Lew Allen Galleries opens Katherines Poeter :Paper Works, February 27, 2026

Opening Today, Friday, February 27th, 2026 KATHERINE PORTER: Paper Works KATHERINE PORTER: Paper Works Opening Today, Friday, February 27th, 2026 The paintings and works on paper created by Katherine Porter (1941-2024) stand as one of the significant bodies of work in American Color Abstraction. Her place as one of its most distinguished women practitioners is marked by a remarkable career spanning nearly six decades. Her paintings and works on paper are held within the permanent collections of more than forty important national and international museums.   Her works on paper channel the complexities of her times into signal expressions resulting in high-energy oils and mixed media – pulsating with vibrant kinetic energy and employing a unique visual vocabulary: equal parts geometric, chromatic, and gestural. The noted late art historian Lydia Csato Gasman once described Porter's output as "the vast domain of spontaneity untamed." The artist took chaos and, through a remarkable capacity for creative spontaneity, transformed the subject into sheer brilliance. The expression demonstrates a rare virtuosity of creative freedom blended with technical discipline. The work serves as her personal cri de coeur, cry of the heart, for a better world.    View Exhibition

OTHER EXHIBITIONS NOW ON VIEW HERMAN MARIL Legacy of an American Modernist View Exhibition FORREST MOSES The Artful Heart View Exhibition

ANIMATION: Katherine Porter, Global Warming, 2000, oil on paper, 29.5 x 25 in Katherine Porter, Kingdom (detail), 1997-98, mixed media on paper, 45.5 x 42.5 in  Katherine Porter, Untitled (detail), 1977, mixed media on paper, 20.5 x 27.75 in     EXHIBITIONS: Herman Maril, Kendall Lane Beach / Cape Beach (detail), 1976, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in Forrest, Moses, A Bit of Stream, 2012, oil on canvas, 50 x 52 in   ©2026 LewAllen Galleries | Artwork ©The Estates of the artists pictured

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Lew Allen Galleries new artist featured this week: Brian Rutenberg applies paint in slabs to create his abstract paintings

Brian Rutenberg,​ Phlox 3, 2016, oil on linen, 82 x 60 in FEATURE OF THE WEEK For more than four decades, Brian Rutenberg has made lush paintings that enthusiastically embrace the beauty of nature. Elegant abstract orchestrations of color, line, and space create a distinctive method of compressing rich color and form into complex landscape paintings, imbuing material reality with a deep resonance of place. Rutenberg’s intention in his work is “sustained meditations on the sheer transformative power of looking.” Phlox 3 asserts the sheer lusciousness of paint and color, an example of how Rutenberg proudly declares a “deep love for excess; moderation simply isn’t in my vocabulary.” The painting demonstrates a physical immediacy and immersion, a manner that integrates the visceral and the intellectual.

MORE FROM BRIAN RUTENBERG Brian Rutenberg, Before Rain, 2018, oil on linen, 40 x 60 in Brian Rutenberg, Clambank (detail), 2023, oil on linen, 36 x 55 in Brian Rutenberg, River Diver 6 (detail), 2023, oil on paper, 22.5 x 30 in

A native of South Carolina, Rutenberg's focus on the sense of place is a core tenet of the practice. This philosophy is highlighted in his new commission for the Duke Endowment, entitled The Wild South. Rutenberg’s approach for this significant work stemmed from that used for work in his exhibition Uptergrove​ at LewAllen Galleries, in which the artist was inspired by time spent in the small village of musical hero, Glenn Gould’s, summer cottage in Ontario. Rutenberg currently resides and works in New York City. Brian and his wife Kathryn at the unveiling of The Wild South  View additional work

PREVIOUS FEATURES OF THE WEEK BEN ARONSON Chicago River View more by artist HERMAN MARIL Music in the Stuido View more by artist

Ben Aronson, Chicago River (detail), 2017, oil on panel, 38 x 52.5 Herman Maril, Music in the Studio (detail), 1985, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in   ©2026 LewAllen Galleries | Artwork ©Artists and the Estates of the artists pictured

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