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James Barron is a private art dealer specializing in modern and contemporary American and European art, dividing his time between Rome, Italy and Kent, CT.

James Barron founded his art business in 1987 as a private art dealer and consultant, and established James Barron Art in 2010. He specializes in modern and contemporary American and European art. Trained as an art historian at Brown University, Barron is known for his refined vision and ability to juxtapose works in unexpected combinations. He exhibits regularly at art fairs including The Armory

Show – Modern and Art Miami. His exhibitions “Homage to Kermit Champa,” with an essay by Karen Wilkin, and “American and Italian Art 1975 – 2011,” with an essay by Cornelia Lauf and an interview with Yoshi Nakama, garnered much praise. James Barron divides his time between Rome, Italy, and Kent, CT. He worked at Knoedler Gallery with post-War and Contemporary American art and at Jan Krugier Gallery, with the Marina Picasso Collection and Modern masterworks. He has sold Modern works by Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti and Pollock, as well as Contemporary art by Warhol, Diebenkorn, LeWitt, Mangold and Olitski. Barron is equally adept in guiding both new and experienced collectors.

06/22/2023

"The Bedford Columns form what I would call a 'spiritual circle.' They look like they came out of each other. They fill the space with silence."
Beverly Pepper

to our exhibition "Beverly Pepper: Spiritual Circle," which was our first show in our current gallery space in 2019. Spiritual Circle highlighted Pepper's longterm engagement with totemic sculpture, a form she returned to throughout her career, in both indoor works like the Messengers and large scale outdoor sculptures like the Bedford Columns.

"When I stood them up they were very silent. They had a kind of space around them I couldn't understand. It surprised me. I could feel it. A mystical space that develops between the viewer and the work."
Beverly Pepper

Spiritual Circle also included several works on paper and paintings, in addition to two rare early sculptures from the 1960s. Our exhibition coincided with the opening of the Beverly Pepper Sculpture Park in Todi, Italy, pictured in slide 8.

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06/19/2023

In recognition of Juneteeth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War, we are looking back our 2021 exhibition "Direct Action: Homage to Martin Luther King Jr."

In his eminent 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, "You may ask: 'Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches, and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?' You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action… to foster such a tension that a community… is forced to confront the issue. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent register may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word 'tension.' … There is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth."

Our exhibition highlighted a 2007 portfolio and book by Faith Ringgold, which illustrates Dr. King’s letter with scenes of protests, segregation, and racial injustice alongside daily tableaux. The show included works created contemporaneously with the Civil Rights movement, as well as contemporary works that embrace the spirit of alternative action.

Works by:

Charles Alston
Romare Bearden
Beauford Delaney
Awol Erizku
vanessa german
Sam Gilliam
Lonnie Holley
Clementine Hunter
Norman Lewis
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Zanele Muholi
Faith Ringgold
Winfred Rembert
Bob Thompson
Mose Tolliver

06/15/2023

We're excited to see Reza Shafahi highlighted in Vulture this week by ! Saltz's article "A Persia of the Mind and the Loins" in explores the works in Shafahi's exhibition at and his recent monograph "Diary of a Gambler" published by .

In "Diary of a Gambler," explains how he turned to gambling after his career as a professional wrestler in Iran. When his gambling addiction and debts became a threat to his family, his son, the artist , encouraged him to start making art, which he credits with turning his life around. Shafahi now works in an immediately recognizable, surreal style that pays homage to ancient Persian culture.

We have been showing Shafahi's work since the 2020 , and continue to exhibit his work at fairs around the country. Shafahi's work is currently included in our group exhibition "Poetry for the Underdog."

"Now my game is built on joy. If I had not picked up painting, I’m not sure I could stand myself."
Reza Shafahi

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06/12/2023

Congratulations to Enzo Cucchi on his exhibition at Museo MAXXI in Rome 🔥 Curated by Luigia Lonardelli and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, "The Poet and Musician" includes more than 200 works spanning a wide variety of media, including "paintings that are also sculptures, sculptures that continue in their foundations, drawings as books, [and] works and images that float in the exhibition space." The exhibition includes many recent works by the artist set in relation to works produced in the late 1970s, with no delineation between different periods of his work, creating what the curators have described as "as a path through [Cucchi's] poetic universe."

Slide 2: Portrait of Enzo Cucchi © Jeannette Montgomery Barron, 1986

We included an Untitled 2008 painting (slide 3) by Enzo Cucchi in our 2020 exhibition "The Italians" alongside works by other Italian artists, including , , , , and .

$"My work is about refracted light, low water and the horizon line. There is a very old technique, incalmo, which is the ...$

06/08/2023

"My work is about refracted light, low water and the horizon line. There is a very old technique, incalmo, which is the joining of two pieces... You get an ellipse, or it doubles up, or the rim is folded inside and you get double color. All these things you only see because you are bringing the two walls together."
Laura de Santillana

Happy World Ocean Day! 🌊 Today we are looking at a number of works depicting or inspired by oceans around the world 🌏 Swipe through the carousel for a look at paintings and sculptures by Elisabetta Zangrandi (slide 1), Sidival Fila (2), Alexis Rockman (3), Mike Ousley (4) Vera Girivi (5), Laura de Santillana (6-7), Moira Dryer (7-8), and Reza Shafahi (9).

06/06/2023

"[The scratch cards] were all over the ground. As we continued picking them up, we realized they were beautiful objects, because they each had someone’s signature. Everyone scratches them in a different way. Once you have amassed a collection, you start to recognize the same person's ephemera."
Adam Eckstrom, Ghost of a Dream

Currently on view — Ghost of a Dream: without a king, everybody wants some heaven 🎰💰🏆 Ghost of a Dream is a collaborative artist duo (Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom) whose work centers on the ephemera of people's hopes and dreams. Our exhibition reconceptualizes collages made from discarded lottery tickets, which they created for the oratorio of Santa Maria Della Vita in Bologna.

Slides 1 and 2: 's installation in Santa Maria Della Vita, 2011.

06/02/2023

Join Jeannette Montgomery Barron tomorrow at the Kent House of Books from 6 to 8pm! 📚📷

will be signing copies of her new book JMB (published by ). JMB brings together Montgomery Barron complete sittings with Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1984 and 1985, with an introduction by Francesco Clemente and an afterword by James Barron . JMB features 24 large format images and six contact sheets over 64 pages, encased in a teal blue hardback cover with ebony de-bossed JMB foiled titles.

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05/31/2023

“My spaces and my floors that twist and turn are always in motion, even if the women are still. These spaces have a beating heart and a mind that works and thinks.”
Vera Girivi

Our current group exhibition "Poetry for the Underdog" highlights works by mostly self-trained artists, with paintings and works on paper by Sidival Fila, Vera Girivi, Elisabetta Maestro, Mike Ousley, Reza Shafahi, Ashley Shapiro, Janet Sobel, and Elisabetta Zangrandi.

Today we are looking a recent large-scale work by Vera Girivi, a painter living and working in Genoa, Italy. Girivi is known for her honest and emotional portrayals of women moving through life in a wide variety of invented spaces. We have been showing Girivi's work since 2019, first at the , followed by group and solo exhibitions at our gallery and in art fairs including the Art Show , the , and in Palm Springs and Aspen!

Swipe through for a look at other recent works by .

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