Stephen Pusey at 499 Park Avenue

The Lobby Gallery at 499 Park Avenue presents Spilling Genesis, an exhibition of seven paintings by New York-based artist Stephen Pusey, through September 2026. A special holiday reception will be held on Tuesday, December 9 from 5 - 7 PM in the lobby atrium at 59th st and Park Avenue. The exhibition is open to the public Monday - Friday from 9 AM - 5 PM and accompanied by a brochure featuring an essay by award-winning poet, critic, curator and publisher, John Yau. 

Pusey’s work explores the dynamic relationship between gesture, space, and language—his calligraphic brushstrokes flow in and out of indeterminate fields of color, creating rhythmic compositions that feel both spontaneous and meditative. Blurring the boundaries between painting and writing, structure and improvisation, Pusey transforms abstraction into a vivid expression of movement, intuition, and transformation. 

Elizabeth Gilfilen at 527 Madison

Installation view: Graft (2022) oil on canvas, 76 x 70 inches

527 Madison Avenue is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Brooklyn-based painter Elizabeth Gilfilen in the Lobby Gallery from June 10 – September 1, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, June 10 from 5–7 PM, at 54th Street and Madison Avenue. The show is open to the public 9 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Friday.

At once volatile, sophisticated, and atmospheric, Elizabeth Gilfilen’s airy and delightfully rough abstract oil paintings embody the tradition of abstract expressionist painters like Joan Mitchell. Utilizing oil sticks to add both texture and pigment on top of the paint, she embraces a sense of frenzy in her compositions, amplified by loose waves colliding with tighter lines. With their wild bursts of color and intuitive, gestural lines, Gilfilen’s paintings are both expressive and restrained—a palpable reflection of the artist’s hand.

Elizabeth Gilfilen is a visual artist based in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ and Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ. Her paintings and works on paper have been included in numerous group shows including Equity Gallery, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Bronx Museum. Residencies and fellowships include The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, Yaddo, The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Project Fellowship and The Bronx Museum of Art AIM Program, among others. Reviews of her work have been featured in ArtSpiel, Two Coats of Paint, The New Criterion, The Boston Globe, The Newark Star-Ledger and The New York Times. Gilfilen received her BFA from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and her MFA in Painting & Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

For inquiries about the work, please contact the artist at bethgilfilen@gmail.com. For more information about 527 Madison’s exhibitions, please contact Jay Grimm, who organizes the contemporary art program on behalf of 527 Madison at jgrimm@jaygrimm.com.

527 Madison Avenue is a boutique commercial office building located at the corner of 54th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. Completed in 1986, it was designed by celebrated architectural firm FxCollaborative. The property has recently completed lobby and elevator upgrades and is owned by an affiliate of Mitsui Fudosan America, the US subsidiary of Japan's largest real estate company, Mitsui Fudosan Co., LTD. 

Allison Gildersleeve at 860 Washington Street

860 Washington Street is now showing three works by New York-based painter Allison Gildersleeve in the lobby gallery through August 2025. The exhibition is open to the public from 9 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Friday.

Gildersleeve’s colorful and densely layered paintings blur the lines between abstraction and realism––sweeping gestural marks quickly become a tabletop or tree, only to fade away as they merge with a neighboring passage. Serving as portraits of the places she frequents, both urban and rural landscapes, the paintings morph and change just like they would in our memories. Gildersleeve is constantly revisiting and revising these works as an integral part of her process, illustrating that a place is never truly frozen in time.

Frank Webster at 527 Madison Avenue

527 Madison Avenue is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Frank Webster in the Lobby Gallery from January 9 – April 25, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, January 15, from 5–7 PM, at 54th Street and Madison Avenue. Presented in partnership with Isabel Sullivan Gallery, the show is open to the public 9 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Friday

Frank Webster is a devout chronicler of natural history. His numerous works capture the ephemeral and fragile qualities of our planet, simultaneously rendering us awestruck by their grandeur and sublime power. An intrepid and devoted explorer of the otherworldly, he bears witness through each brushstroke, exploring themes of memory, transformation, isolation, and melancholic yet rapturous experiences with landscapes. Webster works in the plein-air painting tradition of the 18th and 19th centuries, creating studies for these paintings directly in the landscape during his numerous expeditions and residencies worldwide.

Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Webster received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Some of the residencies he has been granted include the Arctic Circle Residency, Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland, the NES Artist Residency in Iceland, The Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, The MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn. He has participated in many group and solo exhibitions at museums and galleries, such as the Zimmerli Museum of Art, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Steffany Martz Gallery, the Parrish Art Museum, Blackston Gallery, and many others. In early 2022, Webster was commissioned to execute The Stone—a monumental Icelandic landscape—by the Durst Organization for the library for the newly constructed SVEN residential project in Long Island City, New York. Webster currently lives and works in Queens, New York.