Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce its presentation for The Armory Show 2026, featuring a curated selection of modern and contemporary works spanning the last century. The booth will bring together significant historical and contemporary works across photography, painting, and mixed media.
In anticipation of the Museum of Modern Art’s upcoming exhibition, Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio (opening October 2026), the gallery will showcase rare photographs by Constantin Brâncuși. These works offer insight into Brâncuși’s use of photography as an extension of his sculptural practice, capturing the interplay of light, space, and form within his studio.
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Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957)
Endless Column, 1927
Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1927
15 1/4 x 19 1/4 in (38.7 x 48.9 cm)
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Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957)
View of the Studio, Eve, Plato, and the Golden Bird, before 1922
Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1922
Annotated in unknown hand on verso
15 1/2 x 11 5/8 in (39.5 x 29.6 cm)
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Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957)
Léda (Bronze poli, 1926), 1936
Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1936
Signed and annotated on verso
9 3/8 x 11 3/4 in (23.8 x 30 cm)
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For this year’s Armory Show, the gallery is pleased to present a survey of paintings and photographs spanning seven decades by Adger Cowans (b. 1936). A founding member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a seminal collective of Black photographers, and an important contributor to AFRICOBRA, the Chicago-based Black arts collective, Cowans has developed a wide-ranging practice across photography and painting. His richly textured and extensively layered early paintings were the subject of the gallery’s recent exhibition, Making His Mark: Seven Decades of Paintings by Adger Cowans. His work is held in numerous institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
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Adger Cowans (b. 1936)
Untitled, 1970
Acrylic on canvas
Signed and dated on verso
27 7/8 x 37 1/8 in (70.8 x 94.3 cm)
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Adger Cowans (b. 1936)
Blue Gold, 1999
Acrylic and gold powder on canvas
Signed, titled and dated on verso
41 1/8 x 43 1/8 in (104.5 x 109.5 cm)
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Adger Cowans (b. 1936)
Untitled, 1998
Acrylic on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
61 x 65 in (155 x 165.1 cm)
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Adger Cowans (b. 1936)
Self-Portrait (Shrouded, Masked, Free), 1973
Three gelatin silver prints, printed c. 1973
Each signed, titled, dated and numbered on verso
Each: 15 x 10 5/8 in (38.1 x 27 cm)
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Adger Cowans (b. 1936)
White Bolt Shimmer, 1991
Signed, titled and dated on verso
Acrylic on canvas
11 x 13 in (27.9 x 33 cm)
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The gallery will debut a new series of woven photographic works by Native American artist Sarah Sense. Integrating traditional Chitimacha and Choctaw basket-weaving techniques with photographic landscapes and archival imagery, Sense explores personal and political geographies. This presentation runs concurrently with her third solo exhibition at the gallery’s 20th Street location, Sarah Sense: Land, Line, Blood, Memory, which will be on view during The Armory Show.
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Sarah Sense (b. 1980)
New Orleans Shaft, 2026
Woven archival inkjet prints on Hahnemuhle bamboo paper and Hahnemuhle rice paper, beeswax, Arches watercolor paper, silk thread, cotton thread, artist tape, rivercane
Signed, titled and dated on mount recto and verso
Framed in a hand-made artist frame: 65 3/4 x 45 3/4 in (167 x 116.2 cm)
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Sarah Sense (b. 1980)
Montclair Mouse, 2024
Woven archival inkjet prints on Hahnemuhle bamboo paper and Hahnemuhle rice paper, tape, Arches watercolor paper, wax, cotton thread
Signed, titled and dated on verso
Framed in a hand-made artist frame: 44 5/8 x 64 5/8 x 2 1/4 in (113.3 x 164.1 x 5.7 cm)
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The gallery will also present two large-scale paintings by American painter and mixed-media artist Joe Zucker (1941–2024), whose work will be the subject of a forthcoming exhibition in 2027. Zucker’s practice was defined by an inventive investigation into the relationship between image, material, and the physical construction of painting. Joe’s Painting #125C (1965), from his early grid-based works, reflects his interest in the woven structure of canvas itself, while Regatta 3 (2016) transforms those concerns into maritime imagery, in which masts, sails, and water become analogues for easel, canvas, and paint. Bookending five decades of Zucker’s practice, the two works reveal the continuity underlying his constantly evolving visual language.
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Rounding out the presentation will be a stunning print of M. C. Escher’s iconic Day and Night (1938), a commanding Abstract Expressionist painting, Turbulent Air (1951), by Mary Abbott, and photographs by André Kertész, Larry Silver, Elger Esser, and Todd Hido.
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M.C. Escher (1898–1972)
Day and Night, 1938
Woodcut on Japan paper
Signed and annotated 'eigen druk' ('printed by myself') in pencil on recto
Initialed and dated in block15 3/8 x 26 5/8 in (39.1 x 67.6 cm)
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Mary Abbott (1921-2019)
Turbulent Air, 1951
Oil and mixed media on canvas
Signed and dated on recto
Signed and titled on verso34 x 50 in (86.4 x 127 cm)
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Elger Esser (b. 1967)
Montrond-les-Bains, Frankreich, 2012
Chromogenic print
Signed, titled and dated on verso
56 5/8 x 72 3/8 in (143.8 x 183.8 cm)
Edition of 7 + 1 AP (1/7)
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Aaron Siskind (1903-1991)
Providence (Grid of 16), 1986
Vintage gelatin silver prints, printed c. 1986
Signed, titled and dated on verso
Each Image: 14 x 14 in (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
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André Kertész (1894-1985)
Plate 23, June, 1979
Cibachrome, printed c. 1979
Signed with plate information on verso
10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
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André Kertész (1894-1985)
December 12, 1979
Cibachrome print, printed c. 1979
Estate stamp and annotations on verso
4 x 4 in (10.2 x 10.2 cm)
Edition of 50 (14/50)
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André Kertész (1894-1985)
January 8, 1980
SX-70 Polaroid
Dated on verso
4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in (10.8 x 8.9 cm)
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André Kertész (1894-1985)
Plate 38, May 3, 1979
Cibachrome, printed c. 1979
Plate information on verso
10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 50 (22/50)
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Michael Wolf (1954-2019)
Paris Rooftops #17, 2014
Digital C-Print
Estate stamp on verso
48 x 68 in (121.9 x 172.7 cm)
Edition of 9 + 2 AP (1/9)
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Michael Wolf (1954-2019)
Paris Rooftops (Portfolio), 2014
Digital c-prints in 12 parts
Signed on title page
Each Sheet: 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in (57.2 x 41.9 cm)
Edition of 12 + 3 AP
