Beate Wheeler The 1970s: Transition to Color Painting
David Richard Gallery
May. 18, 2024 - Jul. 17, 2020
211 East 121st Street
New York, 10035
PHONE 212-882-1705
David Richard Gallery is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of paintings by Beate Wheeler (1932 – 2017). The presentation includes 13 paintings that focus on her studio work leading up to and through the 1970s, an important and transitional decade in her career. The presentation chronicles a shift in her formal approach that had been brewing back in the 1960s, as well as a change in her color palettes and compositions that became more evocative of nature and gardens. During the 70s, Wheeler transitioned from her Abstract Expressionist “mark making” to more vibrant “color painting”, which defined the remainder of her studio practice.