Bykert Gallery was a contemporary art gallery in

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between 1966Marden biography at Matthew Marks, retrieved November 12, 2008
/ref> and 1975, run by Klaus Kertess (1940 - 2016) and Jeff Byers who had been classmates at

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, class of 1958. The gallery originally was located at 15 West

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in Manhattan, (in the same space as the defunct

Green Gallery The Green Gallery was an art gallery that operated between 1960 and 1965 at 15 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City. The gallery's director was Richard Bellamy, and its financial backer was the art collector Robert Scull. Green Gallery ...

that closed in 1965); it later moved to East 81st Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues. Among the artists who were represented at Bykert are

Brice Marden Nicholas Brice Marden Jr. (October 15, 1938 – August 9, 2023) was an American artist generally described as minimalist, although his work has roots in abstract expressionism, color field painting. and lyrical abstraction. He lived and worked i ...

Chuck Close Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealism, photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits ...

Ralph Humphrey Ralph Humphrey (April 14, 1932 – July 14, 1990) was an American abstract painter whose work has been linked to both Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. He was active in the New York art scene in the 1960s and '70s. His paintings are best ...

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, and Dorothea Rockburne. Artists who showed there with solo exhibitions or in group shows include Jared Bark,

Bill Bollinger Bill Bollinger (July 15, 1939 – May 27, 1988) was an American artist. In the late 1960s, he was one of the foremost sculptors of his time, routinely mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse and Richa ...

, Robert Duran,

Richard Van Buren Richard Van Buren (born Syracuse, New York, 5 August 1937) is an American sculptor and painter. He is an artist who, throughout his lifetime, has tested the boundaries of what sculpture should look like. He was quite active in the New York art ...

, Peter Gourfain,

Alan Saret Alan Saret (born 1944, New York City) is an American sculptor, draftsman, and installation artist, best known for his Postminimalism wire sculptures and drawings. He lives and works in Brooklyn. Education Saret graduated from Cornell Universi ...

, Michael Goldberg, Ronnie Landfield, Gary Stephan, Deborah Remington,

Bob Neuwirth Robert John Neuwirth (June 20, 1939May 18, 2022) was an American folk singer, songwriter, record producer, and visual artist. He was noted for being the road manager and associate of Bob Dylan, as well as the co-writer of Janis Joplin's hit son ...

, Paul Mogensen, Judy Rifka, Arleen Schloss, Alan Uglow,

Barry Le Va Barry Edward Le Va (December 28, 1941 – January 24, 2021) was an American sculptor and installation artist. Trained in his native California, he lived and worked in New York City. Le Va was among the leading figures of post-studio and process ...

, Thornton Willis, and Joe Zucker. During the 1960s

Lynda Benglis Lynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941) is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. She maintains residences in New York City, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedaba ...

began her career by working for the Bykert Gallery as a secretary before launching her own successful artistic career; and during the 1970s

Mary Boone Mary Boone (born 1952) is an American art dealer and collector. As the owner and director of the Mary Boone Gallery, she played an important role in the New York art market of the 1980s. Her first two artists, Julian Schnabel and David Salle, b ...

began her career by working for the Bykert Gallery as a secretary before opening her own successful gallery.

References

External links

NYTimes obituaryArtNews Klaus Kertess obituary
* * Kertess, Klaus (2011)

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