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A holiday photo by Cynthia Zarin of a canal in Venice.

Cynthia Zarin

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To Venice and Rome

A photo by Jason Schmidt of the artist Carol Bove in her studio.

Studio: Carol Bove

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Dive into the artist's process

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With physical galleries and museums temporarily closed during these uncertain times, the art community has increasingly turned to digital spaces to share the work of artists, and to engage passionate audiences all over the world.

We are proud to host 

, a new online initiative that brings together twelve New York–based galleries—our friends, neighbors, and peers—to present available works from a single artist on their rosters.

Browse available works from twelve galleries

Platform: New York

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“I decided to peel apart the layers of the three-color processes that determine how our eyes—and all photographic media—register color. My aim was to show seeing.”

James Welling has spent more than a decade deconstructing—and reconstructing—color. His body of work acts as an evolving, dynamic archive that reconsiders the history and technical capacity of the photographic medium.

The artist carefully creates multi-layered images of subjects including contemporary dance, landscape, and architecture to explore trichromatic vision—the psychological perception of color through red, green, or blue sensors in the eye.

Continuing to investigate color phenomena in his multi-channel inkjet prints, Welling has adapted Goethe’s suggestive concept of “pathological color.”

He worked with the gallery to create this online exhibition on the occasion of his solo presentation at ADAA: The Art Show. The works presented here bring together a selection that expands on the series on view at the fair.

James Welling: Pathological Color

Online Viewing Room

With physical exhibition spaces closed to the public, auction houses inactive, and art fairs canceled, 

 is pleased to debut two new digital products—

—for museums and collectors to discover, buy, and sell primary- and secondary-market artworks.

“For years, David Zwirner Gallery has been a regular at more than 20 art fairs around the globe—that is, until the current global health situation put these events, and nearly everything else in the art world, on lockdown. Now, the gallery is developing a new program to promote artworks that it might otherwise show at fairs on its own website.

As part of its ongoing efforts to beef up its digital offerings, the gallery is rolling out two initiatives in the middle of April. The first, called 

, will showcase a rotating presentation of one to three brand-new works by artists the gallery represents.

The second initiative, 

, focuses on the secondary market. Designed to present one major work at a time, it will kick off with a Josef Albers “Homage to the Square” painting from 1959, consigned from the collection of Theodore and Barbara Dreier, the founders of the legendary Black Mountain College, where Albers taught.

, which will be accessible to anyone who agrees to submit their email address, 

 will exclusively be available to existing gallery clients on an invitation-only basis. Prices will also only be relayed upon request.

Both initiatives in large part aim to make up for the fact that the lockdown era has interrupted a critical part of the art-market supply chain. Under normal circumstances, one-off or small groups of works that do not comprise a full exhibition would be showcased at an art fair. And even though the art industry’s traveling circus has been put on pause, artists are still creating work—in fact, some more than ever, as they are cloistered at home and in their studios—and consignors are still looking for places to sell high-priced works (particularly since most of the major auction houses have delayed their marquee spring sales to June).’’

Image: Carol Bove, 2019. Photo by Jason Schmidt

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