Locks Gallery is pleased to present a curated selection of artists for the 2021 Armory Show at the state-of-the-art Javits Center in New York City.

Featuring works by Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941), Lynda Benglis (b. 1941), Louise Fishman (1939-2021), Jane Irish (b. 1955), Joanna Pousette-Dart (b. 1947), Pat Steir (b. 1938), and others, Locks Gallery's proposal highlights our fifty year commitment to showcasing established and mid-career women artists.

Jennifer Bartlett’s paintings examine pictorial space within a systematic framework, often using multiple iterations of the same image or theme. Known for her monumental steel-plate piece "Rhapsody" (1975–76), in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, her work oscillates between mathematical abstraction and painterly iconography, revealing the process and parameters of painting through her layered use of elemental marks and grid-based compositions.

Lynda Benglis' gravity-defying pleated metal wall sculptures—made of industrial sprayed metal over mesh armatures—evoke Greek drapery and reinterpret traditions of classical sculpture through their anthropomorphic forms. 

Oil paintings by the late Louise Fishman continue an engagement with the emotional force of Abstract Expressionism and her ambivalent relationship to this male-dominant painting tradition. Fishman's forceful gestures and emotive mark-making confront viewers with an undeniable power and physicality that re-writes the landscape of abstraction.

Jane Irish's fervent and expressionistic paintings of opulent interiors interweave signifiers of colonialism and war, offering historical subtexts to images of beauty and power.

Joanna Pousette-Dart's poetic and sublime shaped paintings bring the transcendent tradition of abstraction to new dimensions through their idiosyncratic combinations of color, form, and line and their panoramic allusions to a shifting horizon.

Pat Steir's paintings are a phenomena in their own right, deftly employing gravity and the fluid properties of oil paint to form chance-driven compositions that drip down and splash across the surface in luminescent layers.