About Us
ABOUT US
The story of Scaramouche was born in New York at the beginning of 2009. For seven years we presented an experimental program in our spaces in the Lower East Side of the city; here we introduced artists of diverse nationalities, often in their first solo shows in the United States and further inserted them into the American market through acquisitions and exhibitions in public institutions and museums.
The notable public and critical success is evident from reviews and spotlights garnered by major American press such as Artforum, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, Art Papers, The New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Time-Out NY, Artnet Magazine, Huffington Post and Modern Painters, among numerous international publications as well.
Now in our new exhibition space in Milan, Via Vezza d’Oglio 14, between Fondazione Prada and Fondazione ICA, Scaramouche Gallery, reinforced by new partnerships, is ready to reopen to the public with a renewed program of international scope.
Our first exhibition in the new location presents a vast selection of museum-caliber works by the American artist James Brown, born 1951 in Los Angeles and died tragically in a car accident together with his wife Alexandra Condon in Mexico in 2020.
Through more than 30 historical works, among them large-scale canvases, works on paper, wood incisions, polychromatic terracottas, and unique graphic works, the exhibition aims to celebrate and analyze the Californian artist’s imagery in the six most revealing and acclaimed years of his artistic pursuit.
In the years of the “New York Graffiti” he works side by side with artists from the Neo-Expressionist movement of the East Village like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel, Kenny Scharf, and Futura 2000. Toghether they exhibited at Tony Shafrazi Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery. In Italy Brown also worked in these years with Galleria Lucio Amelio, in Naples.