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 to open an art gallery in Manhattan, where she began showing

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. 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

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'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 –

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and Matthew Marks Gallery – 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

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. Since 2018, Gladstone has been serving on the board of the non-profit Artists Space.

Artists

Gladstone Gallery today represents many contemporary artists, including: * Ed Atkins (since 2020) *

(since 1991) * Thomas Bayrle (since 2020) *

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(since 2020) *

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* Ian Cheng (since 2017) *

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(since 2020) *

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(since 2013) * Arthur Jafa (since 2020) *

Joan Jonas Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Anish Kapoor Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK t ...

Alex Katz Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Early life and career Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of an émigré who ha ...

(since 2020) *

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 i ...

(since 2020) *

Sarah Lucas Sarah Lucas (born 1962) is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour by incorporating photography, collage and found objects. ...

* Victor Man * Jean-Luc Mylayne (since 1997) *

Jill Mulleady Jill Mulleady is an artist. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She moved to London to study at Chelsea School of Art, in 2007–09, where she received a Master of Fine Arts. She lives and work in Los Angele ...

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* Elizabeth Peyton * Rebecca Quaytman * Rachel Rose (since 2020) *

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* Frances Stark (since 2020) *

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(since 2020) * Rosemarie Trockel * Andro Wekua * Michael Williams (since 2015) *

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In addition to living artists, Gladstone Gallery also handles the estates of the following: *

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(since 2010) *

Huang Yong Ping Huáng Yǒng Pīng (; February 18, 1954 – October 20, 2019) was a Chinese-French contemporary artist and one of the most well known Chinese avant-garde artists of his time. Born in Xiamen, he was recognized as the most controversial and provoc ...

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(since 2020) * Robert Mapplethorpe (since 2017) * Marisa Merz * Elizabeth Murray (since 2020) * Jack Smith (since) Gladstone Gallery has in the past represented the following: * Ahmed Alsoudani (until 2017) *

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(until 2019) *

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(1987-2008)

Film production

Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund

In 2008, Gladstone initiated the formation of the Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund at the

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, 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. It has featured prominent international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design and contemporary culture. Past speakers have included Jimmy Wales (2010),

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(2011),

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(2013), Hilton Als (2015) and Fran Lebowitz (2016, in conversation with

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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

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. 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. She has since moved to a townhouse in Chelsea.Sarah Medford (September 10, 2020)
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References

External links

Gladstone Gallery official site
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