CURATED ART ONE PIECE AT A TIME
KES ZAPKUS, Red Sea Ordeals in Cyberspace, 2017, Oil and acrylic on cotton, Overall size: 72 x 180 inches (3 panels adjoined each 72 x 60 in.), KZ045
Through its carefully curated collection of contemporary artworks, SILAS VON MORISSE GALLERY extensive experience and expertise aims to inspire and engage art enthusiasts and collectors by providing a platform for emerging, established and older generations of artists deserving re-introduction.
Gallery sign photographed by Adolfo Doring
ABOUT THE GALLERY
After her 20+ years of experience in the art world, SILAS VON MORISSE GALLERY (originally named ART 3) was established in February 2014 by Silas von Morisse formerly AVP Gallery Manager of Christie’s “Haunch of Venison” and Helly Nahmad Gallery New York. After 5 years of operation, the gallery closed its bric & mortar location in New York City to transition to Online Viewing Room only.
From 2014-2019, the gallery presented the first New York Solos shows by: Amel Benys, Matthew Cole, Alexis de Chaunac, Juliette Dumas, Anthony Miler, Frauke Schlitz, Owen Schuh, Brett Wallace, Justin Williams. The program developed to include celebrated artists such as Joe Amrhein, Frances Barth, Richmond Burton, David Goerk, Alain Kirili, Monika Weiss, Marjorie Welish, Kes Zapkus. During those years, the gallery program was multidisciplinary, process oriented and leaning towards abstract works while aiming to nurture the development of new emerging art while presenting older generations of artists' work deserving re-introduction.
Image: Inaugural Exhibition, 2014
Installation view, FRANCES BARTH retrospective at Sean Scully’s 447 Space in New York April- June 2025
ABOUT SILAS VON MORISSE
Galeriste and Curator Mrs. Silas Von Morisse experience in the Art World in New York City, expands for 25+ years as former AVP Gallery Manager of Christie’s NY “Haunch of Venison”, Gallery Manager of Helly Nahmad Gallery New York, and owner of Silas von Morisse Gallery (formerly ART 3).
In the 1990’s Silas Created and produced The Festival of American Short Films in Paris, Monaco & Baltimore. Silas began her professional involvement in the art world in 2000. First with the Helly Nahmad gallery in New York focusing on Impressionnist and Modern Art where she organized numerous exhibitions including the acclaimed SOUTINE BACON, curated by Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow (2011). Other exhibitions include: Alexander Calder, The Painter (2011), Dubuffet (2009), Gustave Moreau – Arman The Day after ( 2008), Picasso Bodegones (2008) Max Ernst (2007), Fernand Léger (2005).
In 2012, Silas joined the team of Christie's “Haunch of Venison”, the Contemporary Gallery of Francois Pinault (owner of Christie’s), as Senior Level AVP, Gallery Manager, where she worked on exhibitions featuring Günther Uecker, Chiharu Shiota, Marlene Mocquet, Kevin Francis Gray, Doug Argue and Ahmed Alsoudani. She has assisted clients in buying or selling works in the Secondary and Primary Markets. In 2014, Silas opened her own gallery first named ART 3 in homage to her father’s renown architect studio in Monaco ATELIER 3 (1960-1978). Then in 2017, the gallery was renamed Silas Von Morisse gallery.
Von Morisse is known for her curatorial eye. She fostered the development of new emerging artists and presented older generations of artists' deserving re-introduction.
Juliette Dumas, DELPHES TALE, 2020
In 2020, the gallery shifted its focus on artists working with the Spiritual in Art Abstract Paintings and the depiction of Nature and the Natural World.
This approach was originally revealed by French Art Critic, Pierre Restany, who drafted in 1978 the "Rio Negro Manifesto" along with two artists, the Brazilian (born in Poland) Frans Krajcberg, and the Yugoslav based in Brazil, Sepp Baendereck. In 1978, the three men traveled along the Rio Negro River. That extraordinary expedition triggered a profound stream of consciousness in the three men on the urgency of defending the Amazon and combining ethics with esthetics in art. The “Manifesto” yearns for a return to "art for nature”.
Currently, we collaborate with other dealers and continue working with our artists by presenting their works on our "Online Viewing Room".
We wish to thank all artists, curators, art critics, collectors, art lovers, who accompany us, support us, trust us, or simply appreciate our work.
Image: Juliette Dumas, ANGELS, 2016
Frances Barth in her studio