Duane Thomas Gallery

06/19/2026

Benedikt Gahl N***s Raus (German for N***s Out) is included in our current Summer Show “An Affair to Remember”

06/19/2026

An Affair to Remember
Spanning five decades, An Affair to Remember brings together works by Cynthia Carlson, Eunice Golden, Benedikt Gahl, Jenny Kemp, and Barbara Zucker.
Across painting, drawing, and works on paper, the exhibition traces intersections of memory, politics, desire, and the body—revealing how personal histories and collective narratives continue to shape one another.
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06/16/2026

Duane Thomas Gallery is happy to announce “An Affair To Remember,” its annual Summer group exhibition opening this Thursday Jun 18th. With works by:
Cynthia Carlson Cynthia Carlson
Jenny Kemp Jenny Kemp
Benedikt Gahl b.g.a.h.l
Shirley Pettibone Shirley Pettibone
Barbara Zucker Barbara M Zucker
Pictured: Cynthia Carlson, Untitled Unmonument, 1971, 45 x 59 1/2, oil on canvas.

06/09/2026

Anatomy of an artwork. Eunice Golden (American born 1927) Yellow Sky, oil on canvas 1968

06/08/2026

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

05/11/2026

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Our two upcoming solo shows of Shirley Pettibone and Eunice Golden open May 15th with a reception 6/8pm

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

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