525 West 26th Street First Floor New York, NY 10001 t 212.564.8480 f 212.564.8485 info@georgeadamsgallery.com GALLERY HISTORY The Figure, San Francisco Bay Area and Latin American Art The George Adams Gallery was originally established as the Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, in 1952. The Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York opened in 1959 and George Adams began his association with the gallery in 1980. In 1988 the name was changed to the Frumkin/Adams Gallery, which it remained until Allan Frumkin's retirement in 1995, when the name was changed once more to the George Adams Gallery. In the summer of 2005, after 46 years on 57th Street, the gallery relocated to West 26th Street in Chelsea. The George Adams Gallery represents and regularly exhibits the work of 25 artists ranging from very established to emerging. Several - Jack Beal, Roy DeForest, James McGarrell and Peter Saul - have been with the gallery since the early 1960s, while others, such as Lesley Dill, became associated with the gallery more recently. In fact, the gallery has continually introduced younger, emerging artists over the years, many of whom have since gone on to achieve significant reputations. Since 1990 the gallery has given artists James Barsness, Jose Bedia, Yoan Capote, Don Colley, Valerie Demianchuk, Diane Edison, Andrew Lenaghan, Anthony Kulig, Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Sandy Winters, and most recently Amer Kobaslija, their first solo exhibitions in New York. REALIST AND FIGURATIVE ART The gallery has long been known for representing Realist and Figurative artists such as Jack Beal and James Valerio as well as handling works by Alfred Leslie and Philip Pearlstein. The gallery also represents a new generation of Realists, including Valerie Demianchuk, Diane Edison, Amer Kobaslija and Andrew Lenaghan. Not limited to painting, the gallery also exhibits figurative based sculpture, including work by Robert Arneson, Lesley Dill, and most recently Michael Ferris. CALIFORNIA/BAY AREA PAINTING AND SCULPTURE The gallery has also been a showcase for artists associated with the Bay Area. The gallery represents the estates of Robert Arneson (1930-1992) and Joan Brown (1938-1990), Roy DeForest, and Richard Shaw, who have been associated with the gallery since the 1970s or earlier. More recently artists James Barsness and Enrique Chagoya as well as the Estate of Joyce Treiman have been added to this list. The gallery also handles works on resale by H.C. Westermann and William T. Wiley. LATIN AMERICAN ART The gallery has had a long involvement with contemporary Latin American art going back to exhibitions of paintings and sculpture by Matta in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Latin American artists who had their first solo exhibitions in the United States with the gallery include Luis Cruz Azaceta (1978), Jose Bedia (1991), Rosana Palazyan (1998) and Yoan Capote (2004). The gallery also exhibits the work of Arnaldo Roche Rabell, as well as works from the estates of Carlos Alfonzo (1950-1991) and Juan Francisco Elso (1956-1988).