MARY GRIGORIADIS
Isfahan, 1973
Oil and acrylic on raw linen
66 x 66 in.
167.6 x 167.6 cm
JCG15294
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Tutankhamen's Repose, 1976
Oil on linen
66 x 66 in.
167.6 x 167.6 cm
JCG15295
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Fancy Free 6, 1978
Oil pastel on paper
14 x 16 3/4 in.
35.6 x 42.5 cm
JCG15290
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Ravenna Eve, c. 1979 - 80
Oil on linen
66 x 65 3/4 in.
167.6 x 167 cm
JCG15296
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Byaz, 1980
Oil on linen
66 x 66 in.
167.6 x 167.6 cm
JCG15297
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Prairie Song, 1980
Oil on raw linen
66 x 80 in.
167.6 x 203.2 cm
JCG15298
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Untitled, 1980
Oil pastel on paper
20 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.
51.4 x 73 cm
JCG15291
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Night Bloom, 1983
Oil on canvas
66 x 69 5/8 in.
167.6 x 176.8 cm
JCG15299
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Portal Series, 1984
Oil on canvas
66 x 72 in.
167.6 x 182.9 cm
JCG15300
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Dragon Slayer, c. 1985
Oil on canvas
65 3/4 x 71 3/4 in.
167 x 182.2 cm
JCG15301
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Untitled, c. 1988 - 1989
Pastel on black paper
27 x 38 3/4 in.
68.6 x 98.4 cm
JCG15289
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Portal #10, 1994
Oil pastel on paper
22 1/4 x 39 in.
56.5 x 99.1 cm
JCG15288
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Portal #16, 1995
Oil pastel on paper
22 1/4 x 30 in
56.5 x 76.2 cm
JCG15286
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Portal #12, 1995 and 1997
Oil pastel on paper
22 1/4 x 30 in.
56.5 x 76.2 cm
JCG15287
MARY GRIGORIADIS
Portal #38, 2003 - 2008
Oil pastel on paper
22 1/4 x 29 3/4 in.
56.5 x 75.6 cm
JCG15285
James Cohan is pleased to present an exhibition of works by New York-based artist Mary Grigoriadis (b. 1942, Jersey City, New Jersey), on view at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location from June 22 through July 28, 2023. Mary Grigoriadis is organized in partnership with Accola Griefen Fine Art, New York, and features paintings and works on paper from the 1970s through the early 2000s.
For over four decades, Mary Grigoriadis pushed the bounds of oil painting by pursuing new approaches to composition, color, and ornament in her works on raw linen and canvas, which reveal an orchestration of concise brushstrokes. Bridging multiple art movements in mid-century New York, Grigoriadis was a founding member of A.I.R., the first women’s art gallery in the United States, and exhibited as part of the Pattern and Decoration (P+D) group. P+D elevated the motifs of decoration to fine art, and Grigoriadis married these references with the formal, exacting sentiments of a minimalist painter. Within this historical context, her painterly language and style demonstrate a unique approach to art-making—one that considered rigorous, process-based painting alongside the liberatory initiatives of her time.
