Exhibitions

Summer Show

4 Jul - 7 Sep 2024 Read more

Pools on Paper

4 Jul - 7 Sep 2024 Read more

Henri Matisse: Prints

2 May - 29 Jun 2024 Read more

8 Golden Square: Group Show

15 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 Read more

Bruce McLean: Sculptures of Jugs and Paintings of Sculptures of Jugs

30 Nov 2023 - 1 Mar 2024 Read more

William Tillyer: The Mulgrave Tensile Wire Works

28 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents The Mulgrave Tensile Wire Works by British artist William Tillyer, alongside his Scalby Suite and Study for a Constructed Painting series. This exhibition presents Tillyer’s reinvention of the traditional still life genre. The first series, the Mulgrave Tensile Wire Works (2021-22), are painted on wire mesh deconstructing the conventional relationship between medium and support. The second series, the Scalby Suite etchings (2022), demonstrate Tillyer’s skill as a printmaker while including his distinctive grid motif. The final series on display are the watercolours, Study for a Constructed Painting (2023), which reveal Tillyer as the colourist and simultaneously exhibits the unifying structure of the grid. Read more

Robert Motherwell: Paintings

29 Jun - 23 Sep 2023 Read more

Robert Motherwell: Collages and Works on Paper

8 - 24 Jun 2023 Read more

Robert Motherwell: Prints

11 May - 3 Jun 2023 Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents a three-part showcase of works by American artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). This opening exhibition displays a selection of etchings, lithographs and screen prints. Read more

Bernd Koberling

29 Mar - 4 May 2023 Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents a selection of paintings by the German artist Bernd Koberling (b. 1938). This occasion marks Koberling's first exhibition in the UK since the 1980s, when the Royal Academy of Arts organised A New Spirit in Painting (1981) and German Art in the 20th Century (1985). Spanning 1999 to the present, the paintings and watercolours featured in this exhibition reflect Koberling’s fascination with nature and its landscapes. Read more

Sam Francis

2 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 To celebrate the centenary of his birth, Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and prints by the great American painter Sam Francis (1923 - 1994). Read more

Marc Vaux at 90: A Survey

7 Dec 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 In celebration of Marc Vaux’s 90th birthday, Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents a survey of works from the 1960s to the present day. Read more

Mixed Show

10 - 30 Nov 2022 Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents a mixed show of gallery artists. Artists include Ivor Abrahams, Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Robyn Denny, Sam Francis, John Hoyland, Henri Matisse, Bruce McLean, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Richard Smith, William Tillyer, and Marc Vaux. Read more

One to One Children’s Fund: Lindokuhle Sobekwa

2 - 5 Nov 2022 From the 2nd to 5th of November, Bernard Jacobson Gallery will host an immersive experience of the day-to-day life and work of One to One Children’s Fund's Mentor Mothers. Read more

William Tillyer: Still Life

29 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents a selection of still lifes by the British artist William Tillyer. This exhibition examines the development of the still life throughout the course of Tillyer's career and unfolds through a variety of media, including watercolours, prints, oil paint and acrylic, and the artist's signature wire mesh, which he incorporated as early as the 1970s. Read more

Leon Kossoff: Etchings

1 - 24 Sep 2022 Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents a selection of etchings from the 1980s by British artist Leon Kossoff. The etchings, which were published by Bernard Jacobson, reveal Kossoff’s profound connection to London. Read more

Object / Subject: The Art of Still Life

7 Jul - 26 Aug 2022 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is pleased to present a selection of still lifes by Georges Braque, William Tillyer, Bruce McLean, Matthew Smith, and Tom Wesselmann, among others. Read more

Howard Hodgkin: Recollections

21 Apr - 2 Jul 2022 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of prints spanning the career of British artist Howard Hodgkin. With an emphasis on memory and recollection, the exhibition brings together a selection of vibrant prints published and collected by Bernard Jacobson, including Hodgkin's first ever-made series, Five Rooms (1966). Read more

Ed Ruscha: Made in California

10 Mar - 14 Apr 2022 Bernard Jacobson Gallery exhibits iconic prints by the American artist Ed Ruscha. Bringing together several prints published by Bernard Jacobson in the 1970s and early 1980s, the show also includes prints from his collection as a longstanding admirer of Ruscha's printmaking. Read more

Denny, Hoyland, Smith, Vaux: On Paper

2 Feb - 5 Mar 2022 Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents Denny, Hoyland, Smith, Vaux: On Paper, an exhibition of works by Modern British icons Robyn Denny, John Hoyland, Richard Smith and Marc Vaux. Departing from the 1960s, a time when artists sought to shun the confines of British semi-abstract painterly tradition of London and the St. Ives School, the exhibition explores the dialogue between each of these four artists’ distinctive use of the medium as they champion new advances in abstract painting. Read more

Georges Braque: The Poetry of Things

4 Nov 2021 - 27 Jan 2022 Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of Georges Braque in London since Braque: The Late Works at the Royal Academy, nearly 25 years ago. The exhibition brings together 17 still-life paintings, made between 1922 and the 1950s. Read more

William Tillyer: The Mulgrave Tensile Wire Works and The Mulgrave Wire Scrolls

16 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 In The Mulgrave Tensile Wire Works, William Tillyer has produced probably the most radical paintings of his career. Stainless steel wires strung across a metal frame and held in tension by turnbuckles support geometrically shaped areas of metal mesh, woven through with paint reflecting the colours of the North Yorkshire landscape, where the artist has lived for most of his life. Read more

Bruce McLean, William Tillyer, Marc Vaux: New Works

London Gallery Weekend 4 Jun - 2 Jul 2021 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition of recent works by Bruce McLean, William Tillyer, and Marc Vaux. Read more

Henri Matisse: Goldfish Bowls and Other Prints

London Original Print Week 1 - 28 May 2021 Read more

William Tillyer: Watercolours

8 Oct - 13 Nov 2020 Ranging from abstracted mediations on the organic flow of materials to large bodies of work made in response to William Tillyer’s extensive travels (from Sweden to Australia; a European Grand Tour to the American West; the artist’s native Yorkshire to the coast of County Kerry), this show encompasses the wide-ranging interests that characterise the artist’s approach in all media. Read more

Bruce McLean: Future Garden Works

Online Exhibition 9 - 30 Jul 2020 Read more

The 70s: Explosion of Colours

Online Exhibition 28 Apr - 30 May 2020 Read more

Robert Motherwell: A Survey of Prints

17 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of prints by the American Abstract Expressionist artist Robert Motherwell. The exhibition will be the most comprehensive show of his editioned work to date. Read more

Marc Vaux: New Paintings

22 Nov 2019 - 11 Jan 2020 Read more

Robyn Denny: Works on Paper

11 Oct - 16 Nov 2019 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of works on paper by the celebrated British artist Robyn Denny, one of the most original and significant painters of the post-war era and the youngest ever to be given a retrospective at the Tate, which took place in 1973. Read more

Some of the artists I have worked for

10 Sep - 5 Oct 2019 To end the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the gallery, we are delighted to introduce a selection of works by the artists that helped shaping its success. Read more

Bruce McLean: 5 Decades of Sculpture

26 Apr - 29 Jun 2019 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce a special season of exhibitions, publications, film, and performance celebrating half a century of the creative output of Bruce McLean, one of the most important figures in British contemporary art. The season will include a two-part retrospective at Bernard Jacobson Gallery, the publication of a new book with essay by Mel Gooding and commentary by McLean, and the premiere of a film by McLean and long-time 'Nice Style' collaborator, Gary Chitty, titled The Decorative Potential of Blazing Factories. Read more

Ivor Abrahams: The Garden and Other Themes

15 Mar - 18 Apr 2019 Read more

Prints I published

12 Feb - 9 Mar 2019 In 1969 Bernard Jacobson began his career as an art dealer, selling and publishing prints by important contemporary artists from a small fourth-floor gallery in London’s Mayfair. For a gallery founded on printmaking and which continues to stage major print shows by artists including Matisse and Motherwell, what better way could there be to celebrate this half century than a two-part exhibition devoted to printmaking? Read more

Prints I wish I had published

11 Jan - 9 Feb 2019 In 1969 Bernard Jacobson opened his first London gallery – a fourth-floor walk-up on Mount Street, Mayfair, dealing in prints by international stars, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, as well as publishing prints by leading British artists including Malcolm Morley and Robyn Denny. Printmaking fit the radical, pop sensibility of the time, and Jacobson was part of that heady explosion of interest in the medium. As the gallery approaches its half century in 2019, it is fitting that this landmark year opens with an ambitious two-part exhibition exploring Jacobson's personal and abiding love of prints and some of the remarkable works published by the gallery during an eventful 50 years in the business. Read more

William Tillyer: The Golden Striker and Esk Paintings

26 Sep - 24 Nov 2018 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce William Tillyer: The Golden Striker and Esk Paintings, a special exhibition of new paintings staged in celebration of William Tillyer's 80th birthday this September. Read more

Henri Matisse: Prints

6 Jul - 15 Sep 2018 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce a wide ranging exhibition featuring more than 60 rare and important works from the Gallery’s comprehensive collection of Henri Matisse prints, currently the largest and most significant collection of Matisse prints held by any commercial gallery in the world. Read more

William Tillyer and Alice Oswald: Nobody

26 Apr - 23 Jun 2018 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce William Tillyer and Alice Oswald: Nobody, a collaboration between the acclaimed British artist William Tillyer and Alice Oswald, who is widely regarded as the finest living British poet and is the current artist-in-residence at BBC Radio 4. Read more

William Tillyer: À Rebours

15 Feb - 24 Mar 2018 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce William Tillyer: À Rebours, an exhibition of the new folio of 52 prints by William Tillyer inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans' seminal nineteenth-century novel. The folio will also be accompanied by the publication this February of a new translation of À Rebours by acclaimed author and translator, Theo Cuffe; the publication will be illustrated throughout by Tillyer. Read more

William Tillyer: Radical Vision

12 Jan - 10 Feb 2018 William Tillyer: Radical Vision is the first of a series of five exhibitions at Bernard Jacobson Gallery presented during 2018 to honour the work of William Tillyer as he turns 80. The gallery's working relationship with Tillyer spans the rich evolution of his practice across almost five decades, representing a creative pairing unique in contemporary art and one which is also celebrated throughout 2018. Read more

Marc Vaux: The Edge and Beyond

17 Nov - 21 Dec 2017 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is proud to announce Marc Vaux: The Edge and Beyond, an exhibition spanning more than four decades of experimental work by the renowned British artist. The exhibition includes more than 50 works from his ongoing series of wall constructions and related works, created from 1977 to the present day – presented to celebrate the artist's 85th birthday this November. Read more

Henri Matisse: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Prints

2 Jun - 23 Oct 2017 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce Henri Matisse: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Prints, an exhibition of more than a dozen of original works by one of the greatest masters of the twentieth century. The exhibition includes paintings, works on paper, and sculptures, as well as a selection of prints. The show is timed to coincide with the forthcoming Royal Academy exhibition Matisse in the Studio, which will open this August. Read more

Sam Francis

20 Apr - 27 May 2017 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce a new exhibition of masterworks by the renowned Californian artist, Sam Francis, widely considered one of the most important artists of the post-war era. The exhibition is an opportunity to see work from the beginning of his artistic career in the early 1950s through to his death in the early 1990s, including both large-scale works on canvas and more intimate studies on paper. Read more

William Tillyer: The Wildenstein Hermitage and Other Paintings

10 Mar - 13 Apr 2017 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of works by William Tillyer. The professional relationship between Bernard Jacobson and the artist will serve as backdrop to the selection of pieces, representing a condensed exploration of the themes, graphic elements, and inspirations behind one of the greatest British artists, in occasion of the writing of the artist's biography by Jacobson. Read more

Caro, Denny, Smith, Vaux

2 Feb - 4 Mar 2017 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to present its upcoming exhibition Caro, Denny, Smith, Vaux, including works by gallery artists Anthony Caro, Robyn Denny, Richard Smith, and Marc Vaux. The show will include paintings and sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as from more recent years. Read more

Bruce McLean: A Hot Sunset and Shade Paintings

2 Dec 2016 - 28 Jan 2017 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by acclaimed British action sculptor, painter, and ceramicist, Bruce McLean. The exhibition will feature works produced over the past year, including six Shade paintings, a series of vivid works which explore light and shadows, as well as a six-meter long minimalist Sunset painting, and a group of new monoprints on wood. Read more

Robert Motherwell: Abstract Expressionism

15 Sep - 26 Nov 2016 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce Robert Motherwell: Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition will be an opportunity to investigate the various forms of abstract expressionist art from Motherwell’s long and distinguished career through carefully selected masterpieces in painting and collage, including his great final collage, The Blue Guitar (1990-91) which references Picasso’s famous blue period painting, The Old Guitarist. Read more

Bonheur de Vivre

18 Mar - 27 May 2016 Bonheur de Vivre is the result of long-held desire by Bernard Jacobson to present work by some of the great artists who have particularly inspired and sustained his own love of modern art throughout a long and distinguished career as a gallerist. Read more

Sam Francis: A Survey of Graphic Work

27 Nov 2015 - 30 Jan 2016 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of limited edition prints by American Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis (1923-1994). The exhibition presents a survey of the artist's entire graphic output, spanning almost four decades of printmaking. It is part of our ongoing programme of important surveys of works by major printmakers such as Robert Motherwell in 2012 and Ed Ruscha in 2013. Read more

Frank Stella

17 Sep - 21 Nov 2015 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is proud to announce its forthcoming exhibition of works by Frank Stella (b. 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts). Read more

William Tillyer: The Palmer Paintings

1 May - 20 Jun 2015 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is very pleased to announce that our second exhibition in our new space on Duke Street St. James's will be a series of paintings by one of Britain's leading painters William Tillyer. The Palmer paintings continue Tillyer's long engagement with the English landscape and in particular his lifelong obsession with clouds. Read more

Robert Motherwell: A Centenary Survey of Major Works

24 Jan - 25 Apr 2015 To mark the centenary of Robert Motherwell’s birth on 24th January 1915, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery will inaugurate its new space in Duke Street St James’s, London, with an exhibition that will survey the major series of the artist’s work. Read more

Sam Francis

5 Jun - 29 Aug 2014 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of the exhibition Sam Francis, a collection of works by the renowned American artist. Read more

Bruce McLean: Action Sculpture Potato Painting

31 May - 29 Jun 2014 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of Bruce McLean's new exhibition, Action Sculpture Potato Painting, a collection of new works by the Scottish sculptor, performance artist, filmmaker, and painter. Read more

Marc Vaux: New Ovals

2 - 31 May 2014 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Marc Vaux: New Ovals, a collection of new works by the renowned British artist. The current exhibition focuses on a group of large, ovoid paintings - a coherent and visually exciting body of work, which marks the culmination of Vaux's previous projects. Read more

Kwang Young Chun: New Work

12 Mar - 17 Apr 2014 To mark Kwang Young Chun's 70th Birthday in 2014, Bernard Jacobson Gallery will be holding an exhibition of new works from his Aggregation series to coincide with the publication of the Rizzoli monograph, Mulberry Mindscapes. Read more

William Tillyer: The Watering Place

11 Oct - 20 Dec 2013 To mark the artist's 75th birthday, Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by British artist William Tillyer. The exhibition will consist of works from two new series: The Watering Place and Palmer. The exhibition will coincide with the artist's retrospective exhibition at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. Read more

Robert Motherwell: Collages

5 Jun - 28 Aug 2013 Read more

Howard Hodgkin: Views, An Exhibition of Early Prints

2 Mar - 2 Apr 2013 Read more

Kurt Schwitters: Collages and Assemblages, 1920 - 1947

28 Jan - 3 Apr 2013 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is proud to announce its forthcoming exhibition of collages and assemblages by the German painter, sculptor, typographer, and writer Kurt Schwitters, one of the pioneers of European modernism. The exhibition will coincide with Tate's Schwitters in Britain exhibition. Read more

Ed Ruscha: I'm Amazed

10 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 Bernard Jacobson Graphics is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition of prints by the renowned American artist Ed Ruscha. I'm Amazed will provide unique insight into the celebrated graphic output of this important American artist, focusing on his world of words and featuring some of the artist's most iconic images. Read more

Marc Vaux: Full House, Paintings from 1964

15 Nov - 21 Dec 2012 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is proud to announce Marc Vaux: Full House, Paintings from 1964 by the renowned British artist on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Read more

Bruce McLean: The Shapes of Sculpture

10 Oct - 10 Nov 2012 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to present a show of new work by Scottish artist Bruce McLean. McLean has been investigating the condition of sculpture since the late 1960s and creatively interrogating, in an astonishing diversity of media, the nature of its validity, its diverse possibilities of meaning, its propositions and pretensions, its presentations, positionings and re-positionings, its private and public settings, indoor and outdoor, and its critical contexts. Read more

Robert Motherwell: Prints from the Artist's Studio

12 Sep - 6 Oct 2012 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of limited edition prints by the American artist Robert Motherwell. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Motherwell produced a remarkable body of work that ranks among the most notable achievements in post-war American art. In addition to creating his celebrated paintings, drawings, and collages, Motherwell was a renowned and innovative printmaker. Read more

Karl Hyde: What's Going on in Your Head When You're Dancing?

17 Jul - 10 Aug 2012 Although Karl Hyde has often exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, this will be his first exhibition of paintings in the UK and features the work that was shown at his first-ever one-man painting show at the La Foret Museum in Tokyo last year. Hyde's large-scale paintings, diptych, and triptychs are entirely abstract gestural works, which have an affinity to both abstract expressionism and Japanese calligraphy. Read more

Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, and Drawings

4 Apr - 11 Jul 2012 The works on display at Bernard Jacobson Gallery date from throughout Nicholson’s distinguished career and include his 1930s and 1940s geometric abstract paintings, paintings on canvas and board from the 1950s, his subsequent reliefs, and his last works in oil and felt tip. Read more

Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper

11 Oct - 26 Nov 2011 Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, the first ever exhibition dedicated to drawings and paintings on paper by Robert Motherwell to be held in Britain, will be staged at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery in 2011. The exhibition, taking place 20 years after the artist's death, will comprise some 90 works spanning most of his career. The exhibition will be accompanied by a scholarly, fully illustrated catalogue. Read more

Bram Bogart: Monochrome

30 Jun - 30 Jul 2011 In celebration of Bram Bogart's 90th birthday, Bernard Jacobson Gallery is proud to present an exhibition that spans the six decades of the artist's distinguished career. The show will focus on a recurring theme in Bogart's work, the monochrome painting. Read more

Harold Cohen: New Paintings

8 Apr - 7 May 2011 Harold Cohen acquired a major reputation in the 1960s as a painter and leading figure in the new London scene and represented the UK at the 1966 Venice Biennale, documenta 5, and in museum shows throughout the world. In 1968, he moved to California, where he served as professor and then as chair in the newly formed visual arts department of the University of California, San Diego. There, he turned his attention to computing and quickly built a second reputation as a pioneer in the application of computing to the arts. Read more

William Tillyer: The Balcony Watercolours

10 Feb - 2 Apr 2011 The acknowledged master of watercolour William Tillyer presents a new series of works made in the latter part of last year while on a tour of southern Europe. Views of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic are seen from hotel balconies in a style which is at times explosive and at others reflective. Read more

Marc Vaux, New Paintings: Triptychs and Ovals

19 Nov 2010 - 5 Feb 2011 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is proud to announce Marc Vaux, New Paintings: Triptychs and Ovals by the renowned British artist. Read more

Pierre Soulages: New Paintings

24 Jun - 1 Sep 2010 Bernard Jacobson Gallery will be holding the first exhibition of new work by Pierre Soulages in London since 1972. Read more

William Tillyer Season: New Paintings, Clouds

19 May - 19 Jun 2010 The concluding part of the Season exhibition series will offer a first glimpse of William Tillyer's latest body of work. Read more

William Tillyer Season: The Watercolours

9 Apr - 15 May 2010 Part three of the four-part Season exhibition series traces the evolution of William Tillyer's watercolour practice across four decades, revealing the vitality and relevance he has brought to the traditional medium. Read more

William Tillyer Season: The Paintings

3 Mar - 3 Apr 2010 As part two of the four-part Season exhibition series, March's The Paintings retrospective will take a look at the evolution of William Tillyer's singular approach to picture making across five decades. Read more

William Tillyer Season: The Prints

5 - 27 Feb 2010 Celebrating William Tillyer and Bernard Jacobson's long-running working partnership, spring 2010's four-part exhibition series will begin with a look at Tillyer's extensive printed output. Read more

Sam Francis: Works on Paper

11 Nov - 9 Dec 2009 Whilst Sam Francis made many works on canvas, it is arguably on paper - with its direct luminosity and partial absorbance of pigment - that his work really comes into its own. Here, against the plain white ground, the interplay of gesture and colour, pigment and light, take on a dynamic relation at once exuberant and elemental, theatrical and poetic, which not only allows, but demands, that the viewer enter the works and partake in their material flow. Read more

Bruce McLean: New Work

9 Oct - 7 Nov 2009 Bruce McLean is back with his first exhibition of new paintings in more than 20 years. Collectively entitled The Black Garden Paintings, these works are abstracted paintings of his gardens in Barnes and in Menorca, where he spends part of the year, and of his friend's garden also in Barnes. Read more

Bram Bogart: Large Paintings

9 Sep - 3 Oct 2009 From densely 'scripted' works in which trowelled heaps of highly toned paint nestle into and against each other, to calm upright works in which austere white planes are enlivened by occasionally erupting flecks of bright colour, the exhibition bares witness to the diverse range of effects Bogart's technical mastery enables. Read more

Robert Motherwell: Open

17 Jun - 18 Aug 2009 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to present a selection of major works from Robert Motherwell's Open series. The exhibition is timed to correspond with the release of a seminal book on the series by 21 Publishing, with texts by leading international critics. Read more

Clay

8 - 30 May 2009 This exhibition features works in clay by contemporary artists, including Bram Bogart, Barry Flanagan, Phillip King, and Nicholas Pope. Read more

Reflections

3 - 28 Mar 2009 This exhibition sees the grouping of recent work by Larry Bell, Joe Goode, William Tillyer, and Marc Vaux. All four were born in the 1930s - Bell and Goode prominent figures in the Los Angeles scene since passing through the Chouinard Art Institute in the early 1960s, Vaux and Tillyer having settled in London and Yorkshire respectively, after studying at the Slade, also in the early 1960s. Read more

Ben Nicholson: Selected Works

4 - 28 Feb 2009 The works on display at Bernard Jacobson Gallery date from across Ben Nicholson's distinguished career and range from his fully abstract white reliefs to his later pencil drawings of architectural ruins. While he is often associated with his more abstract works, the current exhibition builds upon the success of the Tate's current touring exhibition in presenting a more rounded view of Nicholson's oeuvre. Read more

Tom Wesselmann: Journeys into the Landscape

26 Nov 2008 - 10 Jan 2009 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to present a comprehensive selection of Tom Wesselmann's landscape steel-cuts. A fully illustrated catalogue featuring an introductory text and never-before-seen extracts from Tom Wesselmann's journal is also available. Read more

Robert Motherwell: Five Great Opens

15 Oct - 22 Nov 2008 From 15th October, Bernard Jacobson Gallery will stage the most significant exhibition of Robert Motherwell's work in England since his 1978 Royal Academy retrospective, organised by Norman Rosenthal. The show will feature five rarely seen key works from the late abstract expressionist's Open series and marks the first part of a major two-part exhibition on the series. Read more

William Tillyer: The Cadiz Caprices

12 Sep - 11 Oct 2008 The 25 works which make up this new series were executed in William Tillyer's North Yorkshire studio and yet recall the impressions and experiences the artist gained during his three-month residency in the Castillo de Santa Catalina, Cadiz, in 2006, at the invitation of the municipal government. Read more

Harold Cohen: Colour Rules

9 Jul - 15 Aug 2008 Harold Cohen's new works represent the most recent stage of a project in evolution since 1972, when he seemingly abandoned his distinguished painting career in favour of computer programming. Since then, Cohen has channelled all his artistic efforts into writing AARON, a computer programme capable of autonomously generating original imagery. Read more

Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings, 1959 - 2002

29 May - 5 Jul 2008 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by the artist Helen Frankenthaler, who is widely regarded to have bridged the gap between Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field. The exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to view works ranging from the 1950s to 2002. Read more

Phillip King: Living with Colour

2 Apr - 3 May 2008 This exhibition, Phillip King's first since retiring as the president of the Royal Academy in 2004, shows the sculptor taking his lead from a new material - foam PVC. The versatility of the light, malleable, and hardwearing material lends a playful vitality to the show. Read more

Joe Goode: DONTNO

8 Feb - 1 Mar 2008 Bernard Jacobson Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by the renowned Los Angeles based artist Joe Goode. Born in 1937 in Oklahoma, Goode rose to prominence in the West Coast art scene of the early 1960s having made the voyage west with his childhood friend Ed Ruscha the preceding decade. Read more

Robyn Denny: Paintings from the '60s

19 Dec 2007 - 20 Jan 2008 Dating from the 1960s, Robyn Denny's paintings on display at Bernard Jacobson Gallery belong to one of the most accomplished periods of the artist's career to date. The works continue to resonate with power and intensity, which conforms to Denny's desire that 'no painting should reveal all it has to say as a kind of instant impact. Read more

Bram Bogart

21 Nov - 15 Dec 2007 The work on display at Bernard Jacobson Gallery remains, like Bram Bogart's career, a testament to his unique and single-minded breed of abstraction. There is a diversity of scale and even medium, with some smaller experiments in thickened gouache resting alongside some of the largest works of his career. Read more

Pia Fries: Painted Tongues

11 Oct - 10 Nov 2007 For this exhibition, the artist will exhibit a frieze of horizontal paintings in the newly refurbished downstairs gallery and large new paintings in the upstairs gallery. Alongside these works, we will be showing a set of four newly published aquatints, printed and published by the Crown Point Press, San Francisco. Read more

Larry Poons: New Paintings

12 Sep - 10 Oct 2007 Larry Poons' current works are large canvases covered with an incredible armoury of different small brush marks. Although abstract, they bring to mind associations with Post-Impressionist painters such as Édouard Vuillard and Georges Seurat. The exhibition is in celebration of Poons' 70th birthday. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition with a text by Frank Stella. Read more

Larry Bell

6 - 29 Jun 2007 This June, Bernard Jacobson Gallery is pleased to present a new group of works by the Los Angeles artist Larry Bell. The exhibition will feature new glass cubes, each unique, measuring 15 inches cubed. As well as these glass cubes, we will also be exhibiting a large-scale four-panel glass sculpture. Read more

Marc Vaux: Colour Edge to Edge, Paintings from the mid '60s

4 May - 2 Jun 2007 In the mid-1960s Marc Vaux became aware that his primary interest in painting was colour in its purest sense. Prior to this point, his work had been predominantly concerned with the structure of painting, combining hard edge and gestural paintwork in one canvas. The exhibition will consists of six paintings, most of which have not been seen since the 1960s, along with a group of preparatory drawings in black and white and colour. Read more

Ben Nicholson

9 Jan - 3 Feb 2007 Ben Nicholson is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the development of British abstraction. This exhibition will include paintings and drawings from all periods of his life, starting with the drawing Cafe Robinson, St Remy from the early thirties, going through to a White Relief from 1936 and then the hard edged geometrical paintings of the early forties. Read more

William Tillyer: The Revisionist Wire Works

1 Dec 2006 - 6 Jan 2007 In December Bernard Jacobson Gallery will be showing a group of six new large paintings by William Tillyer. Under the group title The Revisionist Wire Works these paintings hark back to Tillyer's earlier experimentation with the grid structure and the mesh. In addition to this exciting group of new paintings we will show a small survey of Tillyer's works from the artist's 40-year career. Read more

Shirley Kaneda: New Paintings

14 Oct - 11 Nov 2006 Read more

Pia Fries: Schwarzwild

1 - 30 Jun 2006 In these new paintings, collectively entitled Schwarzwild (wild pig), Fries begins with a skeleton of imagery taken from black and white botanical illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647- 1717), details of which are screen-printed onto the hard wooden surface of the support. Read more