This April, Galerie d’Orsay presents a stunning exhibition featuring the recent work of Bruno Zupan and Natasha Zupan, who are fresh from their acclaimed 2024 father-daughter showing in Mallorca, Spain. 

Bruno is unveiling his deeply personal Homage to Boston, a collection celebrating our city’s rich heritage & historic parks. Alongside will hang Natasha’s ethereal mixed media series, Folding Light, which explores the interplay of illumination and form. 

This February, we invite you to experience the stirring vitality of Spots, Spatters & Daubs. From Miró's whimsical organic forms to Boxer's textural explorations, Francis's luminous voids, and SEN-1’s fluidly penned tags, these artists suffuse our Boston winter with an invigorating energy through "deliberately willed" and "profoundly individual gestures."

Galerie d’Orsay’s first show of 2025 celebrates the stirring power of spontaneous mark-making and the unique beauty of the unplanned, where chance encounters of color, movement, and form create unexpected and captivating compositions.

Travel the world with artist Samir Sammoun! Amble up Paris’s bustling Champs Élysée warmed by the summer sun. Breathe in the crisp autumn air of Boston’s Back Bay, cheering on rowers at the Head of the Charles Regatta. Stroll along a peaceful snowy path in Montreal, buttressed by softly rustling poplar trees. And, soak in the colored blooms of a French field of fragrant wildflowers.  Galerie d’Orsay welcomes you to experience the seasonal symphony, Samir Sammoun: The Way Home.

Chilean artist José Basso’s vibrant landscapes offer us a quiet respite — a sublime tranquility that is both immense in its power and peaceful in its emotion. Paring down his landscapes to just a few essential elements, Basso forms the space with softly diffused light stretched over boldly contrasting planes of color.

Basso’s evocative paintings are universal in their appeal and have firmly established him as one of Chile’s leading contemporary artists.

TOWARD ABSTRACTION celebrates American artist Ralph Wickiser's paintings from 1975 – 1998 in two of his landmark series, 'The Reflected Stream - The Early Years' and 'The Reflected Stream - The Abstract Years.' Complementing Wickiser's unique synthesis of representation and abstraction is Stanley Boxer, a paragon of Post-War American art.

Both men developed modes of abstraction wholly unique to themselves, cementing their places in art history. We are thrilled to present this new exhibition celebrating these giants of 20th century American art.

The concept of the Feminine Sublime pictures a woman’s art and creativity as the boundless depths of an ocean of feeling; unknowable, and all the more mystifying and enticing for it. Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern, Hisako Kobayashi, and Susan Coley intuitively explore the psychological depths of their inner selves—these oceanic emotions—through their artistic practices. By doing so, they invite us as viewers to journey with them through memory, color, and movement to uncover a deeper understanding of self.

In the Presence of Nature, there are places of communion and connection to be found. Kathy Buist’s art reflects this truth and encourages the viewer to see the world in a new light; one that is full of vibrant colors, textures, and emotions. Her paintings are a celebration of the beauty and complexity of our world and her ability to capture its essence is truly remarkable.

PABLO PICASSO
HENRI MATISSE
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
JULES CHÉRET
ALEXANDER CALDER
SEN-1
STANLEY BOXER
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
FRANK STELLA
SAM FRANCIS

​Visionary graffiti artist SEN-1 tells us a major theme of Hip Hop and the street art scene is that if somebody copies or tags over you, you have to “up your game” to stand apart. A similar process happened on a much larger scale in the 20th century between PARIS + NEW YORK. In France, artists like Picasso & Matisse revolutionized art as we knew it, quickly displacing the old guard. In postwar New York, the upstart artists of the downtown arts scene, in turn, replaced their European forebears.

It’s a process that builds up, year after year—exactly the way a wall becomes covered in graffiti.

AN URBAN CONVERSATION: PARIS + NEW YORK is a celebration of the artists, past & present, who are galvanizing cultural dialogues, challenging the standards of aesthetics, and pushing the possibilities of artistic expression.