Duane Thomas Gallery

Duane Thomas Gallery Duane Thomas Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Tribeca, New York

Opening tonight May 15th with a reception 6/8pm our dual solo exhibitions of Eunice Golden and Shirley Pettibone.Eunice ...
05/15/2026

Opening tonight May 15th with a reception 6/8pm our dual solo exhibitions of Eunice Golden and Shirley Pettibone.
Eunice Golden: Works 1970–1973 and Shirley Pettibone: Cloth Objects 1969–1973. Installed as distinct but dialoguing presentations, these exhibitions bring together two artists who, working independently during the late 1960s and early 1970s, developed deeply personal and materially innovative approaches to the body, abstraction, and feminist expression.

05/13/2026

Shirley Pettibone: Cloth Objects opens this Friday in Tribeca with a reception 6:8pm. Started as a series in the late 60’s these inventive and playful works blur the lines between sculpture and painting. artist

Thank you for including our show in the shows to see during Frieze New York week. .artist Our two upcoming solo shows o...
05/11/2026

Thank you for including our show in the shows to see during Frieze New York week. .artist
Our two upcoming solo shows of Shirley Pettibone and Eunice Golden open May 15th with a reception 6/8pm

Shirley Pettibone: Cloth Objects 1968–1973 will open on May 15th with a reception 6/8pm. The show presents a focused se...
05/08/2026

Shirley Pettibone: Cloth Objects 1968–1973 will open on May 15th with a reception 6/8pm. The show presents a focused selection of the artist’s soft sculptural works, developed through her experimentation with stained, cut, and sewn fabric. These “Cloth Objects,” formed from painted muslin and stuffed with batting, occupy a space between painting and sculpture. Neither fully flat nor fully dimensional, they translate painterly gesture into bodily form.

As described in Pettibone’s own reflections, these works emerged from a desire to move beyond the limitations of traditional painting, incorporating physical substance while retaining a sense of ambiguity and poetic suggestion. The resulting forms—tubular, knotted, or suspended—evoke bodily associations without resolving into explicit representation. They suggest skin, organs, or organic growths, while also maintaining a formal rigor aligned with the conceptual concerns of the period.

Pettibone’s use of sewing and fabric introduces a material language historically coded as feminine, transforming it into a structural and conceptual device. The works engage with contemporaneous movements such as “Eccentric Abstraction” and “Soft Sculpture,” yet remain distinct in their synthesis of intimacy, process, and restraint. Despite their innovation, these works were created within a context in which women artists were often marginalized, their contributions overlooked in favor of their male counterparts.artist

Eunice Golden: Works 1970–1974 opens May 15th with a reception 6/8pm in Tribeca. The show focuses on a selection of wor...
05/08/2026

Eunice Golden: Works 1970–1974 opens May 15th with a reception 6/8pm in Tribeca. The show focuses on a selection of works on canvas produced during a pivotal moment in the artist’s early career. Executed in graphite and acrylic, these works explore fragmented, eroticized, and often monumentalized representations of the male body. Golden’s works resist both classical figuration and purely abstract form, instead occupying a charged space between the two. Limbs, torsos, and suggestive anatomical forms emerge and dissolve across the surface, destabilizing conventional hierarchies of looking and desire.

At a time when depictions of the male n**e by women artists were rare, Golden’s work assert a reversal of the traditional gaze. The works are at once intimate and confrontational, combining a meticulous attention to surface with an unapologetic engagement with sexuality. Rather than presenting the body as fixed or idealized, Golden renders it unstable—cropped, enlarged, and psychologically loaded—anticipating later developments in feminist art while remaining largely unrecognized within its dominant narratives.
Pictured: Eunice Golden, Diagram #5, 1970. Acrylic on canvas

Thank you to the editors of for tagging the upcoming exhibition of Shirley Pettibone’s cloth objects as a Must See.The ...
05/01/2026

Thank you to the editors of for tagging the upcoming exhibition of Shirley Pettibone’s cloth objects as a Must See.
The show opens in Tribeca on May 15th with a reception 6/8pmartist

04/02/2026

Barbara Zucker has spent decades making space for what history has refused to hold.

A founding member of A.I.R. Gallery—the first women’s cooperative gallery in the United States—her work has always insisted on visibility, on presence, on voice.

The Second Oldest Profession turns to the figure of the wet nurse: a woman whose body sustained life, yet was tested, regulated, and rarely remembered.

This exhibition gathers what was scattered—
care as labor,
the body as archive,
memory as resistance.

Duane Thomas Gallery

Until April 19th 2026

03/29/2026

Cynthia Carlson .j.carlson has spent over six decades expanding the language of painting. Emerging in the late 1960s and 1970s, she became a central figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, developing a practice grounded in repetition, surface, and structure.

Her early experiments—cutting, weaving, and building up the canvas—redefined painting as both image and object. From these works emerged her signature environments: immersive, hand-painted installations in which pattern extends across walls, dissolving the boundary between painting and space.

Carlson’s work challenged the hierarchies that long separated “fine art” from decoration—hierarchies often aligned with the marginalization of the feminine. In insisting on ornament, accumulation, and surface as sites of meaning, she helped reposition these forms at the center of contemporary painting.

Her work is held in major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, among others, and she continues to live and work in New York.

In celebration of Women History month, and artist Barbara Zucker whose show is extended until April 19th, this photogra...
03/27/2026

In celebration of Women History month, and artist Barbara Zucker whose show is extended until April 19th, this photograph of the founding members of AIR gallery, one of the first all Women run art organization in the country.
A.I.R Gallery founding members in Daria Dorosh’s loft, 370 Broadway, 1974
Pictured from left to right, bottom to top: Howardena Pindell, Daria Dorosh, Maude Boltz, Rosemary Mayer, Mary Grigoriadis, Agnes Denes, Louise Kramer, Loretta Dunkelman, Barbara Zucker, Patsy Norvell, Sari Dienes, Judith Bernstein, Laurace James, Nancy Spero, Pat Lasch, Anne Healy, Dotty Attie.

Photo credit: David Attie

Duane Thomas Gallery loves and shows artists from Iran. Artists from Iran have long carried the weight of history, cens...
03/12/2026

Duane Thomas Gallery loves and shows artists from Iran. Artists from Iran have long carried the weight of history, censorship, and sometimes displacement, yet their work continues to speak with clarity, humanity, and courage and shows that art matters, in particular in this time. We stand with them, hoping for their safety and peace.

Pictured: Morteza Khakshoor, The Vulture, oil on canvas
Habib Farajabadi, the artist in his studio in Teheran.
Habib Farajabadi, works in our solo show of the artist 2022.

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