In the lead-up to Garth Greenan Gallery’s relocation to SoHo this fall, the gallery will stage a series of special, appointment-only exhibitions at its 529 West 20th Street space. For the first of these Spotlight presentations, the gallery has assembled a selection of three rarely seen works by Allan D’Arcangelo. Encompassing sculpture, representational painting, and geometric abstraction, these works differently depict the artist’s most iconic and enduring subject: the road. They include Day and Night (Rear View Mirror and Windshield) (1970), an assemblage made from found objects and glass; the painting Untitled (1982); and the monumental abstraction Constellation #111 (1971).

The largest and most prominent of the works on view, Constellation #111, derives from a body of work that was first displayed at New York’s Marlborough Gallery in 1971. Representing a decisive break from the explicitly Pop approach for which D’Arcangelo had been known, the Constellation paintings depict spatially complex arrangements of striped highway barriers against voidlike, monochrome grounds. For Constellation #111—which ranks among the largest and most powerful of these works—D’Arcangelo uses a beautiful, burnt-Sienna palette, symmetrical composition, and imposing scale to quietly confront viewers with a dazzling array of Escher-esque visual conundrums. Writing in the New York Times, critic Peter Schjeldahl celebrated this body of work, writing that the artist had become “more and more a painter of, if you will, his own spiritual condition.”

About the artist
A major midcentury artist, printmaker, and sculptor, Allan D’Arcangelo (1930–98) was celebrated for his coolly detached depictions of highways, industrial landscapes, and transmission lines. Though associated with American Pop, his work is equally indebted to the tradition of landscape painting. D’Arcangelo’s cold, overtly unnatural portrayals of America’s built environments are at once desolate visions of postwar consumption and connection and oblique meditations on the topography of an accelerating world.

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