Stux Gallery Program
During the recent past, Stux Gallery has concentrated on exhibiting mid-career and emerging artists ranging from painting and photography to sculpture, installation, and performance artwork. Within the last year and a half, Stux Gallery began a program called “Video Windows” whereby we showcase the video work of international artists. The thrust of Stux Gallery’s overall program is to cover a broad spectrum of artists from the United States, Europe, the Far East,the Middle East, and Africa while maintaining eclectic, modernist aesthetics of the highest quality with an element of surprise within the formal aspects of the chosen medium.
Stefan Stux Gallery – A Brief History
1980 – Present
Stefan Stux, the president and directorof the gallery, was born in 1942 in a part of Austro-Hungary known today asWestern Romania. As far back as he can remember he was fascinated by the visual arts. He came to the USA in 1964 at the age of 22. Ten years later,he earned a doctorate at New York University. Three years later, he was a member of the faculty of Harvard University. At the age of 38, he felt compelled to follow his childhood passion for art and in 1980 opened his first gallery located in Boston, together with his late artist-wife Linda.
Within a span of 3 years, Stux Gallery became according to Art in America, “the hottest gallery in town (Boston).” During those early years, Stefan discovered Doug and Mike Starn, twin photographers who went on to become an international sensation. Stux Gallery received “Best of Boston” awards by Boston Magazine and Boston Globe for three consecutive years between 1983 and 1985 for its gallery program and the artists presented.
The year of 1986 marked the inaugural of the Stux Gallery in New York, a large gallery located in the center of SoHo. Stux Gallery received the “Year’s Best” in 1988 from The New York Times. Monographs on Stefan and Linda Stux appear in the mainstream business magazine “Manhattan,Inc.” under the heading “Stefan and Linda Stux are making art history.” Next discoveries include first exhibits with currently internationally famous painter Fabian Marcaccio followed by, now famous, photographers Vik Muniz and the hugely controversial Andrès Serrano. During those days, Stefan Stux forged close relationships with the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York with whom he had joint exhibitions of the works of Dougand Mike Starn. Stefan Stux Gallerywas also collaborating with a whole array of international galleries, such as Krinzinger Gallery (Vienna), Micheline Swajcer Gallery (Antwerp), Ascan Crone Galerie (Hamburg), Kicken Pauseback Galerie (Köln), Galerie Hans Mayer (Dusseldorf), Mayor Rowan Gallery (London), Galerie Barbara Farber (Amsterdam), Akira Ikeda Gallery (Tokyo), and Seibu Gallery (Tokyo/Oasaka).
In 1989 Stux Gallery expanded again and created a new division dedicated to showcasing historic exhibits by American modern masters. Thematic shows encompassed Abstract Expressionists-Studio 35/Downtown with work by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, FranzKline, Mark Rothko, Hans Hoffman, Robert Motherwell and Joan Mitchell, followed by an American pop art show with painters including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and finally an exhibition of early Russian avant garde andcounter-cubism including works by Lissitzky,Tatlin, Chasnik, and others. In 1989, Stux Gallery organized a major retrospective, the first in the U.S., of the work of German painter Gerhard HÅ“hme, close colleague of Joseph Beuys and teacher of Sigmar Polke.
By 1996, Stux Gallery was amongst the first wave of galleries to move to Chelsea (on West 20th Street). The new, large physical environment created astrong new growth. The gallery again discovered artists who are now well-known internationally, with names such as Inka Essenhigh, Su-En Wong,Jennifer Reeves, and Jay Davis.
Currently Stux Gallery has been concentrating on the works of photographers Manabu Yamanaka (Japan), Margi Geerlinks (Holland), Iké Udé (Nigeria/USA), Michael Timpson (Ireland/USA), andpainters Thordis Adalsteinsdottir(Iceland/USA), James Richards (LosAngeles), Angelina Nasso(Australia/USA), Nicky Nodjoumi(Iran/USA), James Busby (USA), Heide Trepanier (USA), and Darren Wardle (Australia/USA) and thesculpture of Clay Ervin (USA). Within the last few years an ambitious video program has been introduced into the gallery. We have exhibitedapproximately 30 different video artists during this period.
Amongst the most exciting and newest additions to the gallery isone of the original founders of OPtical Art, Julian Stanczak, with whom the gallery is planning a major retrospective exhibit highlighting his art of the past 40 years.
