Weitman, from the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art has said that "Brooke Alexander began publishing prints and multiples in the fall of 1968. The range of artists that he initially chose - from painterly realists such as Jack Beal and Fairfield Porter to hardedge abstractions such as Joseph Albers - was an early clue to the versatility and scope that have characterized his productive career. Consistently working with both established and emerging artists, he has published over 1,500 editions with more than 75 painters and sculptors. Surveying his publications thus offers a particularly dynamic view of American printmaking of the last quarter century".[10]

Artists

Besides for the publication of Minimalist art prints, the gallery is known for the Colab artists (and friends) it represented in the 1980s and whose careers it helped launch, including:

In addition to these artists, Brooke Alexander Gallery also publishes and handles work by:

References
  1. Brooke Alexander, Inc. listing at The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) a nonprofit membership organization of the nation's leading galleries in the fine arts
  2. "Brooke Alexander, Inc". Artnet. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  3. MODERN GALLERIES DRAWN TO SOHO By Douglas C. McGill The New York Times Sept. 17, 1985
  4. Grace Glueck (September 24, 1982). "ART: AFTER 2 YEARS, 'SELECTED PRINTS III'". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  5. Inside Art By Carol Vogel Sept. 10, 1993 The New York Times
  6. Lubow, Arthur (7 January 2018). "The Business of Being David Zwirner". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  7. "Peter Alexander, who created ethereal worlds out of resin, dies at 81". Los Angeles Times. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  8. Brooke Alexander Archive Cards at 98 Bowery
  9. For 25 years : Brooke Alexander editions : the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tatyana Grosman Gallery, January 27-May 17, 1994 at the Smithsonian Libraries
  10. For 25 years : Brooke Alexander editions : the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tatyana Grosman Gallery, January 27-May 17, 1994 at the Smithsonian Libraries
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