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Gregory Amenoff, “Arc,” 2006, oil on panel, 20 by 26 inches.

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GREGORY AMENOFF PAINTINGS AT ALEXANDRE GALLERY w/1 cut

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NEW YORK CITY — Alexandre Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Gregory Amenoff, on view through May 31.

This show includes more than 20 new paintings and is the gallery’s first show of Amenoff’s work. An illustrated catalog with text by Trevor Winkfield accompanies the exhibition.

Amenoff’s work is rooted in the long tradition of landscape painting. These are not paintings of specific observed sites; instead the psychic possibilities of imagined places are described. The viewpoint is of an implied figure looking into a highly imagined world.

Bodies of water (often the sea), mountains, and other rocky and imagined protuberances — places where violent tectonic action has occurred — often describe spatial experience. Also present are highly structural foregrounded shaped — faceted forms that muscularly twist their way through and into the pictorial space.

Amenoff (b 1948) lives in New York and New Mexico. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and Tiffany Foundation.

He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than 30 museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He served as president of the National Academy of Design from 2001 to 2005.

The gallery is in the Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street. For information, 212-755-2828 or www.alexandregallery.com.