Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition of paintings by Jane Freilicher, whose estate the gallery now represents. The presentation brings together a group of Freilicher's early still lifes, portraits and the studio views that so elucidate her characteristically deft balance of interior and exterior. Hailing primarily from the 1950s and painted from various studios in lower Manhattan, they evoke a keen sense of the city's past as well as articulating Freilicher’s enduring influence: her steadfast observation and intuitive realism are detectable within the work of a number of painters working today. In anticipation of the exhibition, a solo presentation of her never-before-seen nudes will be exhibited at the ADAA: The Art Show in February. 

Over a six-decade career, Freilicher quietly painted in direct contrast to the heroic and gestured angst of Abstract Expressionism, the industrial starkness of Minimalism, and the broad sweeping cacophony of Pop.  She painted in the same spirit and dedication as Bonnard and Matisse: a subtle and unrelenting observation of domestic life. John Ashbery in a 1975 review described Freilicher with “obviously she paints what she sees, but it happens that she sees a lot."