Exhibitions

Similitudes: Color, Form, Friendship

New York, United States

A dialogue of color and weight where Helen Frankenthaler’s ethereal canvases meet Anthony Caro’s rhythmic steel forms.

Exhibition view

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Exhibition view © Yares Art

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Also featuring: Anthony Caro

The Movement

Contemporary Art, Contemporary photography, Painting

ArtLovers Tip

Look closely for the 1972 letter where Frankenthaler playfully suggests they make a sculpture together; it captures the warmth behind their rigorous artistic debate.

Exhibition Highlights - What you'll see

This exhibition traces a five-decade friendship between American painter Helen Frankenthaler and British sculptor Anthony Caro, two titans who redefined abstraction. Bound by a shared language of open space and chromatic intensity, their bond transformed personal respect into a quiet, creative revolution that blurred the lines between flat canvas and heavy steel.

You're watching the weight of metal dissolve. Large-scale steel sculptures like Larry's Land sit directly on the floor, their painted green surfaces echoing the fluid, soaking washes of color in Frankenthaler’s Acres. Between the looming sculptures and the expansive canvases, the air feels charged with the intimacy of their letters and postcards, making the gallery feel less like a museum and more like a shared studio.

Worth the trip

  • Rare Synergy: This is the first exhibition to explicitly position the artists' friendship as the primary engine for their aesthetic breakthroughs.
  • Archival Intimacy: Personal correspondence and photographs provide a vulnerable, human backdrop to these otherwise monumental works of modern art.
  • Material Dialogue: Witnessing Caro's Table Piece series alongside Frankenthaler's Saturday Night reveals surprising similarities in how they both navigated surface and edge.

How to experience it

Move slowly between the three-dimensional steel structures and the flat canvases, looking for where a curve in the metal mimics a brushstroke. The scale here demands physical engagement; walk around the sculptures to see how they change against the horizon of the paintings. Afterward, find a quiet spot nearby to write a postcard to a friend—an homage to the lifelong correspondence that sustained these two masters.

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