Addison Rowe Gallery

About the Gallery
Located just a few blocks off the Santa Fe Plaza, Addison Rowe Gallery has been family-owned and operated for over 40 years. The best art gallery for artworks of American Modernism, Transcendental Painting Group, the Taos Society of Artists, the Taos Moderns, Los Cinco Pintores, and Southwest Moderns, Addison Rowe Gallery specializes in original paintings, abstract art and sculptures by historically significant American artists.

Gallery Owner and Director Victoria Addison is a member of the Appraisers Association of America who specializes in paintings, sculptures, and watercolor artwork of the 19th and 20th Century, with an emphasis on Modern and Southwestern art. She has managed numerous modern art estates throughout her career, including Lawrence Calcago, Raymond Jonson, Louis Catusco, and more.

Victoria Addison has over 30 years of active experience in the art business. She began as a private art dealer in New York City and then went on to partner in an art gallery in Chicago’s River North Area. For the last two decades, she has focused on the artists of the Santa Fe and Taos regions; their artworks are offered at Addison Rowe Gallery.

About the Presentation
Addison Rowe Gallery will present an in-depth exhibition showcasing the chronology of work by one of the founders of the Transcendental Painting Group, Raymond Jonson. Addison Rowe Gallery has been the exclusive representative of the Raymond Jonson estate for the last 12 years and has a long history of promoting his work. Raymond Jonson was a true American modernist and a key figure in New Mexico. His work helped usher in a new form of expression combining spirituality and dynamic colorations in abstract compositions. They were a radical shift in the art movement of the period.

His work moved from traditional landscapes to modernist compositions, until he settled on pure geometric abstraction. In his early works he used detailed compositions in oil with noticeable paintbrush markings. Over time, the brushstrokes disappeared and the surface became flattened with the introduction of the airbrush technique. Known for his innovative use of airbrush in watercolor and acrylic, Jonson’s signature style evoked light, not as a subject, but as a spiritual essence emanating from the canvas. Jonson created pure geomatic abstractions with a luminous effect which are inspirational and unique.

Deeply influenced by his spiritual upbringing, Jonson sought to transcend physical reality, aligning with the Transcendental Painting Group’s vision of exploring idealistic and spiritual realms through art — looking beyond the superficial veils of reality into how things are in-and-of themselves. The Transcendental Painting Group was united in their belief of what art and paintings should represent. The gist of their manifesto was “to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world through new concepts of space, color, light, and design, to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual.”