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Bob Chase

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I started this account as a blend between my personal pursuit of art and my gallery’s endeavors in the same arena. Many told me I couldn’t do that; it doesn’t work for the algorithm and it confuses people. But hold on, when was an algorithm ever good for art??!

With that said, I want to share something that happened four years apart but taken together illustrates how an artist can impact meaning based upon where, how, and when their work is delivered. It also speaks to how audiences consume art, can make it their own, and inspire an artist in the process.

In this case I am speaking of Nick Carpenter (aka Medium Build), a musician who delivers explosive performances whether alone with a guitar or backed by his band. I first saw Nick four years ago at a small backyard gathering in East LA. He appeared to be burning in his own skin, alone with his guitar and filled with a raw, emotional tension the likes of which I had rarely seen. It sent chills down my spine, and the experience never left me.

Recently, I saw Nick again at New York’s Webster Hall. He is newly sober, and the tension so bottled up all those years ago was unleashed. Nick delivered a raucous, inspired, and infectious performance. His energy and optimism lifted everyone in the room, and in turn, I believe we lifted him. The performance affected me equally, albeit in a different way. It will stay with me just as the other did - same words, different context. It may not impact the algorithm, but perhaps it will you. Check out the performances side by side (and the final clip is a little insight into his vulnerability, I guess we all care what people think, at least a little). Good job art. And great job Nick, thank you! by @hextongallery

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2 days ago

Art, place, and Aspen.

Our latest journal reflects on Hexton’s beginnings, Aspen’s evolving cultural landscape, and the artists, collectors, and ideas that continue to shape the gallery.

From Aspen’s deep art history to building a community around contemporary art today, the conversation looks at the place we call home and its influence on what we do.

Read the full journal via link in bio.

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#aspen
#aspenart
#contemporaryart taken in Aspen, Colorado by @hextongallery

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4 days ago

October 15 | LUMINOCITY Gala + Art Auction

Join Chanel and Agustina from the Hexton team at MCA Denver’s annual LUMINOCITY Gala + Art Auction, an evening bringing together artists, collectors, philanthropists, civic leaders, and Denver’s creative community in support of the museum’s exhibitions and public programs.

Andy Millner’s "Thrum (Humming-Bird)," 2026, has been donated by the artist and Hexton Gallery to this year’s Gala Art Auction.

October 15 | 6 PM–12 AM
Denver Design District
Denver, Colorado

Learn more and get tickets via link in bio.

@andy.millner
@mca_denver

Andy Millner
"Thrum (Humming-Bird)," 2026
Pigment ink drawing, mulberry paper, linen, and wax thread
30 × 20 in.

Image courtesy of MCA Denver.

#andymillner
#mcadenver
#luminocity
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#contemporaryart taken in MCA Denver by @hextongallery

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6 days ago

Rodrigo Valenzuela is currently featured in "Telenovela," a group exhibition at Americas Society in New York City, curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin. Featuring more than 50 works from the 1970s to the present, "Telenovela" explores the profound cultural, social, and political significance of telenovelas across the Western Hemisphere.

In "Maria TV", Valenzuela hired fifteen domestic workers to learn a script in the style of a telenovela episode and recorded their rehearsals. The resulting video documents the maids practicing their lines and grappling with the challenge of embodying their own livelihood through a fictionalized role. The women are unconvincing actors by design, demonstrating the distance between television and the real people it dramatizes. Valenzuela conceived Maria TV out of his interest in class representation across mass media, particularly how low- and middle-class workers are presented for upper-class consumption. The portrayal of service workers in telenovelas is a notable point of contention. Maids are recurring stereotypes in these shows, used as plot devices or as one-dimensional background characters rather than complex human beings. Despite their closeness to actual events, the melodrama of telenovelas often distorts their connection to the real world. Valenzuela exaggerates this phenomenon in the performance he constructed for Maria TV.

Rodrigo Valenzuela
"Maria TV," 2014
HD video, 17:15 min.

"Telenovela" on view through March 27, 2027
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, New York
Wednesday–Saturday, 11 AM–6 PM

Learn more via link in bio.

@rodrigovalenzuela_studio
@artamericassociety
@aimelukin

Images courtesy of Arturo Sanchez.
Exhibition text courtesy of Americas Society.

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#telenovela
#americassociety
#hextongallery
#contemporaryart
#latinamericanart
#nycart taken in Americas Society by @hextongallery

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11 days ago

Since 2022, Hexton Gallery has partnered with Aspen Street Lodge to bring contemporary art into one of Aspen’s most distinctive residential settings.

Throughout the lodge, a rotating selection of works by Hexton artists is integrated into the interiors, placing contemporary art in conversation with the architecture and surrounding landscape.

The partnership extends beyond the works on view, with Aspen Street Lodge serving as a gathering place for the Hexton community over the years. Pictured here, views of the current installation alongside moments from Hexton’s five-year celebration.

Aspen Street Lodge | @aspenstreetlodge

Hexton artists featured at the lodge:
Marcos Acosta | @marcosacosta.studio
Daniel Arsham | @danielarsham
Scott Avett | @avettar
Richard Carter | @dickcarter46
Maureen Dougherty | @maureen_dougherty_
Michael De Feo | @theflowerguy
Eric Fischl | @fischlstudio
Tony Fitzpatrick | @tonyfitzpatrick9
Nancy Friedland | @nancyfriedland
Rachel Garrard | @rachelgarrard
Evan Hecox | @evanhecox
Andrew Kuo | @andrewkuostudio
Terri Loewenthal | @lowandtall
Liz Markus | @lizmarkusstudio
Zoe McGuire | @zoe_mcguire
Andy Millner | @andy.millner
Liz Nielsen | @liz_nielsen217
Rodrigo Valenzuela | @rodrigovalenzuela_studio

Photos 3, 6 + 7 courtesy of Summit Photo and Film | @summitphotoandfilm

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#aspenstreetlodge
#aspenart
#contemporaryart taken in Aspen Street Lodge by @hextongallery

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13 days ago

I have been an investor in the Uhaul gallery for 27 years, so it was very gratifying to mount an exhibition in the back of a truck this past weekend. Thank you Jack Chase, James Sundquist and your team, you crushed it!

@marcosacosta.studio
@uhaul_gallery

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#marcosacosta
#uhaulartfair
#newyorkart
#contemporaryart taken in New York City by @hextongallery

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16 days ago

Join us in celebrating Larry Poons' 89th birthday today.

Poons’ connection to Aspen spans more than six decades, beginning with his time as an artist-in-residence at the Aspen Institute in 1965. His work remains part of Aspen’s cultural landscape today, including "Pecos" (2005), pictured here as currently installed at The Little Nell in Aspen.

This year, Hexton presented Poons’ work in our last show, "MATERIALITY," continuing a dialogue between his practice and Aspen that began more than 60 years ago.

Happy Birthday, Larry.

@thelittlenell
@larrypoons

Larry Poons
"Pecos," 2005
Acrylic on canvas
68 3/8 × 90 1/2 in
173.7 × 229.9 cm

#larrypoons
#hextongallery
#aspen
#thelittlenell
#painting taken in Aspen, Colorado by @hextongallery

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18 days ago

Final day at U-Haul Art Fair 2026.

Join us in Chelsea for the final day of Hexton Gallery’s presentation of new work by Marcos Acosta.

Sunday, September 27
11 AM–6 PM
West 22nd Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues
Chelsea, New York City

Visit the online viewing room via link in bio.

@marcosacosta.studio
@uhaul_gallery

#marcosacosta
#uhaulartfair
#contemporaryart
#argentineart taken in New York City by @hextongallery

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22 days ago

Hexton Gallery’s presentation of Marcos Acosta at the U-Haul Art Fair is featured in the latest Artnet News coverage of New York’s fall art fairs.

The story highlights a new series of intimately scaled landscapes created by Acosta for the fair, conceived as an opportunity to introduce his work to a new generation of collectors.

Read the full story via the link in bio.
Visit us Today September 26th until 8pm
22nd St between 10th and 11th

@artnet
@marcosacosta.studio
@uhaul_gallery

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#marcosacosta
#uhaulartfair
#hextongallery
#argentineartist taken in New York City by @hextongallery

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23 days ago

Now open at U-Haul Art Fair 2026.

Landscape has remained central to Marcos Acosta’s practice, shaped by observation as well as personal memory and imagined space. Across his work, familiar environments become a way of considering the shifting relationship between what is seen, remembered, and imagined.

Visit Acosta’s presentation in Chelsea through Sunday.

Friday, September 25 – Sunday, September 27
11 AM–6 PM
West 22nd Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues
Chelsea, New York City

Visit the online viewing room via link in bio.

Marcos Acosta
"Portal (III)", 2026
Oil on canvas
72 x 48 in

@marcosacosta.studio
@uhaul_gallery

#marcosacosta
#uhaulartfair
#contemporaryart
#argentineart taken in New York City by @hextongallery

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24 days ago

"The Powers: A Life in Art", directed by Tyler Oliver, will make its New York premiere at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Tuesday, September 29. The film features Larry Poons and Christo, whose works are also included in "MATERIALITY", currently on view at Hexton Gallery.

Long before Pop Art had a name or a market, John and Kimiko Powers were among the first to believe in it, drawn less to the work as commodity than to the artists themselves. Confidants to Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and others, they helped shape an era while remaining, by choice, just outside the spotlight.

Woven from personal archives and never-before-seen conversations with the artists themselves, the documentary film "The Powers: A Life in Art" offers an intimate account of two collectors whose relationships with the artists they championed were as important as the works they acquired. As the art world hardened into market and status, the Powers held to a different standard, rooted in beauty, wonder, and human connection, and in the conviction that collecting, at its best, is an act of friendship.

@tyleroliverstudio
@themuseumofmodernart
@larrypoons
@christojeanneclaude

Image 1: ©️ 1989 Sidney B. Felsen

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#larrypoons
#christo
#materiality
#hextongallery taken in MoMA The Museum of Modern Art by @hextongallery

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a month ago

Opening tomorrow: Hexton Gallery joins U-Haul Art Fair 2026 with a presentation of new work by Marcos Acosta.

Returning to Chelsea for its second edition, U-Haul Art Fair brings together galleries and artists in a street-level format, with presentations staged in rented moving trucks along West 22nd Street.

Friday, September 25 – Sunday, September 27
11 AM–6 PM
West 22nd Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues
Chelsea, New York City

Visit the online viewing room via link in bio.

@marcosacosta.studio
@uhaul_gallery

#marcosacosta
#uhaulartfair
#contemporaryart
#argentineart taken in New York City by @hextongallery

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25 days ago