Forum Gallery

Forum Gallery is pleased to present "Summer of Love", opening today and continuing through Friday, August 28th. "Summer of Love" offers more than twenty modern and contemporary paintings, works on paper, quilts, and sculpture by seventeen artists, imparting the frolicsome fever of summertime love and play.

Ethereal, rapturous works by Amélie Chabannes, Nathaniel Aric Galka, Chaim Gross (1902-1991), Brian Rutenberg, and Ben Shahn (1898-1969), transport us to dreamy worlds of spiritual transcendence. The expressions of these artists defy the earthbound physicality of their distinctive hand and textural mediums.

Alongside these otherworldly gems are atmospheric depictions of places and spaces rendered with the unique talents of visionary artists Frederick Brosen, Davis Cone, Linden Frederick, Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000), Bernard Karfiol (1886-1952), and Anthony Mitri. Furthering the mood are tender and spirited moments by Rance Jones, Béla Kádár (1877-1956), Clio Newton, Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), Michael C. Thorpe, and Max Weber (1881-1961) also on view in "Summer of Love".

To preview "Summer of Love", you are invited to visit our Online Viewing Room here:
https://viewingroom.forumgallery.com/viewing-room/summer-of-love

Images:
Clio Newton, "The Lovers", 2024, compressed charcoal on Coventry Rag paper, 50 x 38 inches
"Summer of Love", Forum Gallery, New York, July 6 - August 28, 2026
Frederick Brosen, "Thunderbolt", 2025, watercolor over graphite on paper, 35 x 25 inches

Happy Independence Day!

In observance of the holiday, Forum Gallery will close at 3pm today, July 2nd, reopening to the public with our "Summer of Love" exhibition beginning Monday, July 6th.

To preview "Summer of Love", you are invited to visit our Online Viewing Room here: viewingroom.forumgallery.com/viewing-room/summer-of-love

Image:
Frederick Brosen, "Canteen, Provincetown", 2024, watercolor and graphite on paper, 14 x 11 inches

Our current exhibition, "Spring Jewels", celebrates the transformative nature of spring, harnessing the energy of renewal and the vitality of boundless artistic expression. Works by Nathaniel Aric Galka, Chaim Gross, and Cybèle Young are rooted in things familiar, yet each artist's expression transforms their subjects into wholly unique visions imparting reflections on humanity.

"I got the gossip..." is one of two enchanting works by Nathaniel Aric Galka included in "Spring Jewels". His paintings invite the viewer into a fanciful land where animals, birds, bees and other insects have seemingly formed comraderies in a post-human world still reeling from the devastation mankind left behind. The message unveiled through the utterly beautiful world Galka conjures, is one of hope and optimism that renewal may be achieved.

Forum Gallery is pleased to make available to our audience works by Nathaniel Aric Galka. To learn more about his art and see a selection of paintings available at Forum Gallery, we invite you to visit our Online Viewing Room for Nathaniel Aric Galka here: viewingroom.forumgallery.com/viewing-room/nathaniel-aric-galka

Chaim Gross (1902-1991) is remembered for his contributions to American Modernist sculpture in his direct wood carvings and tactile bronzes of jubilant circus performers, and intimate mother and child pairings. Gross worked in a combination of traditional and tribal/folk styles to render figures in various states of solitude and joyous interdependence. In "Ballerinas (Version 1)", 1966, Gross's intricately textured bronze surface suggests the fluidity and physicality of the dancer's bodies in motion. Acrobatic performance was a major inspiration for the Artist, as it allowed him to experiment with non-traditional ways of depicting the body. Breaking free from the weight and solid mass of wood, his light and linear bronze works became even more dynamic and elegant, defying gravity with daring poses tumbling through space.

To view more works available by Chaim Gross, visit his Artist Page here: forumgallery.com/artists/chaim-gross

Cybèle Young is recognized for her meticulously made paper sculptures inspired by the fleeting aspects of everyday life. "In Close Range (Lost - binoculars)" is an ambitious, large-scale work for the Artist. Through the intricate handling of fine Japanese paper, Young has created a miniature world that has evolved entirely from the quotidian subject of binoculars. An artifact of human life, they are mysteriously metamorphosed into different states of being, shifting and changing in unexpected and magical ways. Young’s work is at once intimate, dramatic, and endlessly engaging.

To view more works available by Cybèle Young, visit her Artist Page here: forumgallery.com/artists/cybele-young

"Spring Jewels" is on view through Friday, June 26th.

To preview "Spring Jewels", you are invited to visit our Online Viewing Room here: viewingroom.forumgallery.com/viewing-room/spring-jewels

Through September 11th, Forum Gallery is located on the 11th Floor of the Fuller Building, 41 E 57th St, New York. During this time, our hours of operation are Monday through Friday, 10am to 5:30pm, closed weekends and holidays.

Images:
Nathaniel Aric Galka, "I got the gossip...", 2020, oil, gold leaf, ink and cold wax on marble plastered jute wrapped panel, 16 x 16 inches
Chaim Gross, "Ballerinas (Version 1)", 1966, Bronze, 16 1/4 x 13 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches, Lifetime cast, Edition of 9
Cybèle Young, "In Close Range (Lost - binoculars)", 2015, Japanese paper construction, 23 x 36 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches
"Spring Jewels", Forum Gallery, New York, May 19 - June 26, 2026