Berry Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce a special exhibition of paintings by RAYMOND HENDLER from March 15 through April 14, 2018. This is Berry Campbell’s third solo exhibition of Hendler’s work. After focusing on particular periods of the artist’s oeuvre, the gallery has curated a small survey of the artist’s entire career. A first-generation action painter, RAYMOND HENDLER (1923–1998) started his career as an Abstract Expressionist in Paris. In the years that followed, he played a significant role in the movement, both in New York, where he was the youngest voting member of the New York Artist’s Club and a friend of Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Harold Rosenberg, and in Philadelphia, where he ran an avant-garde gallery between 1952 and 1954. Over the course of his career, his work evolved from abstract gestural works to abstracted words and shapes, which revealed a freshness, vitality, and high-spiritedness unparalleled in the New York postwar art world.