# Bykert Gallery

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**Bykert Gallery** was a contemporary art gallery in [New York City](/source/New_York_City) between 1966[1] and 1975, run by [Klaus Kertess](/source/Klaus_Kertess_(curator_and_gallerist)) (1940 - 2016) and Jeff Byers who had been classmates at [Yale College](/source/Yale_College), class of 1958. The gallery originally was located at 15 West [West 57th Street](/source/57th_Street_(Manhattan)) in Manhattan, (in the same space as the defunct [Green Gallery](/source/Green_Gallery) that closed in 1965); it later moved to East 81st Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues. Among the artists who were represented at Bykert are [Brice Marden](/source/Brice_Marden), [Chuck Close](/source/Chuck_Close), [Ralph Humphrey](/source/Ralph_Humphrey), [David Novros](/source/David_Novros), and [Dorothea Rockburne](/source/Dorothea_Rockburne). Artists who showed there with solo exhibitions or in group shows include Jared Bark, [Bill Bollinger](/source/Bill_Bollinger), Robert Duran, [Richard Van Buren](/source/Richard_Van_Buren), Peter Gourfain, [Alan Saret](/source/Alan_Saret), [Michael Goldberg](/source/Michael_Goldberg_(painter)), [Ronnie Landfield](/source/Ronnie_Landfield), [Gary Stephan](/source/Gary_Stephan), [Deborah Remington](/source/Deborah_Remington), [Bob Neuwirth](/source/Bob_Neuwirth), Paul Mogensen, [Judy Rifka](/source/Judy_Rifka), [Arleen Schloss](/source/Arleen_Schloss), [Alan Uglow](/source/Alan_Uglow), [Barry Le Va](/source/Barry_Le_Va), [Thornton Willis](/source/Thornton_Willis), and [Joe Zucker](/source/Joe_Zucker).

During the 1960s [Lynda Benglis](/source/Lynda_Benglis) began her career by working for the Bykert Gallery as a secretary before launching her own successful artistic career; and during the 1970s [Mary Boone](/source/Mary_Boone) began her career by working for the Bykert Gallery as a secretary before opening her own successful gallery.

## References

1. [Marden biography at Matthew Marks, retrieved November 12, 2008](http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=1&a=111&b=1)

## External links

- [NYTimes obituary](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/arts/design/klaus-kertess-dead.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0)
- [ArtNews Klaus Kertess obituary](http://www.artnews.com/2016/10/09/klaus-kertess-foresighted-art-dealer-and-curator-dies-at-76/)
- [Brooklyn Rail interview by Bill Bartman with Klaus Kertess and Dorothea Rockburne](https://web.archive.org/web/20071011154008/http://thebrooklynrail.org/arts/jan05/rockburne.html)
- Kertess, Klaus (2011). [*Seen, Written: Selected Essays*](http://www.artbook.com/9780980024296.html) Gregory R. Miller & Co., New York

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