The permanent collection of the Chelsea Art Museum includes many European abstract artists often labeled as Informel, including Corpora, Lakner, Kirkeby, Millares, Miotte, Santomaso, Schumacher, Stöhrer, Thieler, Vedova. The collection also holds American abstract artists Francis, LaNoue, Mitchell, Motherwell, Riopelle; a large body of works by the Affichiste Mimmo Rotella; and works by Jean Arp, Olivier Debré, Jean Fautrier, and Ellen Levy. Sculptors in the collection include Bernar Venet, Pol Bury, Kanter, Jeff Beer, Johannsen and Zadkine. The collection also has an important selection of rare books and works on paper. Growing the collection is an important priority for the Museum.
The Chelsea Art Museum is located on the corner of 11th Avenue and West 22nd Street in the Chelsea section of New York City.
Donna Clovis is an artist and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing.
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Slome’s passion, intelligence, artistic eye, and extraordinary level of energy for art make her an invaluable presence at the Chelsea Art Museum. Her ideas and execution of shows as a Chief Curator make her larger than life.
Insight
The Insight Series, created by Slome at the Chelsea Art Museum in March 2006, feature artists who have not had a solo exhibition in a New York museum. Located in the more intimate galleries on the second floor of the Chelsea Art Museum, Insight brings first views of outstanding talented artists and fresh audiences interested cutting edge work The flexibility of smaller shows allows curators to produce exhibitions within a short time period. The Insight exhibitions continue the Chelsea Art Museum’s mission of showcasing international art while providing a cross section of media: sculpture, performance, installation, drawing, painting, and video.
Exhibitions presented in the Insight series include: Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Death Becomes Her, Michael Bevilacqua, Drawing Under the Influence: Fables of the Reconstruction, and Federico Uribe, Human Nature. Upcoming Insight exhibitions include Gil Shachar in Seeing is Not Believing.
The Chelsea Art Museum also serves as the home of the Jean Miotte Foundation, dedicated to archiving, preserving, presenting and making available for exhibitions the work of Jean Miotte. Rotating selections of Miotte’s work are shown on a regular basis, as are selections from the permanent collection which includes rare holdings of such artists as Pol Bury, Mimmo Rotella, and J.P. Riopelle.