
Future Proof in The New Criterion
The Critic’s Notebook, February 11, 2025,
Founded in 1936, the American Abstract Artists association continues to attract artist-members of high quality. “Future Proof” is an exhibition of seventeen of them, now on view at Westbeth Gallery in the West Village. The show ranges from the biomorphic transfers of Stephen Maine to the casual geometries of Jason Stopa, the oceanic currents of Joanne Freeman to the crystalline edges of Sonita Singwi. Curated by Jared Linge, the colorful exhibition reveals abstraction’s continued vitality.
—James Panero

at Westbeth Gallery
February 5–23, 2025
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 5th, 6–9 p.m.
Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune Street, New York, NY 10014
Gallery hours: Wed–Sun, 1–6 p.m.
Future Proof is a group show curated by Jared Linge for American Abstract Artists, featuring 17 of the group’s members. This exhibition examines the way that longevity in art can meaningfully shape communities and cultural landscapes over time. Here, “longevity” refers to the ability of art to endure, develop, and proliferate on its own terms, regardless of trends and circumstances. In an industry where social media and the art market reduce discourse to an endless succession of changing fashions, Future Proof positions communities of career-long practices as an alternative model. In this context, longevity is achieved both in open systems of making and an intergenerational collaborative spirit.
Featured Artists: Jeffrey Bishop, Jacob Cartwright, Joanne Freeman, Lynne Harlow, Carl E. Hazlewood, Pinkney Herbert, Jane Logemann, Stephen Maine, Russell Maltz, Tom McGlynn, Manfred Mohr, Lisa E. Nanni, Jim Osman, Sonita Singwi, Melissa Staiger, Jason Stopa, and Li Trincere

Playback: Abstract Art Exhibition: Japan and U.S.A. (1955)
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan
April 16–August 25, 2024
Playback revisits Abstract Art Exhibition: Japan and U.S.A. held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) in 1955. In conjunction with the exhibition, MOMAT has reprinted the 1955 catalogue along with a contemporary insert containing historical information and documentary materials.
Image: George L. K. Morris, Nocturnal Convergence, 1950
Journal No. 6
Past/Present: American Abstract Artist Members Honor Their Predecessors
American Abstract Artists’ sixth journal looks back on our history, as 32 members recall in word and image a former or past member, no longer living, who has inspired or encouraged us, or simply whose work we admire.
See the Journal No. 6 page for more information and for viewing and purchasing options.

Catalogue: ON BALANCE
On Balance:
New Work by American Abstract Artists
Curated by Mary Birmingham
The exhibition took place at Art Cake in Brooklyn, NY, April 15 – May 14, 2023.
For more information about the exhibition, to view installation images, and to purchase or view the catalogue, see the exhibition page.

ON BALANCE at Art cake
New work by American Abstract Artists
Curated by Mary Birmingham
April 15–May 14
Art Cake
214 40th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Gallery Hours: Fri/Sat/Sun Noon–6p
Featured Artists:
Alice Adams, Liz Ainslie, Steven Alexander, Emily Berger, Jeffrey Bishop, Susan Bonfils, Marvin Brown, Jacob Cartwright, James Clark, Gabriele Evertz, Laurie Fendrich, Joanne Freeman, Cris Gianakos, Gary Golkin, Gail Gregg, James Gross, Lynne Harlow, Carl E. Hazlewood, Mara Held, Pinkney Herbert, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Rhia Hurt, Julian Jackson, James Juszczyk, Cecily Kahn, Marthe Keller, Iona Kleinhaut, Victor Kord, Jane Logemann, Stephen Maine, Nancy Manter, Joanne Mattera, Creighton Michael, Manfred Mohr, Judith Murray, Lisa Nanni, Jim Osman, Rob de Oude, John Phillips, Corey Postiglione, Lucio Pozzi, Raquel Rabinovich, Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, Cordy Ryman, Lorenza Sannai, Karen Schifano, Mary Schiliro, Claire Seidl, Edward Shalala, Susan Smith, Melissa Staiger, Li Trincere, Kim Uchiyama, Don Voisine, Stephen Westfall, Jeanne Wilkinson, Mark Williams, Thornton Willis, Patricia Zarate, Nola Zirin
More info on the exhibition page

Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA at the Mattatuck Museum
Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
May 7 – September 3, 2023
The exhibition is touring via International Art & Artists (IA&A) See venues here.

Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA at LSU Museum of Art
Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna
LSU Museum of Art,Baton Rouge, LA
July 14, 2022 – October 23, 2022
The exhibition is touring via International Art & Artists (IA&A) See venues here.

AAA: Digital Prints, 2012–2019
American Abstract Artists: Digital Prints, 2012–2019
Herron School of Art + Architecture
Indianapolis, Ind.
January–March 2022
This exhibition includes the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio and the 2019 suite of Digital Monoprints.
A pdf of the catalogue of the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio can be viewed here.
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.
A pdf of the catalogue of the American Abstract Artists: Digital Monoprints 2019 can be viewed here.
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.

Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA at The Baker Museum
Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna
The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, March 25, 2021 – July 25, 2021
The exhibition is touring via International Art & Artists (IA&A) See venues here.

Stripes—the whole idea
January 25, 2021
Curated by Edith Newhall
Featuring works by:
Gabriele Evertz, James Juszczyk, Joanne Mattera, Don Porcaro, Mary Schiliro, Melissa Staiger, & Kim Uchiyama
Stripes is the second in a series of online exhibitions presented by American Abstract Artists. The show examines the history and endless possibilities of the stripe in abstract art.
Edith Newhall is a writer, independent curator, and art critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Oil on Masonite, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (31.1 x 23.5 cm)
Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A. E. Gallatin Collection (1946-70-19)
© The Slobodkina Foundation, New York
Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of AAA
Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of American Abstract Artists
Curated by Jason Andrew
Featuring works by:
Alice Adams, Suzy Frelinghuysen, Iona Kleinhaut, Katinka Mann, Nancy Manter, Betty Parsons, Judith Rothschild, Edith Schloss, Esphyr Slobodkina, & Karen Schifano
Groundings examines the continuing legacy of American Abstract Artists by juxtaposing the works of historic and contemporary members of the organization. This online exhibition is the first of its kind for the group. Groundings is the initial installment in a series of three online shows, each developed by a different guest curator.
Jason Andrew is an independent curator and writer based in Brooklyn.

Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA at South Bend Museum of Art
Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna
WARNER GALLERY, South Bend Museum of Art
South Bend, Indiana
October 17, 2020 – January 3, 2021
OPENING RECEPTION: October 16, 2020, 5 – 8:30 p.m
South Bend Museum of Art website here
The exhibition is touring via INTERNATIONAL ART & ARTISTS (IA&A)
See venues here.

Oil on Masonite, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (31.1 x 23.5 cm)
Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A. E. Gallatin Collection (1946-70-19)
© The Slobodkina Foundation, New York
Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age
Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age
Emily Lowe Gallery
Hofstra University Museum of Art
112 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
January 26 – June 19, 2020
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, January 26, 2-5 p.m
A pdf of the exhibition catalog can be viewed and downloaded here.
With James O. Clark, John Goodyear, Lynne Harlow, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Irene Rousseau, James Seawright, and Patricia Zarate
Curated by Museum Acting Director and Chief Curator Karen T. Albert, this show features art by members of American Abstract Artists that collides with the worlds of science, math, and technology.
Location:
Emily Lowe Gallery
Behind Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus
Tuesday – Friday, 11 am – 4 pm, Saturday and Sunday, noon – 4 pm
Directions to Hofstra University Museum of Art: https://www.hofstra.edu/community/museum/museum_general.html

AAA: Digital Prints, 2012–2019
American Abstract Artists: Digital Prints, 2012–2019
Transmitter Gallery
1329 Willoughby Ave,
Brooklyn, NY 11237
January 3 – February 9, 2020
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 3, 6-9pm
This exhibition includes the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio and the 2019 suite of Digital Monoprints.
A pdf of the catalogue of the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio can be viewed here.
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.
A pdf of the catalogue of the American Abstract Artists: Digital Monoprints 2019 can be viewed here.
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.

“Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA”
“Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present”
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna
PANEL DISCUSSION
Beyond the Gendered Lens; From the AAA Exhibition, Blurring Boundaries, to a larger discussion of Women in Contemporary Art
Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 6 – 8pm
Pen and Brush
29 East 22nd Street
New York, NY, 10010
http://www.penandbrush.org/
PANELISTS:Virginia Anderson, Curator of American Art and Department Head of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and curator of By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists, currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of ArtEmily Berger, Artist and AAA Member
Rebecca DiGiovanna, curator of the traveling exhibition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – present
Creighton Michael, Artist and AAA Member
Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, and Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art and Sexual Violence in the 1970’s
Karen Wilkin, independent curator and art critic, author of numerous publications on such artists as Katherine Bradford, Stuart Davis, Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hofmann
MODERATOR:
Joanne Mattera,Artist and AAA Member
See the video of the Panel Discussion here on our Media Page
See Panelists’ biographies here
See further viewing and reading list from the Panel Discussion here
See Creighton Michael’s introductory presentation, A Brief History of American Abstract Artists and the Women Who Helped to Make it, here
CLARA M. EAGLE GALLERY, Murray State University
September 27 – November 1, 2018
Murray, Kentucky
EWING GALLERY, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
November 15 – December 10, 2018
Knoxville, Tennessee
The exhibition is touring via INTERNATIONAL ART & ARTISTS (IA&A)
See venues here.
For more information, text, images, and media, see the exhibition page.

“Chromatic Space” at Shirley Fiterman Art Center
“Chromatic Space”
SHIRLEY FITERMAN ART CENTER
Curated by Jonathan D. Lippincott
September 22 – November 5, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 22, 6-9pm
81 Barclay St
New York, NY 10007

“Visible Histories” at Abrons Arts Center and Morris-Warren Gallery
“Visible Histories”
On view January 27 – February 21, 2016
Curated by Max Weintraub
OPENING RECEPTIONS: Saturday, January 30th
Abrons Arts Center, 5–7 pm
Morris-Warren Gallery, 7–9 pm
LOCATIONS:
ABRONS ARTS CENTER
466 Grand Street, New York, NY
tel. 212-598-0400
jdurham@henrystreet.org
abronsartscenter.org/galleries
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm
Sunday, 12–6 pm
MORRIS-WARREN GALLERY
171 Chrystie Street, New York, NY
tel. 347-261-8228
info@brianmorrisgallery.com
morriswarrengallery.com
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12–6 pm

“The Onward of Art” at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery
“The Onward of Art”
1285 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS GALLERY
Curated by Karen Wilkin
January 18 – March 25, 2016
Opening Reception: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019

“Endless Entire” at FiveMyles Gallery
Nov. 21 – Dec. 20, 2015
Opening Reception Sat., Nov. 21, 5 – 8pm
FIVE MYLES GALLERY
558 St. Johns Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238