James Barron Art

About the Gallery
James Barron founded his art business in 1987 as a private art dealer and consultant, and established James Barron Art in 2010. He specializes in modern and contemporary American and European art. He exhibits regularly at art fairs including The ADAA Art Show, the Dallas Art Fair, the Outsider Art Fair, and Intersect Art and Design fairs

James Barron divides his time between Rome, Italy, and Kent, CT. He worked at Knoedler Gallery from 1980-85 with Post-War and Contemporary American art and at Jan Krugier Gallery from 1985-87, with the Marina Picasso Collection and Modern masterworks. He has sold Modern works by Picasso, Matisse, Arp, Giacometti and Pollock, as well as Contemporary art by Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt, Beverly Pepper, Jules Olitski, Alice Neel, Winfred Rembert, Norman Lewis, and Cy Twombly. Barron is equally adept in guiding both new and experienced collectors.

The gallery has an ongoing series of interviews with artists and art historians, reflecting a longstanding tradition of art historical scholarship.

About the presentation
James Barron Art’s group show will feature works by the late Moira Dryer, Beverly Pepper, and Laura de Santillana. Canadian-born Dryer (1957-1992) worked for years as a set designer, an experience that inflected her color-saturated paintings on wood. Dryer’s dialogue with modernist painting and abstraction will be juxtaposed with abstract works in steel and glass by Pepper and De Santillana, two maverick sculptors who worked in Italy for the majority of their careers. Pepper (1922-2020) produced outdoor sculptures, site-specific works, and Land Art exploring nature and matter, the passing of time, and ancient monuments. De Santillana (1955-2019), who was born in Venice to a line of glass-makers, committed herself to innovating glass techniques from 1999 until her death in 2019. During this period she created her signature series of standing flat glass forms containing nothing but “color and light”.