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. 

Eric Aho at 527 Madison Avenue

527 Madison Avenue is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Eric Aho in the Lobby Gallery from September 10–November 22, 2024. Located at 54th Street and Madison Avenue, an opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 19, from 5–7 PM, and the show is open to the public 9 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Friday. Presented in partnership with DC Moore Gallery, this will be the twenty-ninth exhibition in 527 Madison’s ongoing program showcasing noteworthy contemporary artists, organized by Jay Grimm Art Advisory.

Eric Aho is an American painter known for his immersive paintings of the natural world. With color and form that bridges the way we experience nature in totality, Aho’s canvases at every scale, occupy a zone of perception between sober realism and ecstatic abstraction. While Aho works from his own impressions and memories of the landscape, the artist also draws upon major pillars of art history—including De Kooning, Goya, Homer, and Constable—to define his compositions. He’s been called “One of the leading painters of landscape and the environment of his generation.”

Aho studied at the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London, England and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. In 1989, he participated in the first exchange of scholars in over thirty years between the U.S. and Cuba. He completed his graduate work at the Lahti Art Institute in Finland supported by a Fulbright Fellowship in 1991-92 and an American-Scandinavian Foundation grant in 1993.

His works have been exhibited and collected widely in the United States and abroad and can be found in the permanent collections of the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; Denver Art Museum, CO; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase; New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; and the Oulu Museum of Art, Finland among others. Eric Aho was elected National Academician of the National Academy Museum in 2009. He lives and works in Saxtons River, Vermont.

For inquiries about the work, please contact DC Moore Gallery at info@dcmooregallery.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.