Addison Rowe Gallery

About the Gallery
Addison Rowe Gallery, established in 1994, is a woman-owned, woman-run business established in Santa Fe New Mexico for over 30 years. As one of Santa Fe’s premier galleries, it has been a strong supporter of the Southwest modernist movement. The focus of Addison Rowe Gallery is secondary historic art focusing on the artists who came to New Mexico and were part of the important art colonies and development of modernist styles and expressions during the early 1900s. The gallery regularly exhibits artworks of American Modernists, the Transcendental Painting Group, the Taos Society of Artists, the Stieglitz group, as well as Southwest Moderns. Addison Rowe Gallery specializes in original paintings, abstract art and sculptures by historically significant American artists.

About the Presentation
Addision Rowe Gallery will present work by Emil Bisttram in a solo presentation at Independent 20th Century. This presentation offers a chronological overview of the work of Emil Bisttram, one of the founding members of the Transcendental Painting Group (1938–1945). Founded in New Mexico in 1938, the Transcendental Painting Group advocated a radical approach to art: the rejection of landscape and representation in favor of non-objective painting rooted in spiritual principles. The artists believed that form and color, freed from depiction, could directly express inner states, cosmic forces, and spiritual realities. Bisttram stands out within the group for the remarkable breadth of intellectual, spiritual, and scientific traditions he brought to his work. The theme of the spiritual in art is very strong within contemporary art and the work of Bisttram is even more relevant today and transcends time.