Lenore Tawney’s Dark River, on view for the first time at MoMA.

The artist’s former sail-making loft on the East River in downtown Manhattan inspired this magisterial work. Part of a collection exhibition called The Artist of Coenties Slip, currently on view at MoMA, it looks at a brief period when a group of artists lived and worked on Coenties Slip, far downtown by the waterfront in […]

Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: A Remarkable Friendship presented by Alison Jacques Gallery, London, November 15 – January 11, 2025

Alison Jacques presents ‘Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: A Remarkable Friendship’, a two-person exhibition dedicated to the work and lifelong friendship of Lenore Tawney (b.1907, Ohio; d.2007, New York) and Toshiko Takaezu (b.1922, Hawaii; d.2011, Hawaii). This is the first exhibition of Toshiko Takaezu’s work in the UK; Tawney has been represented and exhibited by Alison Jacques in London since 2017. Through showing the work of both artists together, in testament to their 50 year enduring friendship, this exhibition emphasizes how both artists, as pioneers and innovators, made their work in an ongoing spiritual quest to express an intangible truth.

Correspondence Art: Postcards by Lenore Tawney at The Art Institute of Chicago

Tawney began creating postcard collages in the ’60s while she was moving between studios and traveling internationally. Though she left Chicago, the artist maintained a longstanding friendship with Katherine Kuh, who was the first woman curator of European art and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. The two exchanged mail art over the course […]

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Lenore Tawney’s Dark River, on view for the first time at MoMA.

Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: A Remarkable Friendship presented by Alison Jacques Gallery, London, November 15 – January 11, 2025

Lenore Tawney: Time Trembling presented by Alison Jacques Gallery at the Independent 20th Century, New York, September 6-8, 2024

Correspondence Art: Postcards by Lenore Tawney at The Art Institute of Chicago