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Adam Baumgold Gallery presents "Untold Tales," an exhibition of drawings by twenty-one artists from June 17 - August 6, 2004. The artists included in this exhibition are René Magritte, Saul Steinberg, H.C. Westermann, George Grosz, Christina Ramberg, Scott Teplin, Marc Bell, Adam Dant, Mark Kostabi, Chris Ware, Robyn O'Neil, Glen Baxter, Marcel Dzama, Renée French, Anton van Dalen, Ellen Lanyon, Seth Michael Forman, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, András Böröcz, Michael Krueger, and Catya Plate.

"Untold Tales" focuses on narrative art where the meanings and interpretations of the works are enigmatic, ambiguous, and open-ended. Included in the exhibition are René Magritte's "La Liberté de L'Esprit," 1953, that depicts a semi-nude woman holding a pipe where object and gender are called into question by their odd association and juxtaposition. In George Grosz's drawing "Dr. Sand's End," 1925, the distraught physician bemoans his life amidst the spectre of an isolated gun lying uneasily on a chair in the room, while H.C. Westermann's haunted symbolism about war is kept private in "The Time of the Hunter," 1969. There is a sense of impending danger and unknown consequences as a man battles within an imposing snowscape in Robyn O'Neil's drawing "Alone (Active)," 2004.

Saul Steinberg's "Albergo Minerva," 1969, is a meticulous drawing of a bed in a hotel room that has been enveloped by the artist's undecipherable, calligraphic drawing style alongside numerous concentric circles. Strange parlor games are present in Glen Baxter's Untitled, 1973, where a man is unceremoniously tied up in the center of a room while four other men consult maps and plans in an undefined, ritualistic game. Scott Teplin's "13 Rooms," 2004, shows fantastic, unpopulated rooms where scale and odd combinations of objects and possessions are the norm and each room is surprisingly juxtaposed with the next. Marc Bell's drawing "Central Baggage," 2004, resembles the stream of consciousness in automatic writing with its several storylines and plots that go off in many directions without reaching any definite conclusions. Mark Kostabi's "We Control Each Other," 2002, features De Chiricoesque figures playing unknown mysterious chess-like games, while Catya Plate employs clothespin figures in "Queen of Buttons," 2003, to enact Tarot card rituals in her colored pencil drawing. Adam Dant's drawings in the "Bureau for the Investigation of the Subliminal Image" examine hidden meanings in art history that force the viewer to come up with their own scenarios.

The gallery hours in June are Tuesday through Saturday 11:00-5:30 P.M. In July and August the gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 11:00-5:30 P.M. For additional information, please contact Adam Baumgold at (212) 861-7338 or abaumgold@aol.com.