Stux + Haller Gallery

Riding on the high tide of success in its primary market representation of emerging contemporary artists, in 1990 the gallery expanded its operations to include a new space, dubbed Stux Modern, in order to engage art historically significant work. The inaugural show for this new endeavor was “Abstract Expressionists: Studio 35/Downtown,” a select but powerful array of early works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell. The inspiration for Stux Modern arose in Stefan’s conviction that there was a real need for a masterworks gallery downtown, as a way to provide deeper historical context for the contemporary work presented by the gallery.