Past Exhibition

  • David Altmejd
  • Donald Baechler
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Maurizio Cattelan
  • Larry Clark
  • Francesco Clemente
  • John Currin
  • Urs Fischer
  • Keith Haring
  • Dennis Hopper
  • Mike Kelley
  • Karen Kilimnik
  • Jeff Koons
  • Paul McCarthy
  • Adam McEwen
  • Cady Noland
  • Raymond Pettibon
  • Elizabeth Peyton
  • Richard Prince
  • David Salle
  • Kenny Scharf
  • Julian Schnabel
  • Jim Shaw
  • Cindy Sherman
  • Piotr Uklanski
  • Andy Warhol
  • Christopher Wool

Remembering Henry’s Show: Selected Works 1978-2008

Greenwich May 9th to January 1st, 2010

VIRTUAL TOUR

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

 

The inaugural exhibition, Remembering Henry’s Show: Selected Works 1978–2008, is a reference to an exhibition that the late Henry Geldzahler curated in 1969 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art titled New York Painting and Sculpture 1940–1970. This exhibition established The New York School as the successor to the school of Paris and influenced the direction in which the Brant Foundation’s collection was built. Remembering Henry’s Show: Selected Works 1978–2008 will present more than 25 artists including: Donald Baechler, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Maurizio Cattelan, Larry Clark, Francesco Clemente, John Currin, Urs Fischer, Keith Haring, Dennis Hopper, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Adam McEwen, Cady Noland, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Prince, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Piotr Uklanski, Andy Warhol, and, Christopher Wool. Major outdoor sculptures will be installed around the site including Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog (1994–2000); Paul McCarthy’s Santa (2002); and, Richard Serra’s Ali-Frazier (2001). Visitors will also be able to view Jeff Koons’ Puppy, the artist’s 43-foot tall topiary sculpture, featuring over 80,000 fresh flowers, which is installed nearby.

It has been enriching to our family to build our collection, foster our relationships with the artists that we collect in-depth, and to share the collection with others through loans to important international museum shows and private tours of our home. As the collection has grown to now include more than 100 artists, we believe it is part of our stewardship to exhibit and share as much of the collection as possible. With the inauguration of the Art Study Center, it is our aim to make the collection available for study and viewing to scholars, art historians, artists, other collectors, and those who share our passion for art and design.” – Peter Brant

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center is located in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is situated in an idyllic, pastoral field. Richard Gluckman of Gluckman Mayner Architects has created a 21st century intervention that transforms the original stone barn, built in 1902 as a cold storage facility for local orchards, into an art viewing space. An 88’ by 25’ skylight is carefully introduced over the wood trusses from an earlier renovation. Three galleries and a video viewing room, each with specific spatial characteristics, are inserted into the historic structure. A 1,750-square-foot double-height gallery features a presentation wall measuring 25’ 11” by 30′, ideal for showing monumental works. Also on the ground floor are a reception area, the video viewing room, and a single-story 2,300-square-foot gallery. These spaces are finished with new, white plaster walls and terrazzo-ground concrete floors, affording an optimal setting for the display of art. The 1,500-square-foot mezzanine gallery is held back from the existing walls, allowing light to penetrate deep into the building and making the intervention distinct from the original structure. The oak floor of this upper-level gallery extends into the library with wood floors and ceiling and an existing stone hearth, retaining some of the earlier details of the building. The center will feature furniture by 20th century designers, and will house a collection of books on art and design, which will be available to visitors for study. A new stone, grass and mahogany terrace wraps the building and integrates it into the landscape.

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center Opens in Greenwich, CT

REMEMBERING HENRY’S SHOW VIRTUAL TOUR

Installation view

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
All artwork © the artists

  • Paintings Found in an O-ist Thrift Store, 2002
  • Henry Geldzahler, 1963
  • Installation view, Andreas e Mattia, 1996
  • Untitled (Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman), 1980
  • Fuckem, 1992

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Heather's, 1992-1993

Karen Kilimnik
Heathers, 1992-1993
Single-channel video
Running Time: 6 hours

Courtesy Karen Kilimnik, 303 Gallery, new York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Spruth Magers, Berlin, London

Installation view

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
All artwork © the artists

Untitled #216, 1989

Color photograph
95 x 64 inches
Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
© Cindy Sherman, Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures

  • Untitled #96, 1981
  • Untitled Film Still #21, 1978
  • Untitled #48, 1979

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman’s early, small-format black and white photographs bring to mind nostalgic memories of scenes in certain films although one cannot immediately identify these: generally these consist of a figure without any particular distinguishing features alone in some rural, urban or domestic situation.  The figure in them seems vaguely at home and yet oddly alien as though it does not really belong there.  In fact, this figure in a variety of outfits turns out to the artist herself.  Allowing her imagination to run free in a whole series of roles, she nevertheless concealed her own identity behind the striking masks she adopted, revealing nothing of her own personality, other perhaps than to hint that she was doing all of this as an alien in an alien world.  Her ego manifests itself as a multiple subject, ready to split on demand, the embodiment of multiplicity.

(Walther, Ingo F., Karl Ruhrberg, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke, Klaus Honnef, and John William. Gabriel. “The Conquest of Art and the Loss of Character.” Art of the 20th Century. Köln: Taschen, 2012. 676-77. Print.)

Untitled #465, 2008

Color Photograph
62 1/2 x 58 inches
Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
© Cindy Sherman, Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures

  • Installation view
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Ahh...Youth, 1991

8 Cibachrome photographs
24 x 18 inches each
Art © Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All Rights Reserved/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. www.vagarights.com

If I Die, 1990 Slingerlands, 2004
Untitled, 1988 She Smiles for the Camera II, 2005
All I've Heard, 1989 Untitled, 1996

  • Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1980
  • Installation view, Teenage Lust
  • Spiritual America, 1983

Tripod, 2007

Fiberglass, resin, pigment, steel, colour
Unique
105 x 72 x 80 inches
Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
© Paul McCarthy
Courtesy Paul McCarthy and Hauser & Wirth

Untitled (Three Women Looking in the Same Direction), 1980

Ektacolor photographs
3 parts: 20 x 24 inches each
Photography: Christopher Burke Studio
© Richard Prince

Art lives and breathes like a human being. Perhaps it really is the human mirror.

– Urs Fischer, An essay commissioned for the exhibition: "Remembering Henry's Show" @ The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT, 2009

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
All artwork © the artists

Bread with Egg, 1997 Installation view
One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J 241 Series), 1985 Installation View, Jeff Koons, Pink Panther, 1988
Pink Panther, 1988 Triple Elvis, 2004

Installation view

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
All artwork © the artists

Two artists, Mr. Koons and Andy Warhol, united thematically by a love of kitsch, dominate the large downstairs gallery. The pairing celebrates variety and individuality yet also marks the importance of the threads that link the two artists. This is my favorite room, for here you get to see organizational intelligence at work.

– Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times Art Review, 2009

Installation view, Piotr Uklanski, The Nazis, 1998

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.

Installation view

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
All artwork © the artists

  • Riot, 1990
  • Piotr Uklanski
The Nazis (Detail)
  • Untitled (Sugar Ray Robinson), 1982
  • Keith Haring
  • Jeff Koons
Lobster, 2003

Untitled (Acrobats), 1982

Sumi ink on paper
72 x 192 inches
Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
© Keith Haring Foundation

Installation view

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
All artwork © the artists

It was a moment in time...Everyone in that room was a friend in one way or another. It’s a slice of America in the 80s. Peter’s not about having trophies like so many collectors. The guy really cares about the artists.

– Donald Baechler, Wall Street Journal Magazine, May 12, 2009

  • Untitled (Dancing Dogs), 1981
  • Balzac, 1989
  • Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, 1982
  • The Sea, 1981
  • Per Capita, 1981

Installation view

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging
All artwork © the artists

  • Miller's Tale, 1984
  • David Salle
Installation view, King Kong, 1983
  • Kenny Scharf
Juicy Jungle, 1983-84

Installation view

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All artwork © the artists

Installation view, Pondicherry Pastels, 1979-1980 Installation view, Pondicherry Pastels
Installation view,  Pondicherry Pastels, 1979-80 Installation view, Pondicherry Pastels, 1979-80
Installation view, Pondicherry Pastels, 1979-80 Installation view, Pondicherry Pastels, 1979-80

Installation view

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
All artwork © the artists

Stephanie, 2003 Jaunty & Mame, 1997
Dressmaker, 1995 Girl in Bed, 1994
the castle great staircase, Scotland, 2007 The Major Lieutenant, 2007

  • Palladium Martin, 1999
  • Eminem - Vanity Fair, 2002
  • Harry, 1995

Installation view

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
All artwork © the artists

  • Napoleon (After Louis David, Le General Bonaparte vers 1797), 2005
  • Princes William and Harry, 1999
  • Alizarian Kurt, 1995
  • Klose, Podolski, and Frings (German Team Stretching), July 8, 2006, 2006-07
  • Little Em (Eminem), 2002

Installation view

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
All artwork © the artists

  • Angel Blake Our Leader, Blood on Satan's Claw MCMLXX, 1996
  • Little Red Riding Hood Vampire, 2001
  • Tony on Daniel's Bed, 1999

Installation view, John Currin, Nice 'N Easy, 1999 / Shiro Kuramata, Miss Blanche, 1988

(Currin)
Oil on canvas
44 x 34 inches
Copyright the artist, Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.
(Kuramata)
Acrylic, epoxy coated aluminum, and artificial roses
Photography: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.

Installation view, Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog, 1994 - 2000

Photography: Tom Powel Imaging
©Jeff Koons