Beauford Delaney: The Light Contained in Every Thing

The gallery's fourth solo presentation featuring the work of celebrated American artist Beauford Delaney (1901–1979), Beauford Delaney: The Light Contained in Every Thing includes abstract paintings and works on paper created between 1954 and 1968 that reflect the artist's spiritually informed exploration of light, color, and gesture. The exhibition follows The Drawing Center's 2025 In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney , which was the first major New York museum exhibition of the artist's work in over three decades as well as the first to focus solely on his drawings. Taking its title from the introduction to Delaney's 1964 solo exhibition at Galerie Lambert in Paris written by his close friend and famed author James Baldwin (1924–1987), this exhibition illuminates Delaney's unmatched ability to imbue his abstractions with a scintillating radiance that resonates on a visual, psychological, and spiritual level.