The Armory Show
Javits Center 655 W 34th Street
Booth 202
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Our presentation at The Armory Show 2026 explores the artists of Canada and the United States who engaged in an increasingly fluid exchange of ideas, practices, and influences in the Post-War era. Shared visions rooted in what the future of art-making could be, this exhibition offers a portrait of two nations in rich artistic dialogue.
Examples include the work of Rita Letendre and Larry Bell. The former, broke away from the machismo of abstract expressionism in favour of airbrushed horizons upon visiting Los Angeles and experiencing the work of the California Light and Space movement, of which Bell was a pioneer. Other Canadian Post-War icons such as Jack Bush, William Perehudoff, Roy Kiyooka, and Dorothy Knowles extensively worked alongside fellow Americans such as Barnet Newman, Kenneth Noland and Friedel Dzubas at the Emma Lake Workshops, organized by the University of Saskatchewan. Canadian and American artists also made direct collaborations in a trailblazing fashion. Although born in Toronto, Miriam Schapiro lived much of her life in the US. Collaborating with Illinois-native, Judy Chicago, on the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts in 1971, the duo created Womanhouse in 1972, often regarded as the first public exhibition of art centered upon female empowerment. Both went on to become symbols of the Feminist Art Movement at large. The presentation concludes with several works by Canadian painter John Graham Coughtry. All of which were first selected by the National Gallery of Canada to be exhibited at the Bienal de São Paulo of 1959 before ultimately being donated to the Smithsonian as part of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection.
Examples include the work of Rita Letendre and Larry Bell. The former, broke away from the machismo of abstract expressionism in favour of airbrushed horizons upon visiting Los Angeles and experiencing the work of the California Light and Space movement, of which Bell was a pioneer. Other Canadian Post-War icons such as Jack Bush, William Perehudoff, Roy Kiyooka, and Dorothy Knowles extensively worked alongside fellow Americans such as Barnet Newman, Kenneth Noland and Friedel Dzubas at the Emma Lake Workshops, organized by the University of Saskatchewan. Canadian and American artists also made direct collaborations in a trailblazing fashion. Although born in Toronto, Miriam Schapiro lived much of her life in the US. Collaborating with Illinois-native, Judy Chicago, on the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts in 1971, the duo created Womanhouse in 1972, often regarded as the first public exhibition of art centered upon female empowerment. Both went on to become symbols of the Feminist Art Movement at large. The presentation concludes with several works by Canadian painter John Graham Coughtry. All of which were first selected by the National Gallery of Canada to be exhibited at the Bienal de São Paulo of 1959 before ultimately being donated to the Smithsonian as part of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection.
