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ARTIST NEWS | An extension of his artistic practice, Theaster Gates has acquired Pickard China, the last remaining American manufacturer of fine porcelain.

Founded in 1893 and based in Antioch, Illinois, the historic company represents a longstanding tradition of American artisanal production and material craftsmanship. The acquisition reflects Gates’s sustained engagement with ceramics, cultural preservation, and the transformation of existing industrial and institutional infrastructures into sites of renewed artistic and social possibility. Building upon his longstanding commitment to safeguarding cultural legacies and histories of making, Gates envisions a new chapter for Pickard that situates traditional craftsmanship within contemporary artistic discourse, while advancing the future of American porcelain production.

Full article by @npr in bio.

📷: Theaster Gates at the Pickard China factory in Antioch, Ill. Credit: Akilah Townsend for NPR.

@theastergates #theastergates by @richardgraygallery

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TOMORROW | Torkwase Dyson’s solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz opens bringing together architectural sculptures, newly conceived paintings, and an immersive soundscape. The KUB exhibition is the first solo presentation of Dyson’s work in Austria.

The exhibition encompasses multiple of the museum’s levels, beginning on the ground floor with a monumental architectural intervention comprising two black, sail-shaped sculptural forms that transform the spatial experience of Peter Zumthor’s architecture. On the second floor, a darkened gallery brings together stop-motion animation, an immersive soundscape, and thirty-four small canvases, constituting the score. The exhibition also includes a series of large-scale paintings exploring waterways and infrastructures as sites of colonial trauma, invention, and liberation, extending Dyson’s investigations into the relationships between geography, spatial autonomy, and Black lived experience.

On view through January 24, 2027.

📷: Miro Kuzmanovic. © Kunsthaus Bregenz

@torkwasedyson @kunsthausbregenz taken in Kunsthaus Bregenz by @richardgraygallery

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ON VIEW | “We are living in a very historical moment in the world where everything seems very brutal and violent. For me, it’s important to try to send a message of the opposite.”

On view at GRAY Chicago, Beyond Silence features Jaume Plensa’s monumental carved-wood reliefs, large sculptural portraits in cast iron and granite, and intimately-scaled bronze works. Moving between architectural monumentality and intimate encounters, Plensa’s exploration of scale and material invites viewers to consider the human figure as a universal form through which to evoke quietude, introspection, and a shared humanity.

Jaume Plensa: Beyond Silence is on view through December 19.

🎥: Jaume Plensa: Beyond Silence at GRAY Chicago. Video: Chris Strong.

#jaumeplensa @jaumeplensaofficial taken in Richard Gray Gallery by @richardgraygallery

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THIS WEEK | Opening on October 17 at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Torkwase Dyson’s first solo exhibition in Austria brings together monumental architectural sculptures, painting, animation, and sound in an expansive investigation of Black Geographies and the historical, political, and ecological dimensions of space.

Transforming Peter Zumthor’s architecture through a series of site-specific interventions, Dyson presents monumental sculptural forms — “hypershapes” — rooted in her theory of Black Compositional Thought. Across the museum’s floors, architectural sculptures, newly conceived paintings, and an immersive soundscape interrogate histories of displacement and dispossession while foregrounding the ways Black communities have transformed and invented spaces of freedom and self-determination.

On view through January 24, 2027.

📷: Torkwase Dyson, Aya, 2025. Photo: Evan Jenkins © Torkwase Dyson. Courtesy of the artist, GRAY Chicago / New York.

@torkwasedyson #torkwasedyson @kunsthausbregenz taken in Kunsthaus Bregenz by @richardgraygallery

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NEW RELEASE | GRAY is pleased to announce the release of Theaster Gates: OH, YOU’VE GOT TO COME BACK TO THE CITY, a fully illustrated catalogue documenting Gates’s 2025 exhibition at GRAY Chicago.   The exhibition brought together tar paintings, sculpture, and installation to tell an allegory of a city in decay and the potential contained within its ruins, drawing its premise from a song by Chicago musician and poet Marvin Tate in which the City, personified, attempts to lure its residents back from the suburbs.

The catalog features an essay titled “Theatricality and Conjuration” by David J. Levin, the Alice H. and Stanley G. Harris Distinguished Service Professor of Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago.  Learn more at the link in bio.

@theastergates by @richardgraygallery

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UPCOMING | Join Candida Alvarez at El Museo del Barrio on Friday, October 9, from 5–7 PM, for the launch of Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop, a new bilingual publication surveying nearly five decades of the artist’s practice.

Alvarez will be joined in conversation by catalogue contributors Zuna Maza and Adriana Zavala, moderated by Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos. Published by El Museo del Barrio and KMEC Books, the volume accompanies Alvarez’s landmark 2025 exhibition—the artist’s first large-scale museum survey and first solo presentation in New York City since 1993.  Circle, Point, Hoop at El Museo del Barrio was Brooklyn-born artist Candida Alvarez’s first large-scale museum survey and first solo presentation in New York City since 1993. The bilingual catalogue, with a richly illustrated plate section, offers an expansive entry point into her nearly fifty-year career, and includes commissioned essays by Shiben Banerji, Terry R. Myers, Susanna V. Temkin, and Adriana Zavala, and texts by the exhibition’s curators Rodrigo Moura and Zuna Maza.

RSVP via El Museo del Barrio at the link in bio.

#candidaalvarez @candida_alvarez_studio @elmuseo taken in El Museo del Barrio by @richardgraygallery

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ON VIEW | Jaume Plensa: Remote, Serene, Ethereal extends the artist’s enduring investigation of the figure and its capacity to evoke a shared sense of humanity.

Co-presented by GRAY and Galerie Lelong, the exhibition brings together three monumental painted-bronze portraits with a suite of site-specific charcoal wall drawings. While the foundational images in his portrait works come from specific figures from his community in Barcelona, the forms pull away from those individualities and move toward a more universal collective when elongated and monumentally scaled.

On view through December 19 at GRAY New York.

📷: Installation views of Jaume Plensa: Remote, Serene, Ethereal at GRAY New York. taken in Richard Gray Gallery by @richardgraygallery

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TOMORROW | GRAY is pleased to participate in the Madison Avenue Fall Gallery Walk on Saturday, October 3, from 11 AM–5 PM.  Presented by ARTnews and the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District, the Madison Avenue Fall Gallery Walk invites the public to explore exhibitions and special programming across Madison Avenue and its surrounding streets, from East 57th to East 86th Street.

Now on view at GRAY New York, Jaume Plensa: Remote, Serene, Ethereal brings together three monumental painted-bronze portraits surrounded by a suite of site-specific wall drawings created by the artist in situ. The exhibition extends Plensa’s sustained investigation of the human figure and the enduring tension between the universal and the individual. 
📷: Jaume Plensa, Ethereal (Martina), 2026 . Artwork © Jaume Plensa.
 #jaumeplensa @jaumeplensaofficial #madisonavenuefallgallerywalk @madisonavebid taken in Richard Gray Gallery by @richardgraygallery

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ON VIEW | Now on view at The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery at York University in Toronto, Torkwase Dyson’s The Distance Inside Us (Bird and Lava) explores the literal and conceptual spaces of liberation and confinement amid ecological crisis.

Curated by Lillian O’Brien and spanning all three gallery spaces, the exhibition is a culmination of an ongoing series entitled Bird and Lava which meditates on the dense and fluid variations of space to emphasize a liminal state of belonging.

The exhibition draws on Dyson’s exploration of Black Compositional Thought, or the way in which abstraction operates as a means of imagining spatial, ecological, and political possibility. Referencing “The Clearing” in Toni Morrison’s Beloved—a space of freedom, improvisation, and collectivity—Dyson positions pluralism and adaptability as essential conditions for liberation and ecological repair.  On view through March 6, 2027. 
📷: Installation views of Torkwase Dyson: The Distance Inside Us (Bird and Lava) at The Goldfarb Gallery of York University, curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis. Photograph: Toni Hafkenscheid.

@torkwasedyson @thegoldfarbgallery #torkwasedyson taken in Joan & Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts by @richardgraygallery

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ON VIEW | The first major exhibition in more than three decades to explore Alex Katz’s drawings, Alex Katz | Out of Sight: A Drawing Survey reveals the essential role of drawing in the artist’s creative process.

On view at the Colby College Museum of Art, the landmark exhibition brings together more than seventy works spanning Katz’s career, including never-before-exhibited drawings from the artist’s personal collection. From preparatory sketches and presentation drawings to collages, cartoons, and related paintings, Out of Sight traces the processes of discovery, experimentation, and revision behind Katz’s work.  Closes October 11, 2026.

📷: Installation view of Alex Katz | Out of Sight: A Drawing Survey, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2026. Photo: Art Index.

@alexkatzofficial #alexkatz @colbymuseum taken in Colby College Museum of Art by @richardgraygallery

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ON VIEW | Moving between the intimate and the architectural, Jaume Plensa: Beyond Silence brings together works at dramatically different scales, from small-scale bronzes from the Twilight series to twenty-eight-foot carved-wood reliefs that span the gallery. Across wood, bronze, cast iron, and granite, Plensa considers scale and material as vehicles for exploring the figure and the continuity of shared human experience.

Now on view at GRAY Chicago, the exhibition marks Plensa’s tenth solo presentation with the gallery.  Jaume Plensa: Beyond Silence remains on view through December 19, 2026.

📷: Installation views of Jaume Plensa: Beyond Silence at GRAY Chicago.

#jaumeplensa @jaumeplensaofficial taken in Richard Gray Gallery by @richardgraygallery

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ON THIS DAY | Wishing a very happy birthday to Rashid Johnson today!

This month, Johnson was named to TIME’s inaugural TIME100 Art list, an honor that arrives amid a landmark year for the artist, following A Poem for Deep Thinkers, his major survey at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The exhibition will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (@mcachicago) this November, bringing Johnson’s expansive practice back to his hometown. GRAY is proud to have presented Johnson’s work for nearly two decades, from his 2008 solo exhibition, Cosmic Slops, to his inclusion in the 2025 group exhibition Apparitions at GRAY Chicago.  📷: 1. Rashid Johnson. Credit: Erik Tanner, @TIME. 2-4. Installation views of Rashid Johnson: Cosmic Slops at Richard Gray Gallery (Michigan Ave, Chicago), Sep 5 – Oct 4, 2008; 5-6. Installation views of Apparitions at GRAY Chicago, Apr 24 - Jun 27, 2025.

@rashidjohnson by @richardgraygallery

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