Harper’s Chelsea, New York, NY
January 9 to March 1 2025
Marc Dennis’s first solo with the gallery recasts Dutch Golden Age vanitas for the contemporary era: hyperreal still lifes where bees and iridescent bubbles orbit lush bouquets and glossed fruit. The works explore nature and tech (those glassy orbs read like man-made “ingenuity”), while round canvases such as A Simple Relationship turn the genre into little planets, studded with frogs, carnivorous plants, and celestial symbols. The paint handling is indulgent, as the palette goes full technicolor. But the mood is memento mori: beauty, briefly at its peak, already slipping. You don’t just see the shine, you feel the countdown
