View/read ->> online feature "The Art of Philip Gerstein" in:

Scene4 - International Magazine of Arts and Culture 

 Recent:  ~~  "A Solo in New York: My Interval Paintings"

 Other Examples:  ~~ "Music and Art, Art and Music" , Oct. 2023

                          ~~ "Not So Silent Spring", Mar. 2023

                        ​~~ "Abstraction, Reloaded", Jan.2023

                      ~~  May 2022 feature  ("Spring Bouquet of Minimalism")

                     ~~  Feb 2021 feature  ("To Cross the Rubicon")

                     ~~   July 2021 feature  ("Sometimes There Is Bliss")

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   GALLERY  REPRESENTATION

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LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York NY

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Array Contemporary,  Boston MA

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    UPCOMING / CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

 

Our Planet (with S.H.E.= Shared Habitat Earth),  Laconia Gallery, Boston MA, June 1 - August 2, 2025

    OPENING:  Fri. June 6, 6 - 8 pm

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Spotlight on ARTSY,  The Painting Center (online, juried),  New York NY -- April 2025-April 2026

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Beyond Horizon,  LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York, NY,  April 5 - 26, 2025

      NEW! --> Video review of the show!​

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Gorky and the Language of Drawing. Centennial Celebration,  Mosesian Center for the Arts,

    Watertown MA,  March 7 - April 25, 2025​​​​

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   SOLO (& 2-Person) EXHIBITIONS  /Selections 2015+/  

 

PHILIP GERSTEIN:  IN THE INTERVAL 

The Painting Center,  New York, NY,  Jan-Feb 2024

A review in Scene4 International Magazine "Long Live the King... of Prussia"

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UNFORCED ORDER: The Paintings of Jo Ann Rothschild and Philip Gerstein,   

LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York, NY,  Dec-Jan 2023-24

See also: YouTube Video 

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UNCHARTED TERRITORIES: Paintings of Matt Carrano and Philip Gerstein, 

Off Main Gallery,  Wellfleet MA (Cape Cod), (2023)

 

Sometimes There Is Bliss,  AMP: Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown MA (2021)

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The Color of Seasons:  Nature and Abstraction in the Paintings of Carolyn Newberger and Philip Gerstein,

(Expanded 2-person show) Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA.  (Scheduled Apr. 2020 -- cancelled due to Covid-19).

 View/order a 50-page EXHIBITION CATALOG   --Catalog reviewed 

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Sometimes There Is Bliss,  Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA  (2018)  --reviewed 

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Sacred Asymmetry, The Painting Center, Chelsea, New York, NY  (2017)  --reviewed

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Wild at Heart: Works on Paper & Other Adventures,  Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA  (2017)  --reviewed

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Recent Paintings,  Abstract Art Online / Galerie Cerulean   (2016). 

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Being There: Abstract Paintings of Philip Gerstein, Andre Zarre Gallery, Chelsea, NY, NY (2015)--reviewed

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¡ EXPERIMENT !    Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA   (2015)  --reviewed

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    GROUP SHOWS  /Selections  2011+/

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2024

Transcending Time,   LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York, NY

      --reviewed in WHITEHOT MAGAZINE  1/23/25 (Myles Fucci). See also:  Video review of the show

(CURATED/EXHIBITED:)  The Shape of Color -- 5 Abstract Artists:  Ellen Weider; Francie Lyshak;

Gordon Fearey; Jane Yudelman; Philip Gerstein /curator/,  Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville MA --  April 

     --reviewed in Cambridge Day!  --> (...The term “love letter” gets thrown around left and right

         in arts criticism, but it’d be reductive to call this exhibition a love letter to color. ... )   

         See also: Installation images (in Scene4 International Magazine) 

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2023

HARMONY: Art and Music (@ the Piano Factory),   Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA

Lemon Sky,   LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York, NY

Abstract Art: Contemporary Approaches,  Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown MA

The Painting Center Benefit (curated), The Painting Center online on ARTSY, New York NY 

Welcome to the Symbiocene,  ARTI Gallery, Marblehead MA  (w/S.H.E. - Shared Habitat Earth)

Totem and Taboo,   LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York, NY 

      --reviewed in TUSSLE MAGAZINE  5/3/23 (Stephen Gambello)

Sugar & Spice,  Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville MA 

Group Shows with S.H.E. (Shared Habitat Earth)  

      -- Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont MA

      -- Quincy Art Association, Quincy MA(CURATED/EXHIBITED:)

(CURATED/EXHIBITED:)  The Empty & the Full,  Array Contemporary online on ARTSY 

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2022

(CURATED/EXHIBITED:)   Space <--> Color <--> Movement: Lyrical Realism into Poetic Abstraction

     3-person show with Alexandra Rozenman & Jo Ann Rothschild 

     Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville MA --reviewed & reproduced 

INTERSTELLAR -- Between Stars (7th Anniversary Show)  LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York, NY

The Indivisible Spectrum: The Painting Center Invitational --  curated by JoAnne McFarland

     The Painting Center,  (Chelsea) New York, NY

Cosmic Storm  LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York, NY

     --reviewed  in Art511Mag  Mar 2022 ("'Cosmic Storm' at Lichtundfire", by Jonathan Goodman):

     "Philip Gerstein’s abstraction... -- highly sophisticated painting".

Emotional Landscapes  Array Contemporary online on ARTSY
Minimal Force  LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York, NY
Still Friends (Invitational)  Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston MA

Stratosphere: A 6-year Anniversary Exhibition   LICHTUNDFIRE, New York, NY

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2021

Drawing Challenge XXIII   Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC   online  Sept 

Group Show  AMP: Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown MA

Thoughts Produce Noise  Landau Gallery by Array Contemporary, Belmont MA

In Full Bloom   LICHTUNDFIRE , New York, NY --

    --reviewed on Piri Halasz' blog "From the Mayor's Doorstep" Aug. 14, 2021

     https://www.pirihalasz.com/blog/posts/39303 

12x12   PAAM  Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown MA

The Passage of Time  Array Contemporary at Moakley Federal Courthouse Gallery, Boston MA

Collective Consciousness    Array Contemporary at Beacon Street Gallery, Brookline MA

Drawing Challenge XXI   Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC   online  May 

Drawing Challenge XX    Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC   online Apr

Drawing Challenge XIX    Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC   online Mar

the world that has been given   Jason McCoy Gallery, New York NY,  on ARTSY

(re)Tell   HallSpace, Boston MA 

Drawing Challenge XVIII   Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC   online  Feb 

Drawing Challenge XVII   Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC   online  Jan

The Future Is Many Colors    Array Contemporary at Moakley Federal Courthouse, Boston MA

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2020

Spring Flash! - a Pop-Up Virtual Exhibition,  Equity Gallery, New York, NY

PAAM Show,   Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown MA

Droplets: Hallspace Drawing Project,  HallSpace, Boston MA

(CO-CURATED/EXHIBITED:)  The Future Is Many Colors,  Array Contemporary online

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2019

(CURATED/EXHIBITED:)  Sacred Asymmetry - Abstraction Boston/New York, HallSpace, Boston MA. 

      Exhibiting Artists:  Francine Tint, Jo Ann Rothschild, Susan Roth, Marjorie Minkin,

                                   Sarah Hinckley, Philip Gerstein/curator -- reviewed

That’s Cliché, or Not, Drawing Project,   HallSpace, Boston MA

Resist,   Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown MA

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2018

Sideshow Nation VI: The Greatest Show on Earth,  Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY --reviewed

PAAM Show,  Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown MA

B4 Peace: Building a Peaceable Community Art Invitational,

      (part of "Prospect 4: New Orleans Art Triennial"), New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans LA

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2017

Sideshow Nation V, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY  -- reviewed 

Inherent Vitality, 555 Gallery, South Boston, MA  -- reviewed

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2016

Invitational 3,  ArtHelix/SHIM, Bushwick, Brooklyn NY

Unusual Politics: The Madness of Reality,  (invitational) The Viridian Artists Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY

Small Works,  Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY  (juried by Richard Timperio)

Landscapes,   Temporary Storage Gallery, BFP Creative, Brooklyn NY

Winter Juried,  Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown MA  (juried by Gus and Arlette Kayafas,

      Gallery Kayafas, Boston MA) 

Sideshow Nation IV: Through the Rabbit Hole,  Sideshow Gallery (in collaboration with Life on Mars Gallery),

      Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY  -- reviewed

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2015

Sideshow Nation III: Circle the Wagons!!!   Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY  -- reviewed 

Summer Selections Show,  Hutson Gallery, Provincetown MA

In Sight,   Lunder Center for the Arts, Lesley University, Cambridge MA

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2014

Sideshow Nation II – the Alamo,   Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY  -- reviewed

21 & Counting: The Painting Center Turns 21,  The Painting Center, Chelsea, New York, NY 

25th International Juried Exhibition,   Viridian Artists Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY

      (juried by Katherine Brinson, Curator at the Guggenheim Museum)  -- reviewed

Summer Show,    Hutson Gallery, Provincetown MA

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2013

Sideshow Nation,  Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

Summer Show,   Hutson Gallery, Provincetown MA.

Off the Wall,   Danforth Art Museum, Framingham MA (juried by Dina Deitch,        Curator of Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum)

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2012

Summer Show,   Joyce Chasan Fine Art / Artsource International, New York, NY

12th Annual Invitational,   Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY  -- reviewed

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2011

(CURATED/EXHIBITED:) Reaching for the Sky: 4 Artists Working w/Color,  Hutson Gallery, Ptown MA --reviewed

Juried Exhibition,  Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown MA (juried by Allison Kemmerer, Addison Gallery of American Art)

Juried Show,  Danforth Art Museum, Framingham MA (selected by Katherine French, Museum Director) 

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  CURATORIAL PROJECTS / WRITING ON ART:

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WRITING/PUBLISHING:   “The Art of Philip Gerstein” (Oct 2020 – June 2024 monthly; 2025+ occasional):

 Regular online feature in Scene4 - International Magazine of Arts and Culture. (See above.) 

Example: "Philip Guston in Boston", (Oct 2022) -- extensive review of Boston MFA show, 9 illustrations.

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CURATED/EXHIBITED: The Shape of Color -- 5 Abstract Artists:

Ellen Weider; Francie Lyshak; Gordon Fearey; Jane Yudelman; Philip Gerstein /curator/

Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville MA,  April 2024

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CO-CURATED/EXHIBITED: [2-Person]  UNFORCED ORDER: The Paintings of Jo Ann Rothschild and Philip Gerstein,   

LICHTUNDFIRE,  New York, NY,   Dec-Jan. 2023-24

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CURATED/EXHIBITED: The Empty & the Full  (Jan-Apr 2023)  Array Contemporary on ARTSY.

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CURATED/ORGANIZED/EXHIBITED:  -- (3-person show; Jan-Feb 2022), 

"Lyrical Realism into Poetic Abstraction",  Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville MA. 
( Exhibiting Artists:) Alexandra Rozenman, Jo Ann Rothschild, Philip Gerstein --
Reviewed/reproduced in  ArtScope Magazine,  "Highly Permeable Beings: Rozenman,

Gerstein & Rothschild Align at Brickbottom", Jan/Feb 2022, p.40-43, 8 illustrations (James Foritano).

       --view Installation images

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CO-CURATED/EXHIBITED: "The Future Is Many Colors"  (2020)  Array Contemporary on ARTSY.

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CURATING/EXHIBITING project:   "Out of This World: Sci-Fi & Fantasy in Art",  

(Scheduled Sep.2020 - postponed by Covid), Maud Morgan Art Center, Cambridge MA

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CO-WROTE/PRODUCED/PUBLISHED:  “The Color of Seasons: Nature and Abstraction

in the Paintings of Carolyn Newberger and Philip Gerstein”  (Spr/Sum 2020): 

50 p. 32 color ill. CATALOG of Apr 2020 Boston exhibition. View/order EXHIBITION CATALOG.

The Catalog reviewed/reproduced by Piri Halasz on her art blog "From the Mayor's Doorstep" Dec. 1, 2020.  

(Also INCLUDED: award-winning Essay “Parallel Paths That Intersect” by Brian George -- subsequently 

PUBLISHED w/my introduction & images in  Scene4 - International Magazine of Arts and Culture ).

 

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CURATED/PUBLISHED: “What We Have Wrought: Photographs of Mags Harries, Neal Rantoul, Eleanor Steinadler”, (Apr 2019)  3-person invitational photography show, Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA.  

PUBLISHED: extensive Curatorial Statement (w/images).  

Recommended/reproduced: “Best Photo Picks 4/19”, online Boston photo magazine What Will You Remember?

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CURATED/ORGANIZED/EXHIBITED:  “Sacred Asymmetry -- Abstraction Boston/New York”  (12/2018 – 1/2019)

HallSpace, Boston MA.  (Exhibiting Artists:)  Francine Tint, Jo Ann Rothschild, Susan Roth, Marjorie Minkin,

Sarah Hinckley, Philip Gerstein.  Musical & dance performances paired with specific artworks.

Featured/recommended - The Boston Globe, Dec.23, 2018 (Cate McQuaid).    INSTALLATION VIEWS

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CURATED/EXHIBITED/PUBLISHED: “Reaching for the Sky: 4 Artists Working with Color” (5-6/2011),

Hutson Gallery, Provincetown, MA.   

PUBLISHED: Color Essay (on history of color in Modernism), in The Provincetown Magazine, May 19, 2011, p.28-31.

The Essay also won a competition, as one of two essays PUBLISHED as:  

Gerstein, Philip. "Art of Color: Beauty in art comes in so many forms; art of color is a special case of it",

International Painting Annual 4. 1st. Cincinnati: Manifest Press, 2014. Print

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