November 3, 2022 - January 13, 2023

Leon Tovar Gallery is pleased to announce its new solo exhibition featuring the extraordinary works by newly represented artist: Omar Rayo – Larutan atur al. Considered a pop and op artist, Omar Rayo, facilitated throughout his career, a unique dialogue between Latin American visual culture and geometric abstraction.

September 7 - October 27 2022

Leon Tovar Gallery is pleased to present Luiz Sacilotto: The Resonance of Vision. Once described by the founder of the Ruptura group as the “main beam” on concretism in Brazil, the show highlights the work of Sacilotto and his influence as a towering figure in the history of twentieth-century Brazilian art.

May 5 - July 15, 2022

Leon Tovar gallery is pleased to announce its latest show “Invisible: A tale of ethereal lines,” highlighting the work of Jesús Rafael Soto.

The show touches upon Soto’s own experiments with vibrations produced by this simple sequencing of black and white parallel lines to also prioritize the present moment of perception, but in doing so powerfully illustrate the constantly shifting nature of our universe and of matter itself.

March 01 - April 02 2022

Leon Tovar Gallery's display is a multi-generational presentation that incorporates artwork from towering figures in the history of twentieth-century Brazilian art. In this dynamic display, visitors will see artwork that is characterized by a radical sense of openness—whether this openness constitutes a reconsideration and adaptation of European Constructivism, or the removal of the artistic object from its usual isolation in order to open it up onto the world.

January 22 - January 29 2022

For this year's presentation at Master Drawings New York, Leon Tovar Gallery celebrates the highly experimental and Surrealist-informed style of represented artist Agustín Fernández by presenting a solo show with a selection of large scale works on paper. The Artist practiced drawing alongside painting throughout his long career.

February 29th – August 31st, 2020

An encompassing exhibition that brings together some of the most recognizable names in art from Latin America, the show offers an inclusive range of artistic approaches, from the Impressionist sensibilities of Armando Reverón to the singular aesthetic of Fernando Botero. Compliments and conversations abound, giving form to inter-generational dialogues, stylistic parallels, and a wealth of innovative approaches.

February 29th – August 31st, 2020

Leon Tovar is pleased to announce Sightlines, currently on view at the Gallery’s East 75th Street location. Featuring a range of artists spanning several countries—from Venezuela to Argentina, Colombia, and Hungary— this exhibition is a careful consideration of the use of line and shape to cultivate readings of space that are beguiling, ambiguous, and ultimately enchanting.

January 25 – February 1, 2020

Building on the success of the Gallery’s fall 2019 survey on the work of Marcelo Bonevardi, Leon Tovar presents a focused examination of the artist’s works on paper. Executed in a variety of mark-making techniques, Bonevardi translates his interest in architectural spaces into haunting visions reminiscent of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s “Imaginary Prisons.” 

September 12th, 2019

Leon Tovar Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of When the Cedar Bar Met the School of the South: Reconsidering Bonevardi, the Gallery’s first solo presentation of Marcelo Bonevardi’s enigmatic paintings, drawings, and sculptures. A full appreciation of Bonevardi’s work must both highlight and celebrate the eclectic range of geographical and cultural references that informed the artist’s hugely syncretic practice.

May 4th – August 23rd, 2019

Inaugurating 2 East 75th street is the exhibition Outlines, featuring a selection of Latin American Modernism ranging from the optical to the kinetic and beyond. Highlights include works by Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005), Julio Le Parc (b. 1928), and Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923), each of whom developed practices that reconfigured the relationship between the viewer and the work of art

January 26th – April 19th, 2019

The Gallery’s debut display brings together a wide range of graphic practices found among the foremost draftsmen of twentieth-century Latin American Modernism. Though many of the Gallery’s selected artists found great success in the painting medium, drawing was an integral component of their larger bodies of work, and each produced innovative and technically exemplary works on paper. Latin American Master Drawings showcases the rich variety of approaches that many of the century’s central figures have found within the medium.

November 1st – December 21st, 2018

Leon Tovar Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its latest exhibition, Structured Rhythms. The exhibition showcases the work of three figures central to the history of Colombian Modernism. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Popayán-born Negret (1920–2012) and Villamizar of Pomplona (1922–2004) were staking their claim in a transitioning New York art world.

September 13th – October 19th, 2018

Leon Tovar Gallery announces the opening of Agustín Fernández: Hole in the Wall, the Cuban artist’s debut exhibition with the Gallery. Taking as its starting point the year 1972—the date of Fernández’s move to New York City—the exhibition will feature selections of his technically exemplary paintings, drawings, and collages.

August 23rd – December 21st, 2018

Fascinated with resolving tensions between vertical and horizontal movement, Martin Blaszko’s exhibition features Madi-inspired paintings as well as sculptures small in size but monumental in scale.

July 26th – August 31st, 2018

In bringing together an international selection of artists, the present exhibition pays tribute to the lineage of geometric abstraction and its diverse applications from the mid-twentieth century to the present.

April 26th – July 13th, 2018

A central figure in the development of geometric abstraction in Argentina, this retrospective presents paintings and sculptures from all eras of the Madi founder’s long career, bringing to the fore his tireless search for “invention.”

November 2nd – January 19th, 2018

Jorge Riveros: Emotional Geometries brings together the refined hard-edge sketches and paintings that the artist developed over the course of his long career, as well as recently realized paintings after studies made during the 1970s.

July 13th – August 8th, 2017

Intergenerational in scope, Brazil pays tribute to the country’s celebrated modern masters as well the work of a younger generation who extend the country’s rich artistic heritage.

June 27 & 28th, 2017

This exhibition brings together a wide selection of Jesús Rafael Soto’s best-known series to examine how his ceaseless investigations of space, matter, and time unfurled in many different forms.

March 2nd – May 31st, 2017

Featuring diverse approaches to geometric abstraction, the Gallery’s latest exhibition celebrates the referential and expressive richness of this mode of representation.

November 3rd – January 6th, 2017

Focusing on weight, tension, and suspension, Gravitas presents artworks that collaborate with gravity, or seek to defy it.

August 10th – September 23rd, 2016

In celebration of Leon Tovar Gallery’s 25th anniversary, Searching for Form highlights work by Latin American artists who challenged the formal limits of painting by breaking with the rectangular canvas.

May 6th – September 1st, 2016

One of Colombia’s most prominent painters working today, the New York-based artist Fanny Sanín has built her career on paintings filled with romantic and sonorous color harmonies, balanced against an architectonic approach to form.

February 10th — April 29th, 2016

Featuring works by Ruth Asawa, Gego, and Louise Nevelson among others, Shadow brings together an international selection of artists whose work inhabits the productive tension between mass and void, light and shadow.

September 21st, 2015 – January 29th, 2016

Leon Tovar Gallery presents a focused examination of the work of Colombian sculptor Edgar Negret, whose hard-edge aesthetics bridged disparate geographies and histories, ranging from New York’s urban environment to pre-Columbian material culture and myth.

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