CURATED ART ONE PIECE AT A TIME
KES ZAPKUS, Red Sea Ordeals in Cyberspace, 2017, Oil and acrylic on cotton, Overall size: 72 x 180 inches (3 panels adjoined each 72 x 60 in.), KZ045
Through its carefully curated collection of contemporary artworks, SILAS VON MORISSE GALLERY extensive experience and expertise aims to inspire and engage art enthusiasts and collectors by providing a platform for emerging, established and older generations of artists deserving re-introduction.
Gallery sign photographed by Adolfo Doring
ABOUT THE GALLERY
After her 20+ years of experience in the art world, SILAS VON MORISSE GALLERY (originally named ART 3) was established in February 2014 by Silas von Morisse formerly AVP Gallery Manager of Haunch of Venison (Christie's NY) and Helly Nahmad Gallery New York. After 5 years of operation, the gallery closed its bric & mortar location in New York City to transition to a new gallery model with the “Silas von Morisse Viewing Room".
From 2014-2019, the gallery presented the first New York Solos shows by: Amel Benys, Matthew Cole, Alexis de Chaunac, Juliette Dumas, Anthony Miler, Frauke Schlitz, Owen Schuh, Brett Wallace, Justin Williams. The program developed to include celebrated artists such as Joe Amrhein, Frances Barth, Richmond Burton, David Goerk, Alain Kirili, Monika Weiss, Marjorie Welish, Kes Zapkus. During those years, the gallery program was multidisciplinary, process oriented and leaning towards abstract works while aiming to nurture the development of new emerging art while presenting older generations of artists' work deserving re-introduction.
Image: Inaugural Exhibition, 2014
Juliette Dumas, DELPHES TALE, 2020
In 2020, the gallery shifted its focus on artists working with the depiction of Nature and the Natural World. This approach was originally revealed by French Art Critic, Pierre Restany, who drafted in 1978 the "Rio Negro Manifesto" along with two artists, the Brazilian (born in Poland) Frans Krajcberg, and the Yugoslav based in Brazil, Sepp Baendereck. In 1978, the three men traveled along the Rio Negro River. That extraordinary expedition triggered a profound stream of consciousness in the three men on the urgency of defending the Amazon and combining ethics with esthetics in art. The “Manifesto” yearns for a return to "art for nature”.
Currently, we collaborate with other galeristes and continue working for our represented artists by presenting their works on our "Online Viewing Room" and placing their works in museum and private collections.
We wish to thank all artists, curators, art critics, collectors, art lovers, who accompany us, support us, trust us, or simply appreciate our work.
Image: Juliette Dumas, No Safe Harbor, 2016, The Erased Paintings
Frances Barth in her studio