{"id":113487,"date":"2025-08-27T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113487\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:07:12","slug":"gladstone-gallery-adds-peter-saul-hires-venus-over-manhattan-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113487\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladstone Gallery Adds Peter Saul, Hires Venus Over Manhattan Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGladstone Gallery<\/a> has secured a coup: the United States representation of Peter Saul<\/a>, the 91-year-old painter whose garish satirical canvases have made him one of America\u2019s longest-running provocateurs. At the same time, the gallery has appointed Anna Christina Furney, formerly a partner at Venus Over Manhattan<\/a>, as director. <\/p>\n

\n\tGladstone will share Saul\u2019s US representation with Michael Werner Gallery, which also represents the artist in the UK. <\/p>\n

\n\tSaul\u2019s career spans more than seven decades, defined by a refusal to conform to artistic fashion. Trained at the California School of Fine Arts and Washington University in St. Louis, he fused comic absurdity with painterly rigor, producing works that gleefully desecrate pop culture, art history, and political life. His paintings\u2014violent, grotesque, and funny\u2014have placed him outside easy categories, though institutions have caught up in recent years. The New Museum mounted a retrospective in 2020, and his work has been shown at major museums across Europe and the US, including the Pompidou, MoMA, the Met, and the Whitney. Saul remains both cult hero and institutional darling: a rare position for a nonagenarian still actively working.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFurney arrives at Gladstone with long-standing ties to Saul, having represented him for 14 years at Venus Over Manhattan, where she served as a director before becoming a full partner. She developed a reputation for ambitious programming there, staging landmark surveys for artists such as Robert Colescott, Jim Nutt, Joseph Elmer Yoakum, and Yuichiro Ukai. Before Venus, she worked with Simon and Michaela de Pury at Phillips auction house.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHer move comes at a moment of flux. Earlier this summer, Adam Lindemann<\/a>, the collector-turned-dealer who founded Venus in 2012, announced he would shutter the gallery and retreat to the collector\u2019s side. The announcement came after Tim Blum<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0snap decision<\/a>\u00a0to close his gallery and pursue a yet-to-be-seen nontraditional model. Shortly after,\u00a0Clearing Gallery\u2019s Olivier Babin<\/a>\u00a0announced that he too was bowing out of the game.<\/p>\n

\n\tVenus was born as a provocation: a dealer\u2019s platform that was at once mocked for its founder\u2019s conflicted role and praised for the quality of its shows. The gallery helped resuscitate interest in artists such as H.C. Westermann and Jack Goldstein, while also staging high-profile projects with Calder, Cattelan, and Saul himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Gladstone, which operates in New York, Brussels, and Seoul, the double hire\u2014an artist with institutional gravitas and a director with proven curatorial and market chops\u2014strengthens both its roster and its leadership. It also illustrates a familiar dynamic in today\u2019s market: galleries closing, talent dispersing, and bigger players consolidating power. In this instance, the result is the elevation of Saul and Furney under the Gladstone umbrella.<\/p>\n

\n\tCorrection, August 26, 2026: An earlier version of this article omitted that Peter Saul will continue his representation in the US and UK with Michael Werner Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gladstone Gallery has secured a coup: the United States representation of Peter Saul, the 91-year-old painter whose garish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[6187,228,226,227,229,88,73991,73992,37629,6186],"class_list":{"0":"post-113487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-adam-lindemann","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gladstone-gallery","15":"tag-peter-saul","16":"tag-tim-blum","17":"tag-venus-over-manhattan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}