Current Exhibition

Raymond Saunders
Post No Bills

Curated by Ebony L. Haynes
On view through April 5

A two part solo exhibition:

Andrew Kreps Gallery
22 Cortlandt Alley and 394 Broadway

David Zwirner
519 W 19th St and 525 W 19th St
On view through April 6

Click here to read Zoë Hopkins’s review of the exhibition in The New York Times.

Andrew Kreps is pleased to present a two-part solo exhibition curated by Ebony L. Haynes at 22 Cortlandt Alley & 394 Broadway in Tribeca and at David Zwirner’s galleries, 519 and 525 West 19th Street in Chelsea. Titled Post No Bills, this expansive presentation will span four decades of the artist’s work, including paintings and works on paper, many of which have never before been seen. This exhibition offers visitors insight into Saunders’s singular and influential practice, and coincides with the recent announcement that the artist will now be co-represented by David Zwirner and Andrew Kreps.

In his works, Saunders brings together his extensive formal training with his own observations and lived experience. His assemblage-style paintings frequently begin with a monochromatic black ground elaborated with white chalk—both a pointed reversal of the traditional figure-ground relationship and a nod to Saunders’s decades spent as a teacher. He subsequently adds a range of other markings, materials, and talismans. Expressionistic swaths of paint, minimalist motifs, line drawings, and passages of vibrant color tangle with found objects, signs, and doors collected from his urban environment, creating unexpected visual rhymes and resonances that reward careful and sustained looking. At once deliberately constructed and improvisatory, didactic and deeply felt, these richly built surfaces conjure the full-ness of life, and its complications, allowing for a vast and nuanced multiplicity of meanings.

Click here to read the full press release.

Beau Dick

Walas Gwa'yam / Big, Great Whale

22 Cortlandt Alley & 394 Broadway

April 11 – May 11

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 11th, 6 - 8pm

“Our whole culture has been shattered. It’s up to the artists now to pick up the pieces and try and put them together, back where they belong. Yeah, it does become political. It becomes beyond political; it becomes very deep and emotional.” – Beau Dick speaking in the 2017 film ‘Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick.’

Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to announce Walas Gwa'yam / Big, Great Whale, an exhibition of works by artist and activist Chief Beau Dick (1955 - 2017; B. Village Island, Kingcome Inlet, BC; Kwakwaka’wakw) made between 1979 and 2015.

Beau Dick’s works are deeply informed by the tradition of potlatch, a gift-giving ceremony practiced by Indigenous people of the coast of Pacific Northwest Canada, which focused on the redistribution of wealth as a tool for building solidarity. Outlawed by the Canadian Government  for nearly seventy years as part of an ongoing history of forced assimilation, the seclusion of Dick’s birthplace on Kingcome Inlet (Gwa’yi) allowed his community to continue practicing customs relatively free from the gaze of colonial authorities. Trained in wood-carving by his father, grandfather, and other master carvers, and completing his education in Vancouver, Dick was acutely aware of inherent tensions between contemporary consumer culture and Kwakwaka’wakw teachings. Refuting his masks as static objects, his carvings reference supernatural figures, like Dzunuk’wa, the “wild woman of the woods,” and her counterpart, Bakwas, “wild man of the woods,” which are reanimated to combat what Dick saw as capitalism’s “ravenous” oppression. Frequently employing his works in dances and performances, in 2012 he took forty Atlakim (Forest) masks to his community in Alert Bay, where after one final ceremony, they were ritually burned, referencing the ongoing responsibility for rebirth, and recreation in the face of erased tradition.

The gallery thanks LaTiesha Fazakas of Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver, and the Forge Project, Taghkanic, New York for their support and assistance in the organization of this exhibition.

Upcoming Art Fairs

Andrew Kreps Gallery at miart 2024
Booth: B64
Public Days: Friday, April 12 to Sunday, April 14
Preview: Thursday, April 11

Works by:
Henry Shum
Isabella Costabile
Erika Verzutti (presented in collaboration with Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel)

For more information, click here.

Artist News

Ernie Barnes

Dix and the Present
On view through April 1
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg, Germany

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
On view through July 7
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052

Andrea Bowers

Exist, Flourish, Evolve (solo)
On view through May 26
moCa Cleveland
11400 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Emma Dreaming of California (solo)
On view through April 20
Gaga
6916 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Julien Creuzet

Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon (solo)

April 20 - November 24
Curated by Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho
French Pavilion
La Biennale di Venezia

Oh téléphone, oracle noir [...] (solo) 
On view through May 26
Magasin CNAC
Site Bouchayer-Viallet
8 Esplanade Andry-Farcy, 38000 Grenoble

UNBOUND: PERFORMANCE AS RUPTURE
Julia Stoschek Foundation
On view through July 28
Leipziger Straße 60, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Roe Ethridge

Happy Birthday Louise Parker (solo)

Curated by Alessandro Rabottini
On view through April 5
10 Corso Como

20154 Milano, Italy

Click here to read an Nicolas Vamvouklis’s interview with Roe Ethridge in Fondazione Imago Mundi’s Features #26.

Bracha L. Ettinger

Yours in Solidarity, Altre storie tra arte e parola (Other Stories between Art and Words)
Curated by Sofia Gotti and Caterina Iaquinta
April 14 - June 30, 2024
Opening Reception: April 13, 6pm
XX Biennale Donna
Palazzo Bonacossi
Via Cisterna del Follo 5, Ferrara

Jes Fan

Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing
Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes
On view through August 11
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014

Greater Toronto Art 2024
Curated by Kate Wong, Ebony L. Haynes, and Toleen Touq
On view through July 28
MOCA Toronto
158 Sterling Rd., Toronto ON, Canada

João Maria Gusmão

João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva's work Fruit Polyhedron, 2009, is included in:
What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms
On view through September 22
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third St, San Francisco, CA 94103

He Xiangyu

Bunker Berlin
Ongoing
Boros Collection
Bunker, Reinhardtstr. 20, 10117 Berlin-Mitte, Germany

Christian Holstad

Salve (solo)
Curated by Gioele Melandri
On view through June 30
Museo Civico Luigi Varoli
Palazzo Sforza, Corso Sforza 21, Cotignola, Ravenna, Italy

Oliver Lee Jackson

Machines for the Spirit (solo)

On view through May 4
BLUM
2727 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034
Opening reception: Saturday, March 16, 5 – 7pm

What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection
On view through July 7
BAMPFA
2155 Center Street Berkeley, CA

Annette Kelm

The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project
On view through April 7
Canadian Centre of Architecture
1920 Baile St, Montreal, Quebec H3H 2S6, Canada

Corita Kent

With My Eyes
Curated by Chiara Parisi and Bruno Racine
April 20 – November 24
Holy See Pavilion
La Biennale di Venezia

Unfinished Business
On view through May 26
Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840

Everyday, Someday, and Other Stories
Ongoing
Stedelijk Museum
Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bertina Lopes

Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere
April 20 – November 24
Curated by Adriano Pedrosa
60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

Goshka Macuga

Atlas
Ongoing
Prada Foundation, Torre
L.go Isarco, 2, 20139, Milan, Italy

The World As It Goes
On view through September 2
Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce
2 Rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris, France

Ján Man?uška

1939?–?2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era
Ongoing 
National Gallery Prague (Trade Fair Palace) 
Dukelských hrdin? 47, 170 00 Prague, Czech Republic

Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari. Tutto
Curated by Marco Meneguzzo
On view through June 30
Fondazione Magnani-Rocca
Via Fondazione Magnani Rocca, 4, 43029 Mamiano PR, Italy

Everlyn Nicodemus

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood
Curated by Hettie Judah and Hayward Gallery Touring
On view through May 26
Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA

Everlyn Nicodemus' work, Självporträtt, Åkersberga [Self-portrait, Akersberga], is included in:
Collection Display
Ongoing
National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin's Pl, London WC2H 0HE, United Kingdom

Raymond Saunders

What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection
On view through July 7
BAMPFA
2155 Center Street Berkeley, CA

Barbara T. Smith

Matt Connors: Finding Aid
On view through June 2
Goldsmiths CCA
St James’, New Cross, London SE14 6AD

Michael E. Smith

Michael E. Smith (solo)
Curated by Lynn Kost
On view through April 28
Kunst Museum Winterthur
Beim Stadthaus, Museumstrasse 52, 8400 Winterthur, Switzerland

Hito Steyerl

Stranieri Ovunque: Foreigners Everywhere
April 20 – November 24
Curated by Adriano Pedrosa
60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

Triennial
On view through April 7
National Gallery of Victoria
180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3006, Australia

Universal / Remote
On view through June 3
National Art Center, Tokyo
7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558

Big Brother Blockchain
On view through August 18
Nam June Paik Art Center
(17068) Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 10 Baeknamjun-ro (Sanggal-****)

Liam Gillick and Hito Steyerl: However Many Times We Ran The Model The Results Were Pretty Much The Same
Ongoing 
Roddino, Piedmont, Italy

Cheyney Thompson

For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960
On view through June 29
The Warehouse Dallas
14105 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX 75244

Fredrik Værslev

Fredrik Værslev’s Curtain Bangs (solo)
Opening April 26
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri
Fasanenstrasse 6, 10719 Berlin
Kopenhagener Strasse 60 – 72, 13407 Berlin

Erika Verzutti

Notizia (solo)
Curated by Chiara Nuzzi and Alberto Salvadori
April 10 – July 19
Opening Reception: April 8, 6 – 8pm
ICA Milano
Via Orobia 26, 20139 Milano

Actual Fractals, Act I
On view through October 2024
Sculpture Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

Erika Verzutti’s Naked Venus, commissioned by Compton Verney, is included in: Sculpture in the Park
On view through May 2, 2027
Compton Verney
Warwickshire, CV35 9HZ

Transmissions: Selections from the Marciano Collection
Ongoing
Marciano Art Foundation
4357 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90010