Max Protetch Gallery: 1969-2009

From 1969 until 2009, Max Protetch’s gallery―first in Washington, DC, and then in New York City―was a vibrant gathering place for art, architecture, politics and ideas. This publication documents the influence the Max Protetch Gallery had in the art world over the course of forty years, three cities, eight gallery spaces, and nearly five-hundred exhibitions. To understand the gallery’s history is to understand important moments in post-war and contemporary art history and the formative years of so many influential artistic voices. Richly illustrated with previously unpublished materials from the gallery’s archive, this volume provides insight into the early careers of some of contemporary art’s most enduring figures.

Max Protetch Gallery advocated for Minimalism, Conceptual, and Pop art in the 1970s; architecture in the late ’70s and 1980s; and beginning in the 1990s, a broad range of contemporary art, including from China. Over its forty year history, the gallery represented and exhibited artists such as Vito Acconci, Siah Armajani, Alice Aycock, Jo Baer, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, On Kawara, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Robert Mangold, Marilyn Minter, Thomas Nozkowski, Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham, David Reed, and Betty Woodman; and architects such as Michael Graves, Tadao Ando, Peter Eisenmann, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Samuel Mockbee, Aldo Rossi, and Robert Venturi.