{"id":201004,"date":"2025-10-15T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201004\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T04:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:30:09","slug":"olney-gleason-announces-representation-of-jackson-pollock-and-lee-krasner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201004\/","title":{"rendered":"Olney Gleason Announces Representation of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOlney Gleason, a new gallery opened this year by alums of the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/kasmin-gallery\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kasmin-gallery\" data-tag=\"kasmin-gallery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kasmin gallery<\/a>, will exclusively represent the work of pioneering Abstract Expressionist painters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/jackson-pollock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jackson-pollock\" data-tag=\"jackson-pollock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Pollock<\/a> and his wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/lee-krasner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lee-krasner\" data-tag=\"lee-krasner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Krasner<\/a> through the the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/pollock-krasner-foundation\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pollock-krasner-foundation\" data-tag=\"pollock-krasner-foundation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pollock-Krasner Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOlney Gleason, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/kasmin-closes-olney-gleason-opens-1234749018\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened earlier this year<\/a>, was founded by Nick Olney and Eric Gleason as a successor gallery to Kasmin, whose eponymous founder Paul Kasmin died in 2020. Kasmin had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/kasmin-gallery-announces-representation-of-jackson-pollock-krasner-foundation-1234718877\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">represented<\/a> Pollock\u2019s work since 2024, and Krasner\u2019s since 2017. During their time as senior staff at Kasmin, Olney and Gleason organized four exhibitions of Krasner\u2019s work; the gallery also supported a 2019 Krasner retrospective at the London\u2019s Barbican Centre, which traveled to Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, as well as the 2024 exhibition \u201cJackson Pollock: The Early Years, 1934\u20131947\u201d at the Picasso Museum in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-121500034.jpg\" alt=\"Actor Steve McQueen sitting astride a motorcycle in a publicity still for the 1963 film The Great Escape.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAccording to the gallery\u2019s press release, Olney Gleason will work with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation to promote both artists\u2019 work through gallery shows, scholarly publications, and support for museum exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEstablished in 1985 with a bequest from Lee Krasner, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation funds exhibitions and scholarship about Pollock and Krasner\u2019s art and supports visual artists through unrestricted individual grants and grants to museums and galleries for exhibitions and residencies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCaroline Black, Executive Director at the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, said in a statement, \u201cThe Pollock-Krasner Foundation celebrates our ongoing partnership with Eric and Nick at Olney Gleason, extending our nearly decade-long relationship with their team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA giant of 20th-century art and the face of Abstract Expressionism, Pollock adapted Surrealist automatic writing first to semi-figural paintings, and then to performative \u201cdrip\u201d canvases made between 1947 and his death, in a car crash, in 1956. While slower to gain the same level of fame as her husband, Krasner, her work\u2014particularly her nudes of the 1950s and swashbuckling abstractions of the 1960s\u2014have now been reassessed as equal to his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olney Gleason, a new gallery opened this year by alums of the former Kasmin gallery, will exclusively represent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,65263,87258,87259,87260,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-201004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jackson-pollock","14":"tag-kasmin-gallery","15":"tag-lee-krasner","16":"tag-pollock-krasner-foundation","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}