Brooke Alexander Gallery began, in 1968, with the publication of two Josef Albers prints, I-S A and I-S B. These two strong examples of Albers' work set the aesthetic matrix that has guided the gallery vision to this day.

Josef Albers has long been hailed as a master of modern art, since this days at the famed Bauhaus, first as a student and then as a master teacher. Emigrating to the United States in the 1930s, Albers continued to teach and inspire students for the rest of his career. In this capacity he influenced many student artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Eva Hesse, at major art schools such as Yale University and Black Mountain College. His texts on color theory are primary reading even today.

As an artist, Albers strictly practiced what he preached. The color balance experiments he began in his Variants painting series fully blossomed with the Homage to the Square series of oil on masonite paintings, which have come to symbolize his oeuvre. Josef Albers also explored dimensional and structural relationships in a number of drawings, prints, and engraved vinylite panels called Structural Constellations.

Selected Josef Albers exhibitions at Brooke Alexander Gallery:

Josef Albers / Ken Price, February - June 2010

Portraits & Portfolios, January - March 2008

Modulated Abstraction, October - December 2006

Josef Albers / Donald Judd: Structure & Color, February - May 2005

Josef Albers / Naum Gabo / Jackson Pollock: Prints from the 1940s and 1950s, November - December 1994