Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art

In our upcoming exhibition Outside the Lines: Late Paintings of Jean Dubuffet, we showcase exceptional works from the artist’s later period, spanning the years from 1979 to 1983. The exhibition features paintings from three distinct series: Brefs exercices d’école journalière, Psycho-sites, and Mires. The centerpiece of the exhibition consists of five paintings from the Psycho-sites series which we recently acquired. The Psycho-sites comprise approximately 500 paintings produced, in a burst of creativity, between February 1981 and January of 1982.

Close to the Heart – Jim Dine’s Lifelong Connection to the Heart Motif Jim Dine’s love affair with the heart began in 1965 when he designed the sets for the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As a student he had seen a series of red hearts on white backgrounds which inspired him to design a heart-shaped swing with a red cushion suspended from a silver chain for the character Puck. From that time, the heart became “a universal symbol that I could put paint onto” and “as good a structure geographically as any I could find in nature. It is a kind of landscape and within that landscape I could grow anything, and I think I did.” (Dine, Paris Reconnaissance, Steidl, Göttingen, 2018) It is our privilege to present this series of heart paintings which Dine created for our gallery at his studio in Montrouge, Paris.

This group show features classic works from contemporary masters including paintings on paper and on canvas and sculpture.

Jonathan Novak is proud to present a summer exhibition On Paper: 1946-2019. The gallery will be exhibiting an important collection of paintings, drawings and monotypes. Please join us for our first exhibition open to the public since March 2020.

A selection of Jim Dine’s body of work that spans 50 years, bringing together examples of the artist’s well-known motifs: hearts, robes, tools, and Venus sculptures as well as recent abstractions.

Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art gallery celebrates the genius of Sam Francis in the new exhibit, Sam Francis: The '70s. This carefully curated exhibition of paintings features important works from this period.