Venus Over Manhattan, known as VENUS, is an art gallery founded in 2012 by

Adam Lindemann Adam Lindemann is a New York Based gallerist, art collector and writer who founded Venus Over Manhattan gallery in New York City in 2012. As an art collector and gallerist, Lindemann is known for setting multiple world records both at auction and pr ...

, with two locations in Manhattan.

History

VENUS is dedicated to unique and iconoclastic exhibitions featuring the work of both historic and contemporary artists. The gallery has recently staged major and critically acclaimed exhibitions of work by

Richard Mayhew Richard Mayhew (born April 3, 1924) is an Afro-Native American landscape painter, illustrator, and arts educator. His abstract, brightly colored landscapes are informed by his experiences as an African American/Native American and his interest i ...

Peter Saul Peter Saul (born August 16, 1934) is an American painter. His work has connections with Pop Art, Surrealism, and Expressionism. His early use of pop culture cartoon references in the late 1950s and very early 1960s situates him as one of the fa ...

Robert Colescott Robert H. Colescott (August 26, 1925 – June 4, 2009) was an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African American. He studied with Fernand L ...

and Jim Nutt . In addition, the gallery has shown artists and estates that it represents including

Keiichi Tanaami is one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan, and has been active as multi-genre artist since the 1960s as a graphic designer, illustrator, video artist and fine artist. Biography Keiichi Tanaami was born on 21 July 1936 as the eldes ...

, Joseph Elmer Yoakum, Maryan, H.C. Westermann,

Jack Goldstein Jack Goldstein (September 27, 1945 – March 14, 2003) was a Canadian born, California-based performance and conceptual artist turned painter in the 1980s art boom. Early life and education Goldstein was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, ...

Joan Brown Joan Brown (born Joan Vivien Beatty; February 13, 1938 – October 26, 1990) was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.Glu ...

, Roger Brown
John DoggSusumu KamijoAna BenaroyaAnastasia BaySophie LarrimoreSally Saul
an
Shinichi Sawada
In its ten-year history, VENUS has also presented exhibitions of work by

Katherine Bernhardt Katherine Bernhardt (born 1975; Clayton, Missouri) is an artist based in St. Louis, Missouri. Work and career Bernhardt received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the School of the Art Inst ...

Alexander Calder Alexander Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and hi ...

Maurizio Cattelan Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960) is an Italian artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him bei ...

, Mike Kelley, John McCracken,

David Medalla David Cortez Medalla (23 March 1942 – 28 December 2020) was a Filipino international artist and political activist. His work ranged from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation, and performance art. Early life David Cortez Med ...

Cady Noland Cady Noland (born 1956) is an American postmodern conceptual sculptor and an internationally exhibited installation artist whose work deals with the failed promise of the American Dream and the divide between fame and anonymity, among other the ...

Raymond Pettibon Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn, June 16, 1957) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for ...

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the Art movement, visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore th ...

Franz West Franz West (16 February 1947 – 25 July 2012) was an Austrian artist. He is best known for his unconventional objects and sculptures, installations and furniture work which often require an involvement of the audience. Early life and e ...

, William N. Copley
Walter Dahn
H.C. Westermann and

Roy De Forest Roy De Forest (11 February 1930 – 18 May 2007) was an American Painting, painter, Sculpture, sculptor, and teacher. He was involved in both the Funk art and Nut art movements in the Bay Area of California. De Forest's art is known for its quirk ...

. VENUS has also collaborated with prominent foundations, estates, including the Calder Foundation the estate of William N. Copley, and acquired the estate of Chicago gallerist

Allan Frumkin Allan Frumkin (1927–2002) was an American art dealer with galleries in Chicago and New York City in the second half of the 20th century. Life and career Frumkin was born in Chicago in 1927. He attended public schools and graduated from the Unive ...

. As of April 2023, the gallery occupie
two spaces at 39 and 55 Great Jones Street
in Manhattan’s Noho area.

Digital

VENUS began exhibiting digital art in 2022, starting with an exhibition of the generative digital art collection
Chromie Squiggles
' by Snowfro (Erick Calderon), one of the leading NFT projects in the digital art space, as well as hosting Mints in collaboration with the artist of new Chromie Squiggle works. In December 2021 during Art Basel Miami, Adam Lindemann moderated a talk between

Beeple Michael Joseph Winkelmann (born 20 June 1981), known professionally as Beeple, is an American digital artist, graphic designer, and animator known for selling NFTs. In his art, he uses various mediums to create comical, phantasmagoric works that ...

and American pop artist

at the Bass Museum of Art.

Artists

The gallery represents several living artists, including: *

* Susumu Kamijo * Ana Benaroya
Sally Saul
* Cornelius Annor

References

External links

* {{Upper East Side, state=collapsed Art museums and galleries in Manhattan 2012 establishments in New York City Upper East Side