Nicole Klagsbrun

About the Gallery
For more than 40 years, Nicole Klagsbrun has worked closely with leading artists and estates to organize exhibitions at the forefront of contemporary art. Klagsbrun and Clarissa Dalrymple opened Cable Gallery in 1984, which became renowned for showing young artists across diverse backgrounds and disciplines. This included introducing the work of Ashley Bickerton, Christopher Wool, Barbara Ess, and Haim Steinbach. In 1989, Klagsbrun opened Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery at 59 Greene Street in SoHo, NY. The program continued to represent artists working in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, video, photography, installation, and assemblage. Klagsbrun organized Karen Kilimnik’s first exhibition in New York (1989), Candida Höfer’s first exhibition in the United States (1991), Bas Jan Ader’s first exhibition in New York (1994), Mika Rottenberg’s first solo show in New York (2006), and Rashid Johnson’s first gallery exhibition (2008), among many others. In addition, Klagsbrun is dedicated to exhibiting artists whose practices have been under-recognized in the New York art world, such as Wallace Berman, Jay DeFeo, John Giorno, and Cameron.

About the Presentation
Nicole Klagsbrun will present work by Jonathan Silver and Herbert Matter in a duo presentation at Independent 20th Century. This presentation features a collection of sculptures and drawings by Jonathan Silver, a New York-based sculptor and art historian, alongside Herbert Matter’s striking photographs of Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures. Silver was an artist who stayed true to the clarity of his vision, a steadfastness he likely gleaned from Giacometti, the subject of Silver’s Ph.D. research at Columbia University and a formative influence on his practice. Throughout his career, Silver remained fascinated with Giacometti’s attentiveness to frontality and to the distressed psychological tension he imbued in his figures’ faces, and committed himself entirely to developing sculpture that would hold within it the drama of personal and historical experience.