Jack Shainman Gallery

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present LIE DOGGO, a monumental exhibition of work by Nina Chanel Abney that spans her creative practice, uniting a new series of paintings with collages, site-specific murals, an immersive digital art installation, and the debut of a new body of large scale sculpture. Paying homage to the sophisticated color theories of Matisse, continuing the legacy of cubists, Picasso and Léger, and connecting with the synesthetic sensibilities of Harlem Renaissance greats, Douglas and Lawrence, Abney brings these historical movements into contemporary pertinence.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present This Land, an exhibition of two kindred bodies of work by Leslie Wayne that express the nature of the American West through perception and memory. In each piece, Wayne considers different ways in which we interpret and imagine geological space, exploring landscape both as a vertical, abstracted force and a horizontal, figurative expanse. Named in homage to Woody Guthrie’s heartland ballad “This Land is Your Land,” Wayne offers a contemporary vision of Manifest Destiny—imbuing her symbolic, and experienced, westward voyages with topographies that are sensorial, memorial, and tectonic.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present blood compass, a solo exhibition of new work by Diedrick Brackens. In these weavings, the artist maps an imagined place —visualizing the internal mechanisms and symbols that animate his work while removing the anchor of direct narrative. The scenes depicted in each weaving exist out of time, suspended between a distant past and a world to come. The works in this series are set at dusk, twilight, and deep night—hours that become vehicles for ritual and interiority. The silhouetted inhabitants of this in-between realm are archetypes that Brackens once described as ciphers, or “needles through which I slip the threads of biography and myth, and pass through a mesh of history and context.”

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Born Black, an exhibition of Gordon Parks’s photographs—curated in collaboration with The Gordon Parks Foundation. This presentation is inspired by the 1971 book Gordon Parks: Born Black, A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960-1970, which brought together a collection of essays and photographs by Parks that were originally created for Life magazine. Translating the essential themes of the text into an exhibition, Jack Shainman explains, “We seek to commemorate Parks’s ground-breaking 1971 anthology, and the enduring impact of his photographs and writing today. This exhibition is an act of expansion—presenting both seminal and lesser-known works from his renowned photographic series, offering contemporary meditations on his incisive eye and insightful prose.”

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Broken Spectre, an immersive video installation by Richard Mosse filmed in the Amazon Basin. Understanding the urgency of sharing Mosse’s seminal piece in the United States, this will be the first exhibition housed in the gallery’s new Tribeca location—situated in a multi-story 20,000 square-foot space in the Clock Tower Building at 46 Lafayette Street—which is slated to complete renovation in the fall of 2024. Opening for a limited preview on the occasion of exhibiting Mosse’s critical work for the first time in New York, this special presentation is an exciting glimpse into the gallery’s greatly anticipated restoration, and a fulfillment of Shainman’s commitment to activate the expansive site to platform the ambitious and prescient work of the artists they represent without delay.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Echoes of Circumstance, a group exhibition featuring work by El Anatsui, Lyne Lapointe, and Garnett Puett. Within Anatsui, Lapointe, and Puett’s art exists a cycle of metamorphosis through which local sources, ancestral practices, and biological phenomena are expressed through found objects, biomorphic compositions, and fractal patterns. Composing work that extends across continents, languages, and methods, this presentation considers the creative philosophy of material ecology. As explained by Neri Oxman, material ecology is an approach to design in which “Material is not considered a subordinate attribute of form, but rather its progenitor. Such is the story of form told from the point of view of matter, and it begins, naturally, with form’s predicament.” Considered within the framework of artistic practice, Anatsui, Lapointe, and Puett enumerate how natural methodology can synthesize structures of a built environment and vice versa.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work by Meleko Mokgosi for his ongoing project "Spaces of Subjection" (2020-present). Comprised of paintings and prints, this project examines the notions of space outside of the confines of figuration and perspectival representation. Spaces of Subjection brings together the scope of historiography, human versus non-human, ancestral and indigenous histories, contours of divination, processes of socialization, discursive spaces that are constitutive of imagining (such as Black romanticism), and gaps that distinguish realism from magical realism, and surrealism from capriccio.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Emanoel Araújo, an exhibition of sculptural work by the late Brazilian artist. This will be Araújo’s first major gallery survey in New York since the 1980s, and his debut exhibition at the gallery—where his estate is now co-represented alongside Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte. As a creative, curator, and collector of Afro-Brazilian art, ephemera, and legacy, Araújo was an active mediator between the cultural, expressive, and political dynamics enmeshed in Brazilian identity. The works in this presentation—created from the 1970s through the artist’s death in 2022—reverberate with cues from his childhood in the Afro-Brazilian spiritual capital of Bahia, expeditions across his family’s ancestral Benin and Nigeria, and studies of Yoruba iconography. Explorations into the sociopolitics of geometric abstraction and preservation of Afro-Brazilian material culture further position Araújo as a prism through which historical and spiritual wisdom is filtered into a more dimensional spectrum.

We Buy Gold is pleased to present SEVEN., a group exhibition that will take over Jack Shainman Gallery and Nicola Vassell Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Curated by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, SEVEN. features work by Max Guy, Renee Gladman, David Hammons, Nandi Loaf, Abigail Lucien, Kerry James Marshall, Lorraine O’Grady, Ashley Teamer, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Founded in 2017, We Buy Gold is a roving art space presenting exhibitions, commissioned projects, and public events. SEVEN. explores the ways in which artists disrupt the politics of space, time, and language to constitute another world. In their fertile hands, the measure of time lengthens, bodies morph, and the fixed use-value of objects and language slips—highlighting the foundational fractures present within contemporary society. Whether in Max Guy’s time-warped diptych of The Wiz and The Wizard of Oz, Ashley Teamer’s splintered interstates of embroidered inkjet prints, or Kerry James Marshall’s clattering and colossal pocket change, emerging and established voices harmonize through practices that strive to upend figurative expectations and reveal the obscure structures that dictate significance. Distorting the boundaries of the body, architecture, place, and meaning, each artist investigates the generative capacity and possibilities of the undefined and malleable. How are new worlds constituted in the midst of contemporary crises? By leaning into ruptures that open out into an otherwise.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Michael Snow: A Life Survey (1955-2020). In a career that defied categorization in medium or genre, Snow’s work embodied originality over novelty, the cerebral over the conceptual, and evolution over conclusion. It is with this expansive vision that A Life Survey is mounted, offering an intricate and dynamic portrait of Snow’s life and work. Born in Toronto in 1928, Snow showed an early affinity for creative experimentation. Throughout his youth, he played piano in local jazz bands and received prizes for his early paintings. This led him to the Ontario College of Art where he studied from 1948 to 1952. When declaring his major from rigidly divided academic departments, he chose Design, comprehending that it was the “common aspect of all disciplines.” Fascinated by pushing the limits on ways of seeing, Snow was influenced most by Modern artists who made work on their own terms, including Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp, Willem De Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Yves Klein, and Mark Rothko. In these early years, he described embarking on a “try this, try that” period through which experiences from his professional career, daily life, and jazz improvisations inspired pieces like A to Z, 1956, Drawn Out, 1959, and The Drum Book, 1960.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Myself When I Am Real, an exhibition featuring renowned artist Barkley L. Hendricks’ photographic work. The exhibition includes both vintage prints and works produced from the artist’s archive, which the Estate has been cataloging since his passing, and most of which have never been seen publicly. Presented together, these works illustrate the singular way Hendricks perceived the world.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition of works by Rose B. Simpson. Located at 513 West 20th Street, the exhibition features Simpson’s ceramic and mixed-media sculptures, which will be making their New York City debut. Rose B. Simpson’s ethereal figures function as her hopes and prayers for both herself and the world around her. These sculptures represent her never-ending investigation into the human condition and act as messengers of her intentions.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Burning Cross, an exhibition of new work by Odili Donald Odita at the 513 West 20th Street location.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Hank Willis Thomas, Everything We See Hides Another Thing across both Chelsea spaces. Comprising large-scale sculptures, mixed media textile works, and retroreflective prints, this exhibition of new work continues Thomas’ exploration of color theory, gestures of unity and strength, and the many ways we can look at a given historical moment or subject.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present two new series of work by Yoan Capote across both our Chelsea locations. REQUIEM, being shown for the first time in the United States will be on view at 20th Street, while PURIFICATION will debut at 524 West 24th Street. The two series work in dialogue to expand Capote’s iconic seascapes towards a wider, global spectrum of reflection by underscoring the values, symbolism, and cultural importance of the culled materials used to create the works: recycled fishhooks, deconstructed barbed wire, gold leaf, and plaster amongst others. REQUIEM was inspired by a recent trip to Italy, during which Capote made pilgrimages to the artistic masterpieces housed in churches, mausoleums, and museums. This context also allowed him to connect more directly to the migratory currents of the Mediterranean Sea. What surfaced were parallels to his own deeply complicated relationship with the sea informed by his Cuban experience.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Stressed World, on view at The School through December 3rd, 2022. The exhibition takes its name from the title of Ghanaian-born artist El Anatsui’s large-scale sculpture composed of thousands of folded pieces of discarded aluminum and copper wire. Throwing light on the long shadow of colonialism while also forming a blueprint for an alternative future, Anatsui’s 'Stressed World' (2011) sets the tone for the exhibition, which includes 30 artists working from their own corners of an exhausted planet. Featured artists include: El Anatsui, Shimon Attie, Radcliffe Bailey, Yoan Capote, Nick Cave, Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu, Gehard Demetz, Pierre Dorion, Paterson Ewen, Vibha Galhotra, Barkley L. Hendricks, Hayv Kahraman, Anton Kannemeyer, Lyne Lapointe, Deborah Luster, Tyler Mitchell, Meleko Mokgosi, Adi Nes, Jackie Nickerson, Odili Donald Odita, Gordon Parks, Garnett Puett, Malick Sidibé, Claudette Schreuders, Paul Anthony Smith, Michael Snow, Hank Willis Thomas, Carlos Vega, Andy Warhol, Leslie Wayne, and Carrie Mae Weems

Jack Shainman Gallery is thrilled to present Plus, a solo exhibition of new works by Geoffrey Chadsey, at our 513 West 20th Street space. In this new series of often larger than life-size watercolor pencil drawings on mylar, Geoffrey Chadsey’s subjects present themselves to the viewer nude, like an artist’s model, or naked, in a state to be desired. Each body is ruptured with a kind of gender melancholy that is performed through incoherent, mutating selves. Rendered on mylar, Chadsey plays with this surface that allows his liquified marks to move around like paint while emitting the plastic sheen of a photograph. Lines wrap the subjects’ bodies, challenging physical dimensionality and mimicking anatomical etchings. These works are created from looking at vast and varied collections of photographs, and in turn, reproduce the dynamic of a photo shoot: a subject presenting themselves to the lens, either being photographed by someone, or by themselves, to be presented to another.

Jack Shainman Gallery is proud to present In the Paint, an exhibition of rarely presented work by Barkley L. Hendricks at our 513 West 20th Street location, which features Hendricks’s basketball themed paintings, related photography, works on paper, and personal sketchbooks. This early body of work is an exploration and interpretation of abstraction from the perspective of an artist whose practice was deeply interested in social community and representing the idea of Blackness. Created mostly in the late 1960s between his years as a student at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Yale University, the paintings are a formative study of minimalism—an investigation of light, color, line, and geometry based in the shapes of the game and inspired by Hendricks’s own love of basketball and its presence in his community.

Jack Shainman Gallery is proud to present Meleko Mokgosi: Democratic Intuition at Jack Shainman Gallery | The School. Democratic Intuition (2013-2019) is an eight-chapter project that questions conceptions of democracy in relation to the daily lived experiences of southern Africans. Mokgosi examines the ways in which democracy can be thought of as inscribed in the individual by various institutions and through processes of socialization and intersubjective exchange. As a result, the project reveals the inherent contradiction between one’s supposed individual freedoms and the necessary recognition of and interaction with the other in democracy.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Not Quite Human, a new body of work by Hayv Kahraman and the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery.

Jack Shainman Gallery is proud to present King of the Hill, a group exhibition that spans our 513 West 20th Street and 524 West 24th Street locations. King of the Hill unites multimedia work by gallery represented artists along with artists showing at Jack Shainman for the first time. Dichotomies between formality and abstraction, potential and loss, religion and power thread throughout.

Five years since the opening of The School, Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Basquiat x Warhol, an extensive examination of the compelling, albeit complex relationship between two master artists during the final years of their lives. The crux of this exhibition lies in the collaborative paintings and interconnected practices of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. The two artists shared collective creative space in New York City, a city rife with possibility. The series of collaboration paintings, executed from 1984 – 85, sparked conversations between the two artists that are visible on each canvas – a visual language all their own that revitalized Warhol’s engagement with painting.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present In the Bedroom, a new body of work by Claudette Schreuders and the artist’s sixth exhibition at the gallery. Stemming from concepts of coupledom that Schreuders has been grappling with since the mid-nineteen nineties, this new series of sculptures investigates domesticity and the ways in which it has been portrayed throughout art history. Schreuders’ references span from Herbert M. Cole’s 1989 book, Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa and a 1970s publication entitled, Love Positions for Married Couples: A Unique Guide to Various Techniques of Sexual Intercourse, to Jockum Nordström’s drawings of simultaneously explicit, yet humorous scenes within the home. Compounding on these contemplations, Schreuders builds a narrative thread throughout her practice.

Jack Shainman Gallery is proud to present Junction, a new body of work by Paul Anthony Smith and his first solo exhibition with the gallery. Spanning our 20th Street and 24th Street spaces, Junction features Smith’s unique picotage on pigment prints that question, confront, and challenge the potential of a photographic image to retain past truths and constructed realities.

Jack Shainman Gallery is proud to present What’s Inside, an exhibition of new work by Leslie Wayne. In a tectonic shift from the easy play with pictorial representation in Wayne’s previous bodies of work, What’s Inside introduces an all-embracing magnetic pull towards trompe l’oeil and verisimilitude. In two distinct, yet related bodies of work depicting containers and windows, shaped panels in exaggerated and skewed perspectives determine the painted object. Door and window frames, armoires, closets and shelves are rendered through constructed panels and an abstract and three-dimensional handling of paint. With this practice, Wayne explores conventional representation and figure-ground relationships. What is illusion and what is, in fact, real becomes tensely blurred. The large scale of these paintings invites further questioning as one could envision stepping across the threshold and into their imagined interiors.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was born in 1977 in London, where she is currently based. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy Schools. She is the 2018 recipient of the Carnegie Prize, awarded for her contribution to the Carnegie International, 57th Edition. She was short-listed for the 2013 Turner Prize and was the 2012 recipient of the Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Prize.

Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, Michael Snow, Paul Anthony Smith, Odili Donald Odita, Adi Nes, Kerry James Marshall, Yoan Capote, El Anatsui

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present If a Tree Falls, an exhibition of new work by Nick Cave, bookending the artist’s spring presentations in New York. If Weather or Not (Jack Shainman Gallery, May 17 – June 23, 2018) was the visual manifestation of states of mind, and The Let Go (Park Avenue Armory, June 7 – July 1, 2018) an expression of states of being, If A Tree Falls explores a crucial underlying component of these personal and collective states – the state of the nation.

Ojih Odutola was born in Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 1985 and currently lives and works in New York. Current solo exhibitions include Scenes of Exchange, 12th Manifesta Biennial, Palermo, Italy, through November 4, 2018, Toyin Ojih Odutola: The Firmament, Hood Museum of Art (Hood Downtown), New Hampshire, through September 2, 2018 and Toyin Ojih Odutola: Testing the Name, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, through September 9, 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017 and A Matter of Fact: Toyin Ojih Odutola, Museum of African Diaspora, California, 2016-2017.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Orientation, in conjunction with The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII) as part of their inaugural TRII Biennial. Expanding upon the Institute’s first year of research on Whiteness, what Claudia Rankine has described as “a source of unquestioned power [that], as a ‘bloc,’ feels itself to be endangered even as it retains its hold on power,” the exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery will include work by Sam Durant, Ken Gonzales-Day, Anton Kannemeyer, Byron Kim, Sol LeWitt, Kerry James Marshall, Meleko Mokgosi, Yasumasa Morimura, Gordon Parks, Emily Nelms Perez, Jackie Nickerson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Claudette Schreuders, Richard Serra, Andres Serrano, Becky Suss, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., and Carrie Mae Weems. The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial seeks to disorient bodies habituated to spaces of white dominance by creating a collaborative space to check, mark, and ultimately question whiteness, challenging its dominance as it operates through default positions in cultural behavior.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Weather or Not, an exhibition of new work by Nick Cave. This presentation will debut a series of wire Tondos, in which swirling cacophonies of colors are created from the layered mapping of cataclysmic weather patterns superimposed onto brain scans of black youth suffering from PTSD as a result of gun violence. The focused, sparse installation of the bright Tondos, anchored by one larger looming black and white iteration, evokes a feeling of immediacy.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Hank Willis Thomas’ sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, What We Ask Is Simple. In this newest body of work, Thomas continues to investigate 20th century protests in Africa, North America and Europe. These works remind us that the societal tumult we witness in the news and in the streets is part of a hardfought, perennial battle for equality; and that we should not forget to acknowledge the overwhelming mass of people who use their creativity, courage, and community to inspire change.