Krakow Witkin Gallery

BOSTON, MA

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Krakow Witkin Gallery featurescontemporary art of all media by emerging and established regional, nationaland international artists as well as representing several estates. Theoverallfocus is on Minimal, reductivist and conceptually-driven works that have beenmade from 1950 to the present. Barbara Krakow first opened a gallery in1959, exhibitingEllsworth Kelly as early as 1965, Sol LeWitt in 1971 and beingthe first gallery in the US to show Joseph Beuys. _ Since 2004, Barbara Krakow haspartnered with Andrew Witkin and in 2017,the gallery's name changed to KrakowWitkin Gallery. Krakow Witkin Gallery co-represents the estates of Sol LeWitt andFred Sandback. Since the 1980's, Krakow Witkin Gallery has published catalogue raisonnésofnumerous artists' prints, such as those by Kiki Smith, Sol LeWitt andmost recently, Mel Bochner. _ Located on Boston's NewburyStreet, Krakow Witkin Gallery presents two exhibitions simultaneously, one inthe larger gallery and one in the smaller space. These shows changeeverysix weeks. Along with this programming, the gallery has an ongoingproject,One Wall, One Work,where a single work is exhibited on anisolated wall, thus providing artistsand viewers the experience of seeing anisolated work (often-times some form of installation), as well as the smallerand larger exhibitions in the other two spaces. This spectrum ofviewingopportunities is a key part of Krakow Witkin Gallery's mission to not only present andpromote artists and artworks it believes in, but to help provide enlighteningexperiences for those ofvarying knowledge- and experience-bases.