Philip Slein Gallery Takes Five.

Post WW II abstraction seemed to be a man’s world. Jackson Pollack, Willem DeKooning, and Robert Motherwell rose to international fame while their spouses, Lee Krasner and Elaine DeKooning, and Helen Frankenthaler toiled in their shadows for many years. Such were the times. Times have changed.

The quality of today’s art is not judged by gender. Being a female is no longer an addendum to a spouse's career or achievement.

Take Five is an exhibition that shows five women working in diverse abstract styles, but joined subtly in the execution of their craft. We are not billing this as “a woman’s exhibition” because we have not gone out of our way to seek female painters. Here the work speaks the predominate American achievement of the past seventy-five years, and in a continual refreshing manner.

Take Five is compelling, inspiring, rewarding, and features:

Andrea Belag                                                                                                                                                                Keltie Ferris                                                                                                                                                               Joanne Greenbaum                                                                                                                                                        Eva Lundsager                                                                                                                                                              Jackie Saccoccio

Mary Judge featured in the Project Space

Mary Judge’s experiencing the decaying Bonampak murals in Chiapas, Mexico pushed her studio practice to "recapture a moment of culture laid bare in the tangled humid forest air: to adore in ribbons of hue-soaked color backgrounds composed of translucent forms.” These recent paintings evoke her "emotional state by appealing to the senses, Baroque, primeval, primary.” Mary maintains studios in both New York and St, Louis and we are proud to focus once again on our hometown talent.

Due to the social distancing guidelines we are all living with, we will not have a public reception. We will be open during our new, slightly limited hours, and of course, by appointment for those who may be unable to visit during our scheduled hours.