ALLISON KATZ – FOUNDATIONS. WITH EDNA KATZ SILVER

Posted on 2025-10-13

It was only a matter of time before Allison Katz would realise Foundations, an exhibition that brings to the fore her continuous challenge to the myth of the artist and her containment as an autonomous voice. “There is no such thing as a blank canvas”, according to Katz. “Something is always already there, beginning with the unconscious (the ineffable). Then come the building blocks of our DNA, our structural conditions, the bodies of loved ones, the ghosts of those who left, and every painting already painted. All these forces lead one to form tastes, pleasures and fears; a self-portrait made by others. Foundations are our beginnings, the roots that lie below ground – and it is the same term (in English at least) for what might happen at the end, with the construction of a legacy.”

Opposite – Arsi–Versi (Burning Love), 2025

Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2025

Giò Marconi
via Tadino 20
I-20124 Milan
Italy

www.giomarconi.com

  

SASHA GORDON – HAZE

Posted on 2025-10-06

In her hyperrealistic paintings, New York–based artist Sasha Gordon often renders her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. Executed with technical precision, the artist’s visceral compositions treat her own corporeal form as an unorthodox avatar that communicates subjective, psychological experience.

In her debut exhibition with the gallery, Gordon lets her surreal narratives unfold intuitively on the canvas, depicting bodies in sometimes absurd scenarios or disorienting spatial compositions and portraying faces that translate a range of feelings. In illuminating detail, she reimagines fragments extracted from her inner life while boldly envisioning worlds within worlds that bear uncanny resemblance to our own.

Opposite – It Was Still Far Away, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2025

David Zwirner
533 West 19th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.davidzwirner.com

  

CLAIRE LINDNER – FLAMING WINGS

Posted on 2025-10-06

Claire Lindner’s evocative ceramic creations take the viewer by surprise, blurring the lines between the organic and synthetic, animal and plant life, science and fiction. The sculptures’ sinuous movements and colours seem to transform before our eyes, generating a sense of mystery combined with the awe of discovery. The exhibition Flaming Wings, which follows the solo show hosted in the gallery in 2022, refers to the various dynamic metamorphoses in the French artist’s recent works. The flaming form suggests a shift in typology, where the organic embraces both the plant and animal kingdoms. The colours shift in tone from orange to rust, from purple to green, from yellow to blue. The manipulation of the material and forms, and the porous nature of the surface that softly absorbs light, suggest fluctuations between different periods of growth, decay and stasis: a blazing symbiosis that alludes to transition, the unpredictability of nature and the visionary nature of human creativity.

Opposite – Heat wave, 2025

Exhibition runs through to November 14th, 2025

MAAB Gallery
Via Nerino 3
20123 Milan
Italy

www.maabgallery.com

  

CASSI NAMODA – NIGHT ALWAYS RETURNS

Posted on 2025-10-06

Painter and visual artist Cassi Namoda crafts images that bridge the personal, the spiritual, and the continental. Drawing from a bricolage of literatures and art histories, her work interweaves memory, dream, cinema, and ecology to transfigure the mythologies as well as the contemporary and historical narratives of post-colonial Mozambique. Vital to her practice is a signature filmic storytelling voice, where recurring characters, locations, and motifs inhabit her canvases like vignettes that merge the documentarian with the magic realist.

Namoda’s newest exhibition, Night Always Returns, unfolds across four nocturnes, each exploring ideas of animality and the sensual aliveness that emerges after dark. Throughout the exhibition, human, animal, and elemental figures are shown in paired relationships that reveal symbolic mirrors and the porous boundary between human and natural worlds.

Opposite – Moon path and three Maria’s capricious spiral, 2025

Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2025

303 Gallery
555 W 21st Street
NY 10011
New York

www.303gallery.com

  

PETER HALLEY

Posted on 2025-09-29

A central figure in post-conceptual painting since the 1980s, Halley continues to explore geometry as a political language – one that reveals and interrogates the material, digital, and psychological structures that shape contemporary life. Halley, founding publisher of the influential Index magazine (1996–2005) and former director of Yale’s esteemed M.F.A. painting program, has moved fluidly across disciplines throughout his career. Whether through painting, writing, teaching, or publishing, he has consistently maintained a critical focus on the intersections of art, technology, and ideology.

Halley’s paintings have long traced the systems – both visible and invisible – that govern our lives. For over four decades, he has worked with a visual lexicon of “cells,” “prisons,” and “conduits,” drawing on the legacy of 20th-century geometric abstraction not to transcend reality, but to analyse its mechanisms of control. Where Minimalism envisioned the grid as a space of aesthetic order, Halley reimagined it as a charged network: wired, surveilled, and embedded within the logics of power.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2025

MASSIMODECARLO
16 Clifford Street
W1S 3RG
London

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

CAROL BOVE – NIGHTS OF CABIRIA

Posted on 2025-09-29

In Nights of Cabiria, Bove reflects on the industrial heritage of Los Angeles as a Cold War–era center for precision aerospace and weapons manufacturing, along with subcultural expressions of that focus such as surfboard production, with its devotion to perfect surface finish. The exhibition design responds to the unique architectural features of the Beverly Hills gallery and makes use of reclaimed structural scaffolding components called “soldier beams.” This scaffolding, intended for applications in civil engineering, provides the components for an architectural folly that supports two of the sculptures and partially reconfigures the gallery space.

Opposite – Idiopathic Abstraction, 2020-25

Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2025

Gagosian
456 North Camden Drive
CA 90210
Beverly Hills
USA

gagosian.com