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Contemporary Art, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture

“Bodies, Bodies, Bodies: Raffish Vulnerability and Profane Ambivalence”

Pen + Brush, New York, June 15 to August 26 2023

Suzanne Unrein “The Animals Are Dancing” 2020
Alfa Ros Petursdottir, “Women’s Parliament” 2023
Heather Goodwind, “Veiled Eye, Right” 2013

“‘Bodies’ represents the authentic and earnest ways in which these artists buck convention so thoroughly that the final product appears unabashed, even crude. The body is literally what binds us, yet here, and contemporarily, it also separates us as we inevitably react to this public and radical display. This show forces viewers to reckon with their own perspectives, values, boundaries, and biases” -Curator Parker Daley Garcia.

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Contemporary Art, Painting

Georg Baselitz: “The Painter in his Bed”

Gagosian, New York, November 9–December 22, 2023

Georg Baselitz, a stag from "The Painter in his Bed"
Georg Baselitz, a bed with stockings from "The Painter in his Bed"
Georg Baselitz, a stag from "The Painter in his Bed"
Georg Baselitz, stags from "The Painter in his Bed"
Georg Baselitz, a stag from "The Painter in his Bed"
Georg Baselitz, a stag from "The Painter in his Bed"
Gagosian Gallery opening for Baselitz

Georg Baselitz (born Hans-Georg Kern, 1938) is a German painter and sculptor, commonly known for painting his subjects upside down. He took this approach as a pivot in his career in 1969, with a show of inverted portraits that soon became his signature gesture.

This exhibit is series of neo-expressionist paintings, paired subjects of figures in a bed and inverted deer stags.

The compelling works featured in The Painter in His Bed focus on two motifs: figures in bed and the stag. Defining human and animal anatomy with raw expression, Baselitz negotiates apperception of these subjects through his distinctive painterly approach. Vigorously applying layers of paint, he affixes stretched nylon stockings and sheets of gauze across the upper parts of the paintings or makes monoprinted impressions of their shapes. With these additions, Baselitz extends the innovation of Springtime, his 2021 exhibition in the same space in New York. Dedicated to the spirited provocations of Hannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters, and other Dadaists, the works in Springtime draw upon these artists’ irreverent introduction of everyday materials into the realm of art. Whereas many of the Springtime paintings are exuberantly colored, the new works are dominated by elemental contrasts of black and white.

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