Barbara Braathen Explained

Barbara Braathen is an American art dealer, gallerist and curator. She owned galleries of contemporary art in New York from 1980 to 2005.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Barbara Braathen
Birth Place:North Dakota, US
Nationality:American
Occupation:Art Dealer, Gallerist, Curator
Known For:Contemporary Art

Biography

From 1980 to 1983, Barbara Braathen operated Braathen-Gallozzi Fine Art in New York City with Guillaume Gallozzi.[6]  [7] This became the Barbara Braathen Gallery, which was active in Lower Manhattan until 1998.[8] From 2000 to 2005, she owned River Gallery in upstate New York.[9] [10]

Braathen's exhibition program encompasses an eclectic mix of contemporary art. This includes urban artist Rammellzee,[11] French language artist Guy de Cointet, spiritual expressionist Hunt Slonem,[12] debris and found object sculptor Donald Lipski,[13] surrealist poet Charles Henri Ford,[14] actor-artist Fred Gwynne, and Mexican-American painter Raul Guerrero.[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

A highlight for Braathen was the Surrealismo exhibition in 1986 curated with legendary art dealer,Leo Castelli.[21] [22]

Barbara Braathen was born in North Dakota in 1944 and began selling her own paintings by the age of 14. By 1973, she received her PhDc in Modern Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Braathen's special interest is in artists addressing the Spiritual in Art, from Symbolists to Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint to present day creators.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: YouTube Barbara Braathen - Google Search . 2023-12-15 . www.google.com.
  2. Web site: Barbara Braathen – An Aesthete in The Art Industry . 2023-12-15 . www.readersdigest.co.uk . en-GB.
  3. Web site: UpperDelaware.com - Visitor Information . 2022-08-03 . www.upperdelaware.com.
  4. Web site: Kino . Carol . 1996-07-01 . Living-Room Galleries 96.07 . 2022-08-03 . The Atlantic . en.
  5. Web site: Governance . 2022-08-03 . spring-river . en.
  6. Web site: Carrie Rickey on Jamie Dalglish . 2022-08-03 . www.artforum.com . en-US.
  7. Solte . Franziska . 2020-07-01 . Guy de Cointet: The Theatricality of the Code . Signata. Annales des sémiotiques / Annals of Semiotics . en . 11 . 10.4000/signata.2687 . 2032-9806 . 225614562. free .
  8. Web site: Barbara Braathen Gallery . 2024-01-03 . Artforum . en-US.
  9. Web site: Staff Writer . Local painter explores luminous frontier . 2022-08-03 . Times Herald-Record . en-US.
  10. Web site: SERENDIPITY STRIKES WITH OXFORD GUIDE . 2022-08-03 . artnet.com.
  11. Web site: Mitter . Siddhartha . 2018-06-21 . How Rammellzee Turned Graffiti Into Urban Mythology . 2022-12-18 . The Village Voice.
  12. Web site: Solo - Hunt Slonem . 2023-12-15 . www.huntslonem.com . en.
  13. Web site: Passing Time . 2023-12-15 . Donald Lipski . en-US.
  14. Web site: 1987-01-01 . BOMB Magazine Charles Henri Ford . 2023-12-15 . BOMB Magazine.
  15. Web site: Raul Guerrero . 2022-08-03 . CUE Art Foundation . en-US.
  16. Web site: Carlo McCormick on Rammellzee . 2022-08-03 . www.artforum.com . en-US.
  17. Web site: 2005-05-23 . Art in America: John Wells at Barbara Braathen - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions . https://web.archive.org/web/20050523102943/http:/www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n10_v82/ai_15821925 . 2005-05-23 . 2022-08-03.
  18. Web site: Kirby Gookin on Peter Grass . 2022-08-03 . www.artforum.com . en-US.
  19. Web site: Carlo McCormick on Fred Gwyne . 2022-08-03 . www.artforum.com . en-US.
  20. Web site: Jon Ash on John Wells . 2022-08-03 . www.artforum.com . en-US.
  21. Web site: Barbara Braathen - Specific Object .
  22. Web site: Barbara Kruger . 2022-08-03 . artnet.com.

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