Gavlak Gallery

Gavlak Gallery GAVLAK is a contemporary art gallery with locations in Los Angeles, California and Palm Beach, Florida.

Founded by Sarah Gavlak in 2005, the gallery represents over twenty artists both nationally and internationally based.

📣 Our current exhubition, ‘Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, features a multigenerational group of pioneerin...
03/27/2025

📣 Our current exhubition, ‘Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, features a multigenerational group of pioneering female artists who have each made a significant impact on the world of Abstract Expressionism.

While often overshadowed by their male counterparts, artists such as Elaine De Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jay DeFeo and Pat Passlof redefined artistic expression through gestural brushwork, emotional intensity, and radical experimentation with color and form.

In addition to showcasing historical works, this exhibition highlights contemporary artists influenced by these pioneers, demonstrating how Abstract Expressionism continues to inspire new generations. The exhibition features large-scale canvases, sculpture, immersive installations, and multimedia works that reimagine the expressive potential of abstraction in today’s context.

📣 Our current exhibition, ‘Women In Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, brings together the work of pioneering female a...
03/18/2025

📣 Our current exhibition, ‘Women In Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, brings together the work of pioneering female artists who have each made a significant impact on the world of Abstraction Expressionism, whose bold innovations helped shape modern art.

Some highlights include ’s geometric abstractions; ’s unique use of wooden beads; ’ mesh sculptures; and ’s shaped paintings, among others.
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✨ Featured in ‘Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, is Jay DeFeo’s ‘Untitled (Eternal Triangle Series)’ (1980),...
03/17/2025

✨ Featured in ‘Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, is Jay DeFeo’s ‘Untitled (Eternal Triangle Series)’ (1980), which exemplifies her ability to transcend boundaries between abstraction and the physical world. This acrylic on paper piece, a study in form and color, speaks to DeFeo’s distinctive vision of art as both personal and metaphysical.

“There’s an element of risk in everything I do... somehow I’m not satisfied unless I’ve lived a little dangerously and survived.” — Jay DeFeo

At the outset of her career in the 1950s, DeFeo was at the center of a vibrant community of Beat artists, poets, and musicians in San Francisco. Although she is best known for her monumental painting The Rose (1958–66, now in the ’s collection), which she spent eight years making and which later languished hidden behind a wall for two decades, DeFeo created an astoundingly diverse range of works spanning four decades. Her unconventional approach to materials and intensive, physical process make DeFeo a unique figure in postwar American art who defies easy categorization.

📣 Thank you and for featuring ‘Living with Art and Design: A Collaborative Presentation by Robert Stilin () and Sarah ...
03/13/2025

📣 Thank you and for featuring ‘Living with Art and Design: A Collaborative Presentation by Robert Stilin () and Sarah Gavlak ()’ in the magazine.

This exhibition is a celebration of friendship, creative synergy, and the art of living well—where contemporary artworks from ’s visionary artists seamlessly merge with Robert Stilin’s curated selection of furniture and design objects.

Set in the historic home of sculptor Ann Norton in West Palm Beach(), the presentation transforms the space into an immersive environment that reflects our shared belief: art and design should not only be seen, but truly lived with.

On view through March 16.

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📣 Now open: ‘Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, a multigenerational group exhibition bringing together the wo...
03/13/2025

📣 Now open: ‘Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, a multigenerational group exhibition bringing together the work of pioneering female artists who have each made a significant impact on the world of Abstract Expressionism.

While often overshadowed by their male counterparts, artists such as Elaine De Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jay DeFeo and Pat Passlof redefined artistic expression through gestural brushwork, emotional intensity, and radical experimentation with color and form.

In addition to showcasing historical works, this exhibition highlights contemporary artists influenced by these pioneers, demonstrating how Abstract Expressionism continues to inspire new generations. The exhibition features large-scale canvases, sculpture, immersive installations, and multimedia works that reimagine the expressive potential of abstraction in today’s context.

📣 We are pleased to announce our support of The Foundation for AIDS Research () with the donation of the ’s new work, ‘S...
03/12/2025

📣 We are pleased to announce our support of The Foundation for AIDS Research () with the donation of the ’s new work, ‘Self Portrait (as Catherine, Pink)’, 2024, to this year’s fundraising gala in Palm Beach.

‘Self Portrait (as Catherine, Pink)’ depicts Elizabeth Taylor—amfAR’s Founding International Chairman—as Catherine Holly in the 1959 psychosexual drama Suddenly, Last Summer, based on the play by Tennessee Williams. In the film, Catherine is institutionalized by her venomous aunt played by Katharine Hepburn in an attempt to cover up a family secret. Co-starring gay icon Montgomery Clift as a tortured psychiatric surgeon, the film has been canonized by q***r film historians for its high-camp melodrama and veiled references to homosexuality. As the title of Brischler’s Self Portrait series suggests, the artist implicates himself into the narrative of the film, examining his own 21st-century q***r experience through Taylor’s portrayal of Catherine, a character desperate for freedom, agency, and understanding.
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✍🏽 “Jessica Cannon’s paintings balance on the knife’s edge between the tangible and the ineffable.”Thank you, Critic’s C...
03/12/2025

✍🏽 “Jessica Cannon’s paintings balance on the knife’s edge between the tangible and the ineffable.”

Thank you, Critic’s Chronicle (), for the thoughtful review of Eternal Geometries, Cannon’s debut solo exhibition at GAVLAK Palm Beach. Exploring the liminal space between abstraction and representation, Cannon’s work unfolds as a meditation on shifting landscapes, mutable forms, and the perpetual motion of the world.

📣 Join us today as we celebrate with the opening reception of ‘Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, a multige...
03/08/2025

📣 Join us today as we celebrate with the opening reception of ‘Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism’, a multigenerational group exhibition bringing together the work of pioneering female artists who have each made a significant impact on the world of Abstract Expressionism.

Opening reception is from 5-7 PM!

Images:
1. Julia Von Eichel, Muscle Wind, 2022 (detail)
2. Lynda Benglis, Sparkle Baton, 2015
3. Pam Glick, love is a garden, 2023 (detail)
4. Joanna Pousette-Dart, Untitled, 2023
5. Betty Parsons, The Grass and the Wine, 1980 (detail)
6. Nancy Lorenz, Fire Element, 2024
7. Pat Passlof, Pachanga, 1961
8. Field Kallop, Embrace, 2025 (detail)
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📣 Join us tomorrow for the opening reception of “Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism”.Anchoring the exhibition i...
03/07/2025

📣 Join us tomorrow for the opening reception of “Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism”.

Anchoring the exhibition is “Tournament” (1977), a striking example of Helen Frankenthaler’s large-scale Colour Field canvases of the 1970s, in which a stunning mélange of prismatic hues manifest spell-binding and atmospheric abstractions. On the surface of the present work, electric lemon, cobalt and green pigments converge in a state of sheer visual opulence. Frankenthaler’s use of colour in Tournament distinguishes this painting as one of the finest of her richly saturated 1970s output. Executed in 1977, this work demonstrates a shift in Frankenthaler’s technique: at this moment she began using diluted acrylics rather than thinned oil paints, building upon her revolutionary soak-staining method developed in the 1950s and early ‘60s.
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Image 1: Tournament, 1977, acrylic on canvas, 96x72 inches
Image 2: Frankenthaler in her studio, 1960. Photo by Ernst Haas
Image 3: Frankenthaler in her East 83rd Street studio. Photo by Alexander Liberman
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Thank you Family Style () and Meka Boyle () for the thoughtful feature on ‘Living with Art and Design: A Collaborative P...
02/28/2025

Thank you Family Style () and Meka Boyle () for the thoughtful feature on ‘Living with Art and Design: A Collaborative Presentation by Robert Stilin and Sarah Gavlak’! This exhibition is a celebration of friendship, creative synergy, and the art of living well—where contemporary artworks from GAVLAK’s visionary artists seamlessly merge with Robert Stilin’s curated selection of furniture and design objects.

Set in the historic home of sculptor Ann Norton in West Palm Beach, the presentation transforms the space into an immersive environment that reflects our shared belief: art and design should not only be seen, but truly lived with.

On view through March 16—visit the link in bio to learn more!

Jessica Cannon’s new painting, “In Gold and Gravity” (2025), is currently on view in ‘Eternal Geometries’, her debut sol...
02/24/2025

Jessica Cannon’s new painting, “In Gold and Gravity” (2025), is currently on view in ‘Eternal Geometries’, her debut solo exhibition at the gallery! ✨

🔶 Known for her signature semi-abstract compositions, Cannon’s latest work captivates with its sunrise-like color palette, where warm hues of yellow, orange, and ochre evoke the first light of day. The artist’s distinctive pearl underlayer shimmers through, adding a luminous depth that contrasts with the pull of gravity. Through the fluidity of her forms, she continues her exploration of unstable forces, where color and texture dance with the tension between earth and sky.

‘Eternal Geometries’ is on view at GAVLAK West Palm Beach through March 1st!

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