May 3 — September 14, 2014
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Keith Haring. The show includes canvases and tarps painted in the 1980s, which feature the iconic imagery and motifs that Haring developed earlier in that decade. Having first gained recognition for his public work, much of which was done subversively in the New York City subway system, Haring continued throughout his career to develop a populist aesthetic. The works on view are characteristic of Haring’s artistic practice, featuring a bold, bright color palette, exuberant figures, and a thoughtful use of unconventional materials.
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About
Keith Haring Self-portrait wearing glasses painted by Kenny Scharf, Polaroid, circa 1980.
© Keith Haring Foundation.
Keith Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania and died at the age of thirty-one of AIDS-related illnesses in New York City in 1990. Since his death, his work has been the subject of major institutional solo exhibitions around the world, including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Broad, Los Angeles; Tate Liverpool; the Albertina Museum, Vienna; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Kunsthal Rotterdam. In 1994, the Castello di Rivoli hosted a major solo exhibition of Haring’s work, and in 1997, the Whitney Museum of American Art staged a retrospective of Haring’s work that traveled internationally. In 2012, “Keith Haring: 1978-1982”, co-organized in 2010 by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, traveled to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Haring’s work is in major private and public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Bass Museum, Miami; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
