CHRISTINE AY TJOE – COVERED AND COVER

Posted on 2025-03-24

Exploring notions of family silence and painting-as-catharsis, Christine Ay Tjoe’s first solo exhibition in the US debuts a new series revolving around the primacy of expressive gesture and a motif of blood. Borne out of processing the death of a parent and navigating the unspoken, the artist meditates on intergenerational relationships and the role of family silence in burying conflict and pain.

Opposite – Covered and Cover #09, 2025

Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2025

White Cube
1002 Madison Avenue
NY 10075
New York

www.whitecube.com

  

DANIEL ARSHAM – MEMORY ARCHITECTURE

Posted on 2025-03-17

Memory Architecture centers on Arsham’s distinctive concept of Fictional Archaeology, which symbolizes the core of his artistic universe. The exhibition explores the artist’s interpretation of time and material, presenting works in which forms reminiscent of classical sculpture coexist with artifacts of contemporary civilization. These works evoke the appearance of relics excavated by future archaeologists, visualizing stratified layers of time that exist between the past and the future. Featuring paintings, drawings, and sculptures, the exhibition showcases Arsham’s unique sculptural language that traverses the boundaries of reality and imagination, history and contemporaneity. Through this presentation, viewers are invited to encounter the possibilities of a visual archaeology that seeks to interpret and reconstruct the world anew.

Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2025

Perrotin
Seoul Dosan Park
10 Dosan-Daero 45-Gil
Gangnam-Gu Seoul
South Korea

www.perrotin.com

  

MARK MANDERS – THREE RELATED WORKS

Posted on 2025-03-10

The exhibition is a continuation of Mark Manders’ ongoing project Self-Portrait as a Building, a project he began in 1986 by creating a hypothetical floor plan using small objects, such as pencils, rulers, and pieces of wood. Gradually expanding in both scale and scope, to-date, iterations of the project have materialised in sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, writing, and publishing. For this exhibition, Manders has chosen to exhibit sculptures, paintings, and a mixed-media installation.

Opposite – Ramble Room Chair, 2010–2025

Exhibition runs through to July 12th, 2025

Modern Art
7 Bury Street
SW1Y 6AL
London

www.modernart.net

  

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