Barbara Braathen is an American art dealer, gallerist and curator. She owned galleries of contemporary art in New York from 1980 to 2005.[1][2][3][4][5]

Barbara Braathen
Born
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Art Dealer, Gallerist, Curator
Known forContemporary Art

Biography

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From 1980 to 1983, Barbara Braathen operated Braathen-Gallozzi Fine Art in New York City with Guillaume Gallozzi.[6] [7] This became the Barbara Braathen Gallery, which was active in Lower Manhattan until 1998.[8][4] From 2000 to 2005, she owned River Gallery in upstate New York.[9][10]

Braathen's exhibition program encompasses an eclectic mix of contemporary art. This includes urban artist Rammellzee,[11][12] French language artist Guy de Cointet, [7] spiritual expressionist Hunt Slonem,[13] debris and found object sculptor Donald Lipski,[14] surrealist poet Charles Henri Ford,[15] actor-artist Fred Gwynne, and Mexican-American painter Raul Guerrero.[16][17][18][19][6][20][21]

A highlight for Braathen was the Surrealismo exhibition in 1986 curated with legendary art dealer,Leo Castelli.[22][23]

Barbara Braathen was born in North Dakota in 1944 and began selling her own paintings by the age of 14. By 1973, she received her PhDc in Modern Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Braathen's special interest is in artists addressing the Spiritual in Art, from Symbolists to Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint to present day creators. [1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "YouTube Barbara Braathen - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  2. ^ "Barbara Braathen – An Aesthete in The Art Industry". www.readersdigest.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  3. ^ "UpperDelaware.com - Visitor Information". www.upperdelaware.com. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  4. ^ a b Kino, Carol (1996-07-01). "Living-Room Galleries 96.07". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  5. ^ "Governance". spring-river. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  6. ^ a b "Carrie Rickey on Jamie Dalglish". www.artforum.com. 10 February 1981. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  7. ^ a b Solte, Franziska (2020-07-01). "Guy de Cointet: The Theatricality of the Code". Signata. Annales des sémiotiques / Annals of Semiotics (11). doi:10.4000/signata.2687. ISSN 2032-9806. S2CID 225614562.
  8. ^ "Barbara Braathen Gallery". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
  9. ^ Staff Writer. "Local painter explores luminous frontier". Times Herald-Record. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  10. ^ "SERENDIPITY STRIKES WITH OXFORD GUIDE". artnet.com. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  11. ^ Mitter, Siddhartha (2018-06-21). "How Rammellzee Turned Graffiti Into Urban Mythology". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
  12. ^ "Rammellzee: Racing for Thunder".
  13. ^ "Solo - Hunt Slonem". www.huntslonem.com. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  14. ^ "Passing Time". Donald Lipski. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  15. ^ "BOMB Magazine | Charles Henri Ford". BOMB Magazine. 1987-01-01. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  16. ^ "Raul Guerrero". CUE Art Foundation. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  17. ^ "Carlo McCormick on Rammellzee". www.artforum.com. 9 February 1987. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  18. ^ "Art in America: John Wells at Barbara Braathen - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions". 2005-05-23. Archived from the original on 2005-05-23. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  19. ^ "Kirby Gookin on Peter Grass". www.artforum.com. 8 October 1988. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  20. ^ "Carlo McCormick on Fred Gwyne". www.artforum.com. 8 September 1989. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  21. ^ "Jon Ash on John Wells". www.artforum.com. 3 November 1994. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  22. ^ "Barbara Braathen - Specific Object".
  23. ^ "Barbara Kruger". artnet.com. Retrieved 2022-08-03.