JOSH SPERLING – BIG PICTURE

Posted on 2025-03-03

In Josh Sperling’s Big Picture, the devil is in the details. The first solo exhibition of the Ithaca-based artist in Perrotin’s Los Angeles space combines Sperling’s quintessential sculptural paintings, demonstrating a decade-long commitment to the mastery of form and color, and his recent exciting venture into design, as function wiggles its way into the artist’s core concerns. Sperling’s whimsical lexicon of technicolor undulating shapes comes alive with fresh energy through an immersive environment where art, design, and craft overlap. The exhibition’s cheeky title references LA’s renown as the hub of the film industry and the gallery’s transformation of the former Del Mar Theater into an exhibition space that features remnants of its past, including the marquee, ticket booth, and theater hall. Big Picture showcases a dynamic evolution in Sperling’s practice, highlighting his desire to work beyond the confines of the wall. Not only have his paintings grown more three-dimensional, literally popping off the wall and looping onto themselves, but he has translated his painting language into full-bodied design objects that turn functionality into aesthetic experiences.

Opposite – Show Boat, 2025

Exhibition runs through to July 3rd, 2025

Perrotin
5036 W Pico Blvd
CA 90019
Los Angeles

www.perrotin.com

  

YAN PEI-MING – WANTED

Posted on 2025-02-24

This new body of work by Franco-Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming is about the dynamics of desire. The small portrait presented in the gallery’s first room is the starting point of the exhibition: it is painted after Lucien Freud’s 1952 portrait of fellow artist and friend Francis Bacon, which was stolen in Berlin in 1988 never to be found – at least to this day. Portraiture is the cornerstone of Yan Pei-Ming’s practice. Best known for his epic, large-scale monochromatic renditions of iconic figures, ranging from popes to emperors and world leaders, he explores the representation of the human spirit
through the medium of portraiture.

Opposite – Wanted Francis Bacon, 2025

Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2025

MASSIMODECARLO
16 Clifford Street
W1S 3RG
London

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

JENNA GRIBBON – RAINBOWS IN SHADOWS

Posted on 2025-02-17

Jenna Gribbon was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1978. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, US.
Gribbon’s paintings explore the feelings and implications of seeing and being seen. Her paintings are intimate portraits of her friends, wife, family and fellow painters, which encourage the viewer to reflect on their role as a consumer of beauty, and intimacy and as voyeurs of the narratives of others. A focus on vision permeates every layer of Gribbon’s work, with titles such as ‘Ritualized Looking’, ‘Deck Peek’ and ‘When I looked at you, the light changed’. The scenes are painted from Gribbon’s first point perspective, making the artist’s presence felt by emphasising her particular viewpoint. The viewer directly replaces the artist, seeing Gribbon’s subject from the exact position that she occupied in the scene, not only looking at the subject but invited to view Gribbon’s own experience of looking at them.

Opposite – Hallway camouflage, 2025

Exhibition runs through to September 6th, 2025

MASSIMODECARLO
Viale Lombardia 17
20131 Milan
Italy8

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

BRUCE NAUMAN – PASADENA YEARS

Posted on 2025-02-10

Bruce Nauman: Pasadena Years is a historical reflection on the prolific decade that established one of the most important contemporary artists of our time. The exhibition emphasizes the radical foundation of Nauman’s practice while he lived in Los Angeles between 1969-1979. Across the entire gallery and garden, works on view will include sculptures, installations, sound works, videos, works on paper, and editions. Pasadena Years notably marks Nauman’s first exhibition in Los Angeles in over 30 years and will include a text for a room that the artist is recreating for the first time since its debut at the earliest retrospective of his work, which originated at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1972.

Opposite – Performance Corridor, 1969

Exhibition runs through to May 3rd, 2025

Marian Goodman Gallery
1120 Seward Street
Los Angeles
CA 90038

www.mariangoodman.com

  

ELIAS SIME – THROUGH THE WINDOW

Posted on 2025-02-03

The title Through The Window speaks to both literal and metaphorical apertures—portals that frame perception, whether through architecture or digital screens. His layered, textured surfaces recall aerial landscapes, circuit pathways, and organic topographies, offering a meditation on interconnectedness and the materials that shape our digital world.

Sime’s method is notably hands-on and meticulous, involving an almost alchemical reworking of materials, where each component is carefully selected, manipulated, and reassembled to create intricate networks that evoke emotions. At first glance, they give the impression of maps, topographies, and even urban grids. This attention to detail not only results in visually arresting pieces but also challenges viewers to reconsider the value and potential of the limitless possibilities of human imagination. By turning everyday industrial remnants into art, he interrogates the relentless pace of technological progress and its environmental ramifications, highlighting how precious minerals are extracted from the earth to fuel its development

Opposite – Tightrope: Through the Window 5

Exhibition runs through to May 24th, 2025

Lawrie Shabibi
Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Al-Quoz 1
Dubai
UAE

www.lawrieshabibi.com

  

GILLIAN CARNEGIE

Posted on 2025-01-27

Carnegie has painted still lifes, landscapes, portraits, nudes, and interiors for the past two decades. With these most recent works, she revisits motifs recurring throughout her practice as a means to investigate the historical tradition of painting. Probing at the conventions of the medium, Carnegie layers her simple subjects with art historical and literary references that subvert their appeared normalcy the longer they are viewed. The seven works on display are self-contained, capturing fleeting moments with emotion and specificity through Carnegie’s restrained visual language.

Opposite – 1972, 2023

Exhibition runs through to April 26th, 2025

Gladstone Gallery
Gladstone 64
130 East 64th Street
NY 10065 New York

www.gladstone64.com