Barbara Gladstone ( Levitt) is an American art dealer and film producer. She is owner of Gladstone Gallery, a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York and Brussels.
Gladstone Gallery
History
In 1980, Gladstone gave up teaching art history at
Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private university in Hempstead, New York. It is Long Island's largest private university. Hofstra originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) under the name Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of Ne ...
to open an art gallery in Manhattan, where she began showing
Jenny Holzer.
From 1989 to 1992, Gladstone Gallery collaborated with Christian Stein, an Italian art gallerist, on SteinGladstone. Located in a renovated firehouse at 99 Wooster Street in Soho, the gallery concentrated exclusively on rarely seen installation works by both Italian and American artists.
Gladstone Gallery staged
Matthew Barney's first New York solo show in 1991 and has since introduce many international artists to an American audience. Before moving to Chelsea in 1996, the gallery was located in Soho and on 57th Street in New York City. In 1996, the gallery teamed up with two other galleries –
Metro Pictures and
Matthew Marks Gallery
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– to acquire and divide up a warehouse at 515 West 24th Street. In addition, Gladstone Gallery operates spaces at 530 West 21st Street and at 12 Rue du Grand Cerf in Brussels.
The gallery is also a prominent participant in many major art fairs.
In 2002, Gladstone brought Curt Marcus on as partner for several years. In 2020, Gladstone Gallery merged with
Gavin Brown's Enterprise
Gavin Brown's enterprise was an art gallery with venues in New York City and Rome owned by Gavin Brown between 1994 and 2020. In 2020, it merged with Gladstone Gallery.
History Broome Street
The gallery was established by Gavin Brown in 1994 on ...
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Since 2018, Gladstone has been serving on the board of the non-profit
Artists Space
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.
Artists
Gladstone Gallery today represents many contemporary artists, including:
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Ed Atkins
Ed Atkins (born 1982) is a British contemporary artist best known for his video art and poetry. He is currently based in Berlin. Atkins lectures at Goldsmiths College in London and has been referred to as "one of the great artists of our time" by ...
(since 2020)
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Matthew Barney (since 1991)
* Thomas Bayrle (since 2020)
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Kerstin Brätsch (since 2020)
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Carroll Dunham
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Ian Cheng (since 2017)
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LaToya Ruby Frazier (since 2020)
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(since 2013)
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Arthur Jafa
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Early life and education
Jafa was born on November 30, 1960 in Tupelo, Mississippi and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi which was hig ...
(since 2020)
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Joan Jonas (since 2020)
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Anish Kapoor
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Alex Katz (since 2020)
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Mark Leckey
Mark Leckey (born 1964) is a British contemporary artist. His found object art and video pieces, which incorporate themes of nostalgia and anxiety, and draw on elements of pop culture, span several works and exhibitions. In particular, he is ...
(since 2020)
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Sarah Lucas
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Victor Man
* Jean-Luc Mylayne (since 1997)
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Jill Mulleady
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Shirin Neshat
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Ugo Rondinone
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Elizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Joy Peyton (born 1965) is an American contemporary artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Best known for figures from her own life and those beyond it, including close friends, historical personae, and icons of ...
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Rebecca Quaytman
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Rachel Rose (since 2020)
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Amy Sillman
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Frances Stark
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(since 2020)
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Rirkrit Tiravanija (since 2020)
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Rosemarie Trockel
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Andro Wekua
Andro Wekua ( ka, ანდრო ვეკუა) (born 1977) is a Georgian artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany.
Wekua was born in Sokhumi and witnessed an ethnic conflict in Abkhazia in the 1990s. His father, the Georgia ...
* Michael Williams (since 2015)
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Anicka Yi
In addition to living artists, Gladstone Gallery also handles the estates of the following:
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Robert Bechtle
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Keith Haring (since 2010)
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Huang Yong Ping
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Jannis Kounellis (since 2020)
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Robert Mapplethorpe
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(since 2017)
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Marisa Merz
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Elizabeth Murray (since 2020)
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Jack Smith (since)
Gladstone Gallery has in the past represented the following:
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Ahmed Alsoudani (until 2017)
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Lari Pittman (until 2019)
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Richard Prince (1987-2008)
Film production
Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund
In 2008, Gladstone initiated the formation of the Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund at the
New Museum, established in honor of her late son and art dealer Stuart Regen. The gift is meant to support a series of public lectures and presentations by cultural visionaries and debuted in 2009 with choreographer
Bill T. Jones
William Tass Jones, known as Bill T. Jones, (born February 15, 1952) is an American choreographer, director, author and dancer. He is the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Jones is Artistic Director of New York Live Ar ...
. It has featured prominent international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design and contemporary culture. Past speakers have included
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known on Wikipedia by the pseudonym Jimbo, is an American-British Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedi ...
(2010),
Alice Waters (2011),
Maya Lin (2013),
Hilton Als
Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor of writing at Columbia University and a staff writer and theater critic for ''The New Yor ...
(2015) and
Fran Lebowitz (2016, in conversation with
Martin Scorsese).
Personal life
Gladstone was married to the late Elliot B. Regen. She has two sons, David and Richard Regen; her third son, Stuart Regen, died in 1998 at
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center of
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Gladstone has a younger sister, Joan Steinberg.
From 2005 until 2012, Gladstone maintained a residence at 165 Charles Street, a residential tower designed by
Richard Meier
Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings ...
. She has since moved to a townhouse in Chelsea.
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References
External links
Gladstone Gallery official site
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Living people
American art dealers
Women art dealers
American film producers
Year of birth missing (living people)