Founded in 1989 by Michael Rosenfeld and currently located in the New York Gallery Building on West 57th Street, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC specializes in twentieth-century American art. In 1992, halley k harrisburg joined the gallery, and since then, both have worked together to advance and expand the canon of American art. Central to the Gallery’s mission is the aim of increasing the visibility of under-recognized American artists and promoting important movements within the history of art in the United States. As art historians with multi-faceted interests, Michael Rosenfeld and halley k harrisburg have developed a diverse and challenging exhibition program that consistently presents high-quality, historical and contemporary artworks with a fresh sensibility. In 2000, the Gallery was invited to join the prestigious, non-profit Art Dealers Association of America, which is comprised of over 160 galleries that have been hailed as leaders in their respective fields of expertise.
To date, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has mounted over 130 exhibitions, seventy of which have been solo shows for such artists as Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, Jay DeFeo, William H. Johnson, Blanche Lazzell, Lenore Tawney, Alma Thomas, and James VanDerZee. Thematic group exhibitions on early American abstraction, realism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, and social realism have also consistently offered new perspectives on American modernism. Many of our exhibitions have traveled to distinguished institutions throughout the United States, including the Columbus Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Flint Institute of the Arts, the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Haggerty Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Tubman African American Museum. Additionally, the Gallery plays a significant role in bringing to the forefront works by artists who had generally received fewer opportunities for recognition due to historical marginalization on the basis of race and gender.
Over the past nineteen years, halley k harrisburg has published more than ninety exhibition catalogs with scholarly contributions by leading art historians, artists, or critics. Such authors have included Hilton Als, Debra Bricker Balken, Jonathan Binstock, Isabelle Dervaux, Leslie King-Hammond, Sam Hunter, Joseph Jacobs, Susan C. Larsen, Gail Levin, Whitfield Lovell, Robert Morgan, Francis V. O'Connor, Carter Ratcliff, Arlene Raven, Barry Schwabsky, Martica Sawin, James Siena,
Lowery Stokes Sims, Elisabeth Sussman, Stephen Westfall, and John Yau. Gallery publications have been recognized for their excellence; most recently, Martha Madigan: Vernal Equinox won the 2002 Independent Publisher’s Award (IPPY) for Outstanding Book of the Year. Since 2001, the Gallery’s website – www.michaelrosenfeldart.com – has also served as a valuable educational tool, making images of artworks and biographies of artists available for viewing by the public.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is honored to represent four distinguished mid-career artists: Nancy Grossman, Martha Madigan, Betye Saar, and Charles Seliger as well as the estates of John Biggers, Federico Castellon, Seymour Lipton, Boris Margo, Irving Norman, Alfonso Ossorio, Theodore Roszak, Louis Stone, Bob Thompson, and Charmion von Wiegand. (To learn more about the artists and estates we represent, please visit the Artists Represented and Selection of Gallery Inventory sections of this website.)
Committed to its founding vision, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery looks forward to continuing its contributions to the field of twentieth century American art with exhibitions and publications that offer new insight and scholarship on artists and art movements in the United States.
