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9 September 2023
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Jim Nutt

Untitled, 2023
graphite on paper
38.1 x 35.6 cm

Jim Nutt. Shouldn’t we be more careful?
6 September – 4 October 2023
David Nolan Gallery, New York

Jim Nutt

Untitled, 2022
graphite on paper
38.1 x 35.6 cm

13 August 2023

Roni Horn

from ‘An Elusive Red Figure’, 2022
Two ink jet prints on rag paper. Bleed images, floated edge-to-edge in frame, edition of 12

Roni Horn. ‘An Elusive Red Figure…’
9 June – 16 September 2023
Hauser & Wirth, Zürich

Roni Horn

from ‘An Elusive Red Figure’, 2022
Two ink jet prints on rag paper. Bleed images, floated edge-to-edge in frame, edition of 12

[from the pressrelease]
‘An Elusive Red Figure…’ is a suite of 33 paired ink jet prints, presented across the second-floor gallery space. Following on from the 2021 work ‘LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020)’, ‘An Elusive Red Figure…’ is a collection of outtakes from ‘LOG’ as well as original drawings, including quotations, collages, photographs, casual commentaries, notes on news and weather events and original texts by Horn.

‘LOG,’ which debuted at Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street in 2021, is a large-scale installation comprised of 406 individual works on paper. The work was the result of a daily commitment to drawing undertaken by Horn over a period of fourteen months. Drawing has been a defining element of Horn’s artistic practice since the 1980s and ‘An Elusive Red Figure…’ is emblematic of Horn’s relationship with the medium, which she has described as ‘a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.’ Whilst creating the drawings on paper that would become the paired ink jet prints for ‘An Elusive Red Figure…,’ Horn would describe the events of weather, private life and anything notable that came to mind or hand at the time.

Drawing has been a defining element of Horn’s artistic practice since the 1980s and ‘An Elusive Red Figure…’ is emblematic of Horn’s relationship with the medium, which she has described as ‘a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.’ Whilst creating the drawings on paper that would become the paired ink jet prints for ‘An Elusive Red Figure…’, Horn would describe the events of weather, private life and anything notable that came to mind or hand at the time. One set of prints notes the temperature during a trip that the artist took to Zurich in July in 2019, others feature photographs of the artist, or cultural figures such as Aretha Franklin or Elizabeth Taylor, pasted alongside drawings or notations. Another page coloured bright yellow is inscribed with the line ‘I am paralyzed with hope’ from a monologue by the stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, which Horn describes as a ‘poignant connection to our time with regards to politics and the environment and now, of course, in relation to the pandemic’.

Roni Horn

from ‘An Elusive Red Figure’, 2022
Two ink jet prints on rag paper. Bleed images, floated edge-to-edge in frame, edition of 12

Roni Horn

from ‘An Elusive Red Figure’, 2022
Two ink jet prints on rag paper. Bleed images, floated edge-to-edge in frame, edition of 12

25 July 2023

Jonas Wood

MV Guest Room B+W, 2011
gouache and colored pencil on paper
59.69 × 41.27 cm

Jonas Wood. Drawings 2003–2023
28 June – 18 August 2023
Karma, New York

Jonas Wood
TV Room 2, 2007
gouache and colored pencil on paper
58.42 × 77.17 cm

[from the pressrelease] Drawings 2003–2023 assembles one hundred artworks, exhibited chronologically, in the largest survey of Jonas Wood’s works on paper to date. The exhibition begins with drawings made by the artist following his move to Los Angeles. While he established his studio practice in the city, Wood worked as an assistant to painter Laura Owens, and had his first solo exhibition with the storied Black Dragon Society gallery in 2006. During this time, Wood began to crystallize the distinctive visual language that would come to define his mature practice. An avid draftsman, drawings have myriad purposes for Wood, serving as either preparatory sketches for collages and paintings or stand-alone works of art. At the heart of Wood’s prolific output is a reverence for the handmade: holding a found photograph in his hands, operating a manual projector, leaving behind a half-erased pencil sketch. In Plant 4 (2003), one in a series of drawings of potted plants that make up the earliest works in the exhibition, Wood’s delight in the tactility of mark-making is palpable: he used distinct strokes of crayon and spirited, imperfect shading to give shape to fields of blocky color, leaving behind an explicit citation of the hand of the artist: a single fingerprint. Works like Hunting With Mochi(2005), which depicts a cabin in the woods surrounded by a landscape made up of quilt-like patchworks of translucent color, exemplifies the influence of photo-collage on Wood’s practice. His drawings often begin with photographs, which he then cuts apart and re-composes into deliberately disjointed collages. Projecting the new, flattened-out, stylized image onto paper, Wood sketches its form using an array of media, including gouache, ink, charcoal, and ballpoint pen, producing a wide-angle lens effect that mimics the skewed proportions of memory.

Jonas Wood
Fish Tank, 2012
gouache, ink and colored pencil on paper
103.84 × 81.92 cm

Jonas Wood
Orange Bonsai in SK Dino Pot, 2023
gouache, ink and colored pencil on paper
60.96 × 45.72 cm

Jonas Wood
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Pot 5, 2016
gouache and colored pencil on paper
33.66 × 38.1 cm

16 July 2023

Katharina Wulff

Untitled, 2018
colored pencil on paper
42 x 29.7 cm

Katharina Wulff. Oh Masculin
8 July 2023 – 26 August 2023
Galerie Bucholz, Berlin

Katharina Wulff
Untitled, 2023
pencil and colored pencil on paper
160 x 106.5 cm

Katharina Wulff
Nmla (Die Ameise)”, 2018
colored pencil and felt tip pen on paper
47 x 33 cm

4 July 2023

Elizabeth Peyton

Kiss (Elvis), 2023
Pastel, color pastel, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper
35.9 x 26 cm

Elizabeth Peyton: Angel
7 June – 28 July 2023
David Zwirner, London
 

Elizabeth Peyton

Ang in the Mountains, 2023
Color pencil and oil pastel on paper
30.5 x 22.9 cm

Elizabeth Peyton

Mani Rimdu, 2023
Oil pastel and colored pencil on paper
30.5 x 22.9 cm

Elizabeth Peyton

TC (Timothée), 2022-2023
Colored pencil and pastel on paper
31 x 23.2 cm

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