NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell and Frampton Co present Women Choose Women, an exhibition of women artists on view opening today through September 9, 2023 at Exhibition The Barn in Bridgehampton. Spanning the 1950s to today, the exhibition includes art and design works by Lynne Drexler, Elaine de Kooning, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Osborne, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Lillian Thomas Burwell, Susan Vecsey, Perle Fine, Mary Dill Henry, Jill Nathanson, Charlotte Park, Ethel Schwabacher, Ann Purcell, Yvonne Thomas, Carmen D’Apollonio, and Barbora Žilinskaitė.

With a shared vision for supporting women in the fields of art and design, this exhibition is curated by Christine Berry and Martha Campbell, co-founders of Berry Campbell, and Elena Frampton, principal of Frampton Co. Berry Campbell is known for bringing to light artists who were overlooked due to age, race, gender or geography, particularly women of Abstract Expressionism. Frampton Co focuses on contemporary art and design with emphasis on promoting emerging and undiscovered mid-career artists. “It is our aim to ensure women artists receive more than occasional exposure, and that their work is placed firmly beside their male counterparts,” says Christine Berry. “Having this exhibition in the Hamptons, a historically important artist community, allows us a unique opportunity to share our larger curatorial mission by introducing women artists who are deserving of more attention.”

Women Choose Women takes its name and curatorial theme from the seminal exhibition held at the New York Cultural Center in 1973. As the first large-scale museum exhibition of women artists in New York, also curated by a committee of women artists, the show made an impact both in the art world and beyond. Like its namesake, the 2023 exhibition was organized in an efficacious and cooperative spirit with the belief that advocacy for–and by–women in the arts is as necessary today as it was 50 years ago. The inaugural Women Artists Market Report, recently released by Artsy, found that of all works sold at auction between 2012 and 2022, only 6% were by female artists. In a study by Williams College, women only make up 13% of work in the permanent collections of eighteen major US museums. Continue Reading Christine Berry and Martha Campbell opened Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea, New York in 2013. The gallery has a fine-tuned program representing artists of post-war American painting that have been overlooked or neglected, particularly women of Abstract Expressionism. Since its inception, the gallery has developed a strong emphasis in research to bring to light artists overlooked due to age, race, gender, or geography. This unique perspective has been increasingly recognized by curators, collectors, and the press.

In September 2022, Berry Campbell moved to 524 West 26th Street. The 9,000-square-foot gallery houses 4,500 square feet of exhibition space, including a skylit main gallery and four smaller galleries, as well as two private viewing areas, a full-sized library, executive offices and substantial on-site storage space.

Frampton Co is an interior design studio and art advisory with an eye for the unexpected. Based in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, New York, the studio is led by Elena Frampton, who founded Frampton Co on Cinco de Mayo 2015 after nearly two decades of practicing at some of New York’s top firms and co-running a successful bi-coastal interior design studio.

Through its in-house art advisory service, Frampton Co helps clients deepen and discover the pleasure of collecting and living with art. The studio’s wholly-integrated vision for living artfully comes to life at Exhibition The Barn, the studio’s gallery in Bridgehampton. Curated by Elena Frampton, the rotating displays of fine art, furniture and collectible design are unbound by function or medium, including F Collection, the studio’s own label of original furniture designs.

Berry Campbell and Frampton Co
Women Choose Women
August 5, 2023 - September 9, 2023