ACA Galleries' Exhibition of 'James McGarrell: Window Jazz Inventions, Paintings 2005 - 2009' Runs Thru 1/30

ACA Galleries is pleased to announce its first exhibition of paintings by James McGarrell running through January 30.

Known since the 1960s for his complex, figurative canvases McGarrell has moved in a new direction informed by Indian classical ragamala and twentieth century jazz. For him this means an immersion in "the painting in the painting." As McGarrell explains, "it parallels the way a Lester Young improvisation might quote, riff on or entirely depart from the melody."

His work has been included in five Whitney Museum Annuals and Biennials, two Carnegie International Exhibitions, Documenta in Kassel, Germany and the American Pavilion of the 1968 Venice Biennale. His works are in the Permanent Collections of The Metropolitan Museum, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Chicago Art Institute, IL; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Saint Louis Art Museum, MO; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA; Hamburg Museum, Germany; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA.

He has been the recipient of both a Guggenheim and a Rockefeller Institute Bellagio Fellowship. In 1995 he received the Jimmy Ernst Award for lifetime achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2008 the New York Community Trust awarded him The Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Prize in visual arts.

He has taught at Reed College, Skowhegan, Indiana University and Washington University in St. Louis. He was Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College in 1993. ACA is now the exclusive representative of James McGarrell.

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Abstract Ensemble: A group exhibition of abstract art by Richard Anuszkiewicz, Romare Bearden, Leon Berkowitz, Ilya Bolotowsky, Judy Chicago, Alan Davie, Grace Hartigan, Carl Holty, Faith Ringgold, Ludwig Sander, Rolph Scarlett and Theodoros Stamos will be on view in Gallery II.

The ACA Galleries are located at 529 West 20th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY.  For more information, please visit http://www.acagalleries.com/