Ellsworth Kelly and others at Matthew Marks Gallery

The Matthew Marks Gallery has an excellently organized website as far as displaying exhibits and artists' works. When I looked at it on October 21, 2006, one of the current shows was by Ken Price. Clicking on the show name takes you to the press release. Links to the right go to thumbnail images from the current show, or to the artist's page. Click on one of these to go to larger images with previous, up, and next links. Sounds simple, and it is, but many gallery websites make navigation way too complicated, or just too frustrating to get around.

On this site, the design is simple, elegant, and effective, except for an occasional warning about incorrect links, which nevertheless doesn't seem to stop you from getting to the correct page.

The best way to get to see online exhibitions is to go to the main Gallery Exhibitions page and wander around, virtually, from there. One of the artists with an extensive gallery presence is Ellsworth Kelly. His Wikipedia entry has some good links but Matthew Marks has been exhibiting his works since 1991, and accompanying most of the shows with web pages, which are listed under Gallery Exhibitions for this artist. The online gallery entries are a bit spotty as far as showing works for the earlier shows but they get better for latter years.

In order to find a video that I could display in this post, I checked YouTube for Ellsworth Kelly. I found several videos, one of which I've embedded below. This video shows Kelly's work at three of the Matthew Marks galleries. Another video I found is of an interview done with Kelly for vernissage tv which does online videocasts of artists and shows. It may show up in the thumbnails that appear at the end of this video. The quality of the videos is somewhat better if watched directly on YouTube.