selection of events related to Douglas Abdell work
last 3 years
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Last Solo Show
London, United Kingdom

Ab-Anbar Gallery, London
34 Mortimer St.

September 12th - November 2nd, 2024
Opening Reception (with artist present), September 12th, 5-8 pm
Exhibition tour, October 12th, 5-6 pm
an image from the exhibition at Ab-Anbar Gallery in London

KRYAD bronze sculpture and PHOENAES paintings showed on "Douglas Abdell Intervalism and Other Mathematics" in 2024 at Ab-Anbar Gallery, London.

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Institutional Exhibition
Geneva, Switzerland
MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva

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Retrospective
London, United Kingdom
Ab-Anbar Gallery, London/Teheran

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Virtual Exhibition
Madrid, Spain


The Madrid space that has housed the artworks of Douglas Abdell from the FG collection since 2011 presents on this website its permanent exhibition with a virtual tour of five exhibition rooms that group together by series and period all the works in the collection and some elements of the archive.


1968-1970

1976-1980

1982-1984

1986-2003

current works

ROOM 1: University period bronze sculpture (1968) and drawings from the Pre-Yad series (1970).
ROOM 2: The initial part of the first period of the Aekyad series. Sculptures and drawings from 1976 to 1980.
ROOM 3: A collage dedicated to the football players of Bari exhibited with artworks from the three consecutive aesthetics of the Phoenaes series (1982), the New York City period (1983) and the Intervalism series (1984).
ROOM 4: The Phoenician/Punic period. Artworks from 1986 to 2003.
ROOM 5: Current works of Douglas Abdell. Artworks since 2020 from the second Aekyadic period.
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Last Group Show
London, United Kingdom


Uncharted Echoes

34 Mortimer St., London
September 7 - 30, 2023
exhibition curated by Bartomeu Mari
opening of the Ab-Anbar Gallery exhibition space in London’s Fitzrovia


image (detail) of Douglas Abdell's diptych exhibited at the group exhibition in Ab-Angab Gallery, London

Two details of Queens Court, 1983. Mixed media on wood exhibited at Ab-Anbar Gallery London

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Auctions
United States
Among the latest auctions in the United States are two works by Douglas Abdell belonging to the same period of work:


image of the painting up for auction
2022, Contemporary Curated /LOT:129
Eville
1983
oil, acrylic, marker, collage on wood panel
136.0 x 195.0 cm (53½ x 76¾ in)
2024, The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia /LOT:94
One Sees, One's Blind
1982
oil on canvas
27.9 x 34.6 cm (11 x 13 5/8 in)
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Digitization
Digitization of Douglas Abdell's Personal Archives


Since December 2023 the FG collection has been promoting and producing the digitization of Super-8 reels, VHS cassettes and slides from Douglas Abdell's personal archive now playable from "digitized video library" on this website or from the YouTube channel of the artist. www.youtube.com/@douglas.abdell


last video digitized:

日本テレビ - NTV Nippon Television, 11 P.M. SHOW (August 31, 1983): Douglas Abdell paints in his studio 458 Broadway, New York City.