JOAN NELSON

Posted on 2025-01-20

For over four decades, Joan Nelson has created majestic and potent visions of the natural world, playfully subverting the long-standing art historical genre of landscape painting. This March, Herald St presents an exhibition of new works made by the artist in her studio nestled amongst the Catskill Mountains in Stamford,
New York.

In her newest works, produced for her second solo exhibition at Herald St, Nelson remains interested in geological phenomena: depicting the sky, clouds, caves, sunsets, mountains, valleys, and rivers. Drawing from both observed reality and imagination, Nelson’s meticulously rendered compositions depict a world seemingly untouched by human life. ‘I don’t want a human presence, or even an animal presence,’ Nelson previously observed. ‘Because then the painting has a specific focal point, and it’s about that focal point.’ Indeed, while this allows her paintings a universality to project one’s own experiences and memories, Nelson’s paintings also imagine a world pre-, or perhaps post-, human civilisation. ‘I think of a world in which humans don’t exist, and I’m a little gleeful about it,’ she once conceded.

Opposite – Untitled, 2024

Exhibition runs through to April 26th, 2025

Herald St
2 Herald St
E2 6JT London
England

www.heraldst.com

  

WHERE EARTH MEETS SKY

Posted on 2025-01-13

Where Earth Meets Sky, a group exhibition of contemporary painting that reimagines the landscape as a dynamic space shaped by culture, memory, and perception. Featuring the works of 26 artists on the ground and first floor of the Neubau at Bergson Kunstkraftwerk, the exhibition challenges traditional views of the landscape, not as a static, natural entity, but as a constantly evolving concept. Each artist brings a unique, abstract approach to the theme of “landscape,” pushing the boundaries of representation and distilling the natural world into new visual languages. The landscape is not simply depicted – it becomes a vehicle for exploring our environment’s psychological, emotional, and political dimensions. Through layers of texture, color, and form, the artists shift our focus from the physical landscape to its symbolic meanings – revealing how our perception of nature is shaped by history, memory, and collective identity.

Opposite – Maria Joannou, August Moon

Exhibition runs through to August 3rd, 2025

KÖNIG GALERIE
Am Bergson Kunstkraftwerk 2
81245 Munich
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

MENCHU LAMAS – HABITANDO EL COLOR

Posted on 2025-01-06

Central to the exhibition Habitando el Color and Menchu Lamas’ work is the use of colour and the creation of spaces. In contrast to Cubism, which is based on deconstruction, Menchu Lamas takes a constructive approach. She combines various elements from her own artistic universe, many of which are repeated, to generate spaces. Her style blends figuration and abstraction. Colour also plays a key role in her
artistic vision, establishing a unique visual identity

Opposite – Soñando na espiral, 2018

Exhibition runs through to March 29th, 2025

Galería Marta Cervera
Calle Valencia 28
28012 Madrid
Spain

www.galeriamartacervera.com

  

TAU LEWIS – SPIRIT LEVEL

Posted on 2024-12-30

Inspired by a range of sources including the many faces of the Caribbean Sea, techno and dub music, novels, and studies of religion and spirituality, among other subjects, Lewis expands her narrative and world-building possibilities. These figures, some of whom appear in other guises throughout Lewis’s various bodies of work, populate the artist’s domain with not only their presence and associated fables
but also with what she terms their “material DNA,” the genetic thread that binds them together. The works in Spirit Level originated in the wake of a major loss experienced by the artist. The forms embody Lewis processing a significant life transition, in which she refigures and repurposes material and emotional inheritances. Through the act of synthesizing found and inherited belongings, she reckons with the ending of an object’s journey as it changes hands, the mysterious space in between these transitions, and its reemergence in a new form.

Opposite – Alla världar ger ett sken, A / All Worlds Emit, A, 2023

Exhibition runs through to March 29th, 2025

David Zwirner
616 North Western Avenue
CA 90004
Los Angeles

www.davidzwirner.com

  

EVA LÖFDAHL – AN AUDILE DOUBLE

Posted on 2024-12-23

Spanning over 40 years, Eva Löfdahl’s practice has generated an oeuvre of sculpture, paintings and performance that resists simple linguistic categorisation. Her works can seem initially inscrutable but are often materialisations of actual phenomena – models of complex postulates and illustrations of otherwise invisible dynamics.
Löfdahl invokes the sacred with the profane, employing materials that are often modest and close to hand – modified everyday objects like wire rods, magnets, or string, supported in plaster or polystyrene. The act of making the work is simultaneously a way to get to grips with its subject and is an attempt to make the abstract and diffuse concrete and graspable.

Opposite – Alla världar ger ett sken, A / All Worlds Emit, A, 2023

Exhibition runs through to March 29th, 2025

Galerie Nordenhake
Lützengatan 1
SE-115 20 Stockholm
Sweden

nordenhake.com

  

MR. – IT WAS ON A BRILLIANT DAY

Posted on 2024-12-16

Perrotin announces Mr.’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, a decade since his debut institutional show in the west coast of the United States. This presentation, his ninth exhibition with the gallery, opens the week of Frieze Los Angeles, and highlights his practice in recent years in painting, sculpture, and work on paper. New paintings are the focal feature in the north gallery, and in the south gallery, an installation based on the artist’s studio in Saitama, Japan.

Opposite – In Search of the Map to the Future, 2025

Exhibition runs through to March 29th, 2025

Perrotin
5036 W Pico Blvd
CA 90019
Los Angeles

www.perrotin.com