Exhibitions

Current

Peep Show
WINDOW, 91 Walker Street New York, NY (corner of Walker and Lafayette Street) September 8 - October 31, 2021 Anton Kern Gallery invites you to visit our WINDOW space, 91 Walker Street at Lafayette, for a playful, slightly naughty peek into Peep Show, a group exhibition curated by Brigitte Mulholland and Kristen Smoragiewicz. Peep Show is visible from the street 24/7 through October 31.⁠ Read more

Sweet Dreams, Nosferatu
Yuli Yamagata September 10 - October 23, 2021 Public Opening: September 10, from 6 - 8 PM Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Sweet Dreams, Nosferatu, the Brazilian artist Yuli Yamagata’s first solo exhibition in New York. Yamagata’s concept for the exhibition is activated in two parts and across two geographic venues. Part one is hosted at... Read more

Anne Collier
September 10 - October 23, 2021 Public Opening: September 10, 6 — 8 PM Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the New York-based artist Anne Collier. This will be Collier’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the past two decades Anne Collier has developed a complex body of... Read more

Past

Tales of Manhattan
A 25th Anniversary Exhibition July 8 - August 20, 2021 On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the gallery, we are excited to present a group exhibition celebrating the past, present, and future of Anton Kern Gallery with Tales of Manhattan, featuring: Pawel Althamer • Nobuyoshi Araki • Alvaro Barrington • Margot Bergman • Ellen Berkenblit • John Bock... Read more

Houses of Content
Bendix Harms May 20 - June 26, 2021 The fifth exhibition by German artist Bendix Harms at Anton Kern Gallery presents sixteen new paintings. Painted over the last year and a half in his studio in Østerfælden, the artist’s farm in the north of Denmark, they are the outcome of the life shared with his wife Mari, Mamon... Read more

Art Basel Art Blasé
Erik van Lieshout May 20 - June 26, 2021 Anton Kern Gallery is thrilled to debut Erik van Lieshout’s film Art Basel (2020) in his new exhibition on the third floor, Art Basel Art Blasé. The film is accompanied by an installation of related paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures, as well as a second film, Art Blasé (2020), a... Read more

New Paintings and One Film
Wilhelm Sasnal April 8 - May 15, 2021 March 26th, 2021—The eighth exhibition by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal at Anton Kern Gallery presents sixteen paintings and one film. Known as a painter of individual, lucidly formulated images (rather than of explorations in theme and variation, or in process) and a maker of films that speak a measured and... Read more

Carousel
Alessandro Pessoli April 8 - May 15, 2021 “In this new cycle of works, I tried to find a balance between drawing and painting. I looked for solutions on how to create, in the same image, the lightness of the drawing sketched into the shapes and the stratification of the painting, which is full of memories. These are... Read more

Text Drawings
David Shrigley March 9 - April 3, 2021 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present a recent group of Japanese ink drawings by David Shrigley. Each of the twenty works, rendered in brushy black all-caps lettering against a neutral background, delivers a message from the artist. Similar to Shrigley's well-known Signs and News series, the text drawings are... Read more

Montrose VA 1958-1988
David Byrd February 25 - April 3, 2021 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition David Byrd: Montrose VA, 1958 – 1988. The opening date, February 25th, coincides with the late-artist’s 95th birthday. The exhibition centers around Byrd’s original manuscript, of the same title, chronicling his observations during his thirty-year career in the psychiatric ward... Read more

Maquette and Paper Pulp Works
Nicole Eisenman February 25 - April 3, 2021 Nicole Eisenman’s “Maquette” premiered 2018 at FIAC in Paris, the year after the artist’s monumental “Sketch for a Fountain” at Skulptur Projekte Münster had received much attention. Inspired by the fountain yet distinctly different, “Maquette” consists of four bronze bathers in varying positions of repose extending a classical theme to... Read more

11
January 12 - February 20, 2021 Sometimes the original beckons for a sequel…Two years after the success of our group exhibition 10, we are pleased to follow up with 11, featuring eleven artists whose work we think scores a perfect ten. Spanning a variety of media-film, installation, painting, collage, drawing, mixed media, and photography-the artists and... Read more

Twilight Proximity Corpus
John Bock January 12 - February 20, 2021 In his tenth exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German sculptor and performance artist John Bock presents twenty-five new 3D collages. While constructed out of simple materials, these works contain the entire Bockian universe. The exhibition will run through February 20. Twilight Proximity Corpus gathers a group of illustrious characters: Klaus... Read more

NOW ON VIEW AT 16 EAST 55TH STREET
December 9 - 23, 2020 Read more

Cups
Margot Bergman November 19 - 30, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to introduce a special group of works on paper by Margot Bergman, created between the 1980s – 1990s. Historically, teacups and other tabletop vessels have been depicted as static objects within a still life composition. In Bergman's works, the common cup is recast as the... Read more

Waiting
Brian Calvin October 29 - December 5, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Waiting, Brian Calvin’s seventh solo exhibition in New York. Faces abound, energizing the first and second floor galleries with hyperbolic color, mosaic eyes, and varnished lips. The cool neutrality of their expressions brings an equal and opposite force; a stillness to the space.... Read more

Year Unknown
Jim Lambie October 29 - December 5, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Jim Lambie: Year Unknown on the gallery’s third floor. The exhibition features new metal boxes and sunglasses sculptures, and is a decidedly intimate one, with small scale pieces and titles that make connections to personally significant cities and streets. Lambie’s work often references... Read more

SQUARE ONE
Julie Curtiss at 198 Allen Street, New York, NY, 10002 October 20 - 31, 2020 In lieu of a long-planned solo booth at FIAC this year, Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Julie Curtiss: Square One, a reconceived exhibition on view to the public from October 20 - October 31. In a year of extraordinary challenges, the title echoes the global reset we are... Read more

Boy Walking and Cinnamon: Sculptures and Painting
Tal R September 9 - October 24, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with Danish artist Tal R, entitled Boy Walking and Cinnamon: Sculptures and Paintings. The exhibition will consist of fifteen paintings and twelve bronze sculptures and will open September 9, running through October 24, 2020. Tal R is best known... Read more

Flora
Aliza Nisenbaum September 9 - October 24, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Aliza Nisenbaum: Flora, an exhibition of new works on paper on the gallery’s third floor. Nisenbaum is best known for her portrait paintings, which are fundamentally studies about intimacy. She spends many hours getting to know her sub-jects: sitting with them in person,... Read more

New Drawings
Lothar Hempel July 7 - 19, 2020 I probably invent these people as much as a writer creates his characters, I twist or understate, I'm tender or cold, I see everything, but I'm blind in one eye. I only have a pencil and watercolors, but my memories and my inner projector are powerful instruments. All of these... Read more

The Human Touch, 1935-1945
Weegee June 29 - August 21, 2020 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of vintage photographs by the American photographer Weegee (b.1899 - d.1968). Weegee (Arthur Fellig) was born in the Eastern European town of Zolochev, in present-day Ukraine. In 1909, at age ten, he and his family emigrated to New York City... Read more

Old Technology
June 29 - August 21, 2020 After months of living through screens, we are thrilled to open our doors again and present art as it is meant to be seen: in person. Old Technology, a group exhibition, embraces materiality and invokes the joy of the tactile. It celebrates the analog and the exhilaration felt in the... Read more

Message From My Room
Nathalie Du Pasquier June 2 - 30, 2020 Pace Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, and A Palazzo Gallery Co-Present Three Solo Exhibitions of Nathalie Du Pasquier in June Pace Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, and A Palazzo Gallery are pleased to present three concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Nathalie Du Pasquier this June. Pace Gallery’s online exhibition Spaces Between... Read more

Lockdown Drawings
May 26 - June 7, 2020 Online Exhibition Only. Read more

Incelesbian
Nicole Eisenman February 20 - March 28, 2020 Nicole Eisenman’s fourth exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery presents 24 paper pulp drawings from a body of new works created in collaboration with renowned Dieu Donné workshop in Brooklyn. Dieu Donné is a non-for-profit institution that has long served the artist community through a collaborative approach to creating artworks using... Read more

Sistergarden
Ellen Berkenblit February 20 - March 28, 2020 Ellen Berkenblit’s eighth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Sistergarden, populates the main space with eleven large-scale paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. Each face emerges from a velvety abyss with unbridled intensity and a noticeable shift in palette. The artist’s signature electric colors now merge with earth... Read more

Drawings
Andy Warhol February 20 - March 28, 2020 Read more

Samba In The Dark
curated by Fernanda Arruda, Patricia Pericas, and Nessie Pope January 14 - February 15, 2020 Samba In The Dark is inspired by a well-known Brazilian protest song, Apesar de Você (In Spite of You), written and recorded in 1970 by Chico Buarque at the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1968-1984). The song unapologetically criticizes the Generals’ repressive government with powerful, metaphorical lyrics. Although... Read more

The Great Perhaps
Richard Hughes November 7 - December 21, 2019 “I go to seek the great perhaps” were the last words of French philosopher François Rabelais. An optimism pervades this sentiment: a sense of wonder in the unknown and the beyond. This forms the core of Richard Hughes’ fourth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, a mature and evolutionary turn... Read more

1979-1994
Chris Martin November 7 - December 21, 2019 Take the L train to Grand Street and walk a few blocks over to Graham Avenue. Head to the building with a vacant looking green storefront, and enter the magic that is Chris Martin’s studio. Occupying the space since 1984, it is an institution of history, of paint, of making.... Read more

One Night Only
Ellen Berkenblit October 24, 2019 Ellen Berkenblit (born 1958 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American painter who lives and works in New York City. Her work is included in the public collections of the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art,... Read more

Coreografías
Aliza Nisenbaum September 13 - November 2, 2019 New York, July 12, 2019—For her New York gallery debut at Anton Kern Gallery, Mexican-born and New York-based activist and painter Aliza Nisenbaum will present Coreografías, a new body of individual and group portrait paintings. All works are the results of the artist’s participation in a variety of group and... Read more

WirrWarr
September 13 - November 2, 2019 Read more

Family Album
Margot Bergman June 26 - August 16, 2019 Anton Kern Gallery is excited to welcome back Chicago-based artist Margot Bergman for her second solo exhibition with the gallery. In Family Album, Bergman presents recent paintings and photographs. Margot Bergman (b. 1934) has sustained an active painting practice in Chicago since the 1950s and honed a peerless style of... Read more

As The Plane Was Reaching Cruising Altitude
Nathalie Du Pasquier June 26 - August 16, 2019 In Nathalie Du Pasquier’s first exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, the artist presents an installation of colorful geometric works on paper and monochromatic wooden objects, using the floorplan of the gallery as a field for her composition. Juxtaposing two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional constructions, the artist examines the relationship between pictorial... Read more

Wildlife
Julie Curtiss April 25 - June 15, 2019 Wildlife marks Paris-born, New York-based artist Julie Curtiss’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery. New York City, nature, and tropes of femininity inspire Curtiss’ subversive and wildly imaginative paintings, sculptures, and gouaches. Rockaway Beach, Chinatown, East Village hair salons, and Upper West Side shops are the urban jungle through which... Read more

FLUFF WAR
David Shrigley April 25 - June 15, 2019 In his seventh solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, entitled FLUFF WAR, British artist David Shrigley presents a large-scale kinetic sculpture, two neon sculptures, and 100 new drawings. As visitors approach the gallery, they are greeted by a two-part magenta neon sign bearing contradictory instructions: one reads “WEAR SHOES” and... Read more

7 Bangers
Dan McCarthy March 15 - April 20, 2019 For his sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York artist Dan McCarthy presents a series of new sculptures entitled 7 Bangers. Seven Bangers Artist Statement This group of seven ceramic sculptures titled Seven Bangers was started in 2016. The Bangers are a linear extension of the Facepots... Read more

Skin Shape
Jim Lambie March 15 - April 20, 2019 “The everyday and universal objects are often overlooked and ignored. I am bringing these elements into sharp focus. Placing them in a more central role. It’s surprising how universal some objects are. A ladder for instance, a chair, a table. I always love to visit the flea markets and junk... Read more

David Byrd
February 7 - March 9, 2019 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition with New York painter David Byrd, and our representation of the David Byrd Estate. We will introduce Byrd’s work with a selection of portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings ranging from 1952 - 2009. Byrd’s style bears influence from different art... Read more

BEER
Erik van Lieshout February 7 - March 9, 2019 “Conflict is my talent.” -Erik Van Lieshout For his second solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Erik Van Lieshout will debut his new film, Beer, which documents the inner controversies that surrounded his acceptance of the prestigious Heineken Prize in 2018. The footage shot over the course of the year... Read more

Uptown Campus
Robert Janitz December 13, 2018 - January 26, 2019 Anton Kern Gallery and CANADA are pleased to present their first solo exhibitions with Robert Janitz. Uptown Campus will open at Anton Kern Gallery, on Thursday, December 13th; and College Robert Janitz at CANADA opens Friday, December 14th. Robert Janitz’ seemingly simple shapes belie a meticulously built contemplation on painting.... Read more

re-kapito
Manfred Pernice December 13, 2018 - January 26, 2019 Manfred Pernice was born in 1963 in Hildesheim, Germany. He studied at the Institut für Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig from 1984 to 1987 before moving to Berlin to study at the Universität in 1993. His sculpture and installation borrow from the utilitarian visual language of architecture, shipping containers, and commercial... Read more

Dead + Juicy
John Bock October 31 - December 1, 2018 For our eighth exhibition with German artist John Bock, Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Dead + Juicy, a film and sculptural installation commissioned by The Contemporary Austin, which premiered at the museum in 2017. Now staged in New York, the film will run alongside a series of re-envisioned... Read more

The Clock Unlocked
Ellen Berkenblit September 12 - October 20, 2018 When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in... Read more

frNMEz
Matthew Monahan September 12 - October 20, 2018 In frNMEz, Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Monahan presents a new group of freestanding sculptures and paintings on aluminum. Known for his mastery of both traditional and industrial materials, Monahan’s new works reflect a physical and mental tug of war with the history of figuration. For this show Monahan pushes beyond... Read more

I , Photography
Nobuyoshi Araki July 12 - August 31, 2018 I, Photography presents four distinct bodies of work by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. The exhibition takes its title from a phrase in the opening manifesto of Sentimental Journey, a document of the intimate and mundane moments of his honeymoon. In the spirit of that text, the four series of photographs... Read more

The Party
Curated by Ali Subotnick July 12 - August 31, 2018 Inspired by Blake Edwards’ 1968 film The Party, this exhibition, curated by Ali Subotnick, explores the comedic impulse in contemporary art. The show is haunted by the spirit and rampant absurdities of the film, which has become a cult classic for Peter Sellers’ performance as disaster prone Indian actor Hrundi... Read more

SANKT RUFUS
Bendix Harms May 24 - June 30, 2018 In 2016, German painter Bendix Harms moved from Hamburg to Østerfælden - a farm in the North of Denmark. This was the territory of Rufus, a cat who had been ruling over the property for the last 16 years, and with whom Harms formed an instantaneous and strong bond. For... Read more

Pots
Francis Upritchard May 24 - June 30, 2018 For her third exhibition at the gallery, Francis Upritchard presents a new series of clay pot sculptures that are the result of her residency at Lux Art Institute this past winter in Encinitas, CA. Upritchard is an adept collaborator and these works are evidence of a natural chemistry between artist... Read more

Anne Collier
April 12 - May 19, 2018 “Anne Collier remakes women as they have been photographed by others… not so much in her own image, but in an image that questions the image.” (Hilton Als) Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the New York-based artist Anne Collier. This will be... Read more

Chris Martin
March 1 - April 7, 2018 For his third exhibition at the Anton Kern Gallery, Chris Martin presents a number of new, large-scale paintings, inspired by the gallery’s two-story atrium and the artist’s new upstate painting studio. Chris Martin is something of a New York institution. His Brooklyn studio floor radiates with years of glitter traces... Read more

Sarah Jones
March 1 - April 7, 2018 In Jean Cocteau’s post war film Orphée (1950) there is a beguiling moment when the then modern day Orpheus, standing in front of a full length framed mirror in his room, slides his hand through his own reflection. This once hard glassy impermeable surface becomes viscoelastic, transmutes into liquid; the... Read more

A Valentine's Day Show
Nicole Eisenman February 15 - 24, 2018 Nicole Eisenman’s A Valentine’s Day Show consists of two dozen drawings and three new paintings, all made from life depicting the artist’s friends in the pastoral seaside setting of Fire Island. The show originated with Eisenman’s desire to present and share a rather private body of work with a large... Read more

10
January 12 - February 14, 2018 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present 10, a group show on the gallery’s third floor featuring ten painters whose work we rate at 11. Spanning multiple generations, each artist selected creates intimate works that are immersed in a variety ofmodes of painting. Historic work from Jeanne Mammen (1890 –... Read more

frozen
Ellen Gronemeyer January 11 - February 24, 2018 For her first solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Berlin-based painter Ellen Gronemeyer presents a group of new paintings that portray youthful characters, children, and the occasional animal in a topsy-turvy world of whirring colors and improbability. Captured alone or in friendly groupings, and often engaged in various stages of... Read more

Too Nice Too Long
Lara Schnitger November 16 - December 23, 2017 For her solo exhibition Too Nice Too Long, Los Angeles-based artist Lara Schnitger (Dutch, b. 1969) transforms Anton Kern Gallery into the headquarters of “Suffragette City,” her traveling hybrid procession-protest piece that draws inspiration from occult rituals and uses unabashed graphic design and boundarypushing sculpture to champion women’s rights. With... Read more

Oral Heart
Lothar Hempel November 16 - December 23, 2017 German artist Lothar Hempel named his recent exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery after a poem of his, “Oral Heart.” Like the poem that initiated an expanding body of the artist’s writing, the show is an amalgamation of image ideas. Paintings, sculptures and drawings are the sparkling fragments of a dynamic... Read more

Against Me
Alessandro Pessoli October 12 - November 11, 2017 In his sixth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Italian-born and Los Angeles-based artist Alessandro Pessoli presents Against Me: new paintings, ceramics, and sculptural installations that include self-portraits, references to traditions of Italian painting, and even handmade bows and arrows. In addition to the main exhibition, the artist will create... Read more

Brian Calvin
September 7 - November 7, 2017 In his fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, the California-based painter Brian Calvin presents a new body of work featuring tightly-cropped portrait paintings, colored pencil drawings, and anthropomorphic wooden sculptures. Among the new group of paintings, the artist introduces tondos (circular shaped canvases), whose cropping eliminates any sense of... Read more

Drawings by Mike!
Mike Kuchar September 7 - October 7, 2017 New York, August 3, 2017— Mike Kuchar, recipient of the United States Artist award in 1993, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, was born in 1942. His teachers in public school recognized his ability to draw and suggested he attend a high school geared for commercial art because, “fine artists... Read more

Faces: Painted Reliefs
Nicole Eisenman June 1 - July 7, 2017 New York, May 27, 2017—Coinciding with their large presentation of five over-life-size bathers at Skulptur Projekte Münster in Germany this summer, New York artist Nicole Eisenman presents a concise group of painted reliefs at Anton Kern Gallery. These surprising explorations of improbably shaped forms and color underscore the artist’s aptitude... Read more

Ellen Berkenblit
May 25 - July 6, 2017 In her sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York based painter Ellen Berkenblit presents a new body of work that connects her love of textiles to her painting practice. The artist’s clever placement of works across the two gallery spaces creates rhythm and drama throughout the exhibition, while... Read more

ÄMEN
Bendix Harms May 3 - 27, 2017 ÄMEN is an exhibition of color pencil drawings by German artist Bendix Harms. Known for his thickly spackled and scratched paintings—whose cast of characters include birds, cats, mushrooms and himself—these works on paper open up an animated world in which the gravity and pleasure of life ebb and flow. We... Read more

Wilhelm Sasnal
April 22 - May 20, 2017 April 4 — Anton Kern Gallery presents its inaugural exhibition at 16 East 55th Street with new paintings by the Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal. This prescient grouping of works features portraits of prominent politicians, such as Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, Marine Le Pen, and former UN leaders: Ban Kimoon, Kofi... Read more

AKG On The Move
January 31 - April 19, 2017 Week one: January 31 Matthew Monahan Monahan's fractured and embattled figures traverse through time and space, at once confronting us with something ancient and futuristic, earthbound and celestial, dreamlike and tactile, mythic and candid. This intrinsic dichotomy allows us to find ourselves in the ever-present hidden narrative each work possesses.... Read more

Implosion 20
November 10 - December 22, 2016 Anton Kern Gallery is turning twenty and we celebrate this anniversary with Implosion 20, a group exhibition featuring the work of all 28 artists on roster, as well as works by artists who have shown previously or have had a personal connection to the gallery. In addition, we will present... Read more

Portraits
Jonas Wood September 8 - October 22, 2016 For his fifth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Jonas Wood presents a group of portraits that depict his family, close friends, and the artist himself. Through exuberant color, line, and scale, these paintings express the artist’s interpretation of intimate moments from his life, and memorialize figures who are paramount... Read more

Early Work
Brian Calvin June 30 - August 26, 2016 For her debut solo exhibition in New York, Anton Kern Gallery has invited Chicago-based painter Margot Bergman (b.1934) to present a body of recent portraits. Paired with Bergman’s work is a selection of early drawings and paintings by Brian Calvin (b.1969), from the Popeye series created during his time in... Read more

Margot Bergman
June 30 - August 26, 2016 For her debut solo exhibition in New York, Anton Kern Gallery has invited Chicago-based painter Margot Bergman (b.1934) to present a body of recent portraits. Paired with Bergman’s work is a selection of early drawings and paintings by Brian Calvin (b.1969), from the Popeye series created during his time in... Read more

Nicole Eisenman
May 19 - June 25, 2016 For their debut exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, New York artist Nicole Eisenman will present a new body of paintings, a group of drawings and one plaster sculpture. The works range from the monumental to the intimate in size and address day-to-day life in New York City with all its... Read more

Anne Collier
April 9 - May 14, 2016 In her fourth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, the New York-based artist Anne Collier presents a body of new photographs that expands upon her ongoing inquiry into the nature and culture(s) of photographic images, exploring questions of perception and representation and the mechanics of the gaze. In addition to... Read more

Women
February 25 - April 2, 2016 Read more

Expulsion from Paradise Freeze
February 25 - April 2, 2016 For his seventh solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German painter Eberhard Havekost has put together a group of 25 paintings under the title Expulsion from Paradise Freeze. The works in the exhibition fall under two categories, representational and non-representational, however, they are arranged in a way that suggests narrative... Read more

Francis Upritchard and Martino Gamper
January 14 - February 20, 2016 Read more

Train in Vein
Jim Lambie November 7 - December 19, 2015 For his upcoming solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie will present a colorful new body of sculptures that will inhabit an immersive installation from floor to ceiling. In a cheeky reversal of The Clash’s song Train in Vain, Lambie titles his exhibition Train in Vein to... Read more

Painted Sculptures
Mark Grotjahn September 10 - October 29, 2015 In his fourth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, painter and sculptor Mark Grotjahn presents a new body of painted bronzes. This is the first gallery exhibition to further elaborate upon the artist’s 2014 sculpture presentation at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. In a radical act of transformation, Grotjahn... Read more

Eros Diary
Nobuyoshi Araki July 9 - August 7, 2015 Photography was destined to be involved with death. Reality is in color, but at its beginnings photography always discolored reality and turned it into black and white. Color is life, black and white is death. A ghost was hiding in the invention of photography. - Nobuyoshi Araki, in an interview... Read more

Three Black Paintings (1992-1996)
Chris Martin July 9 - August 7, 2015 Read more

Marcel Odenbach
May 28 - July 2, 2015 In his seventh exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German video and collage artist Marcel Odenbach presents five large works on paper along with a group of objects. The eye-catching centerpiece is a portrait of rapper and songwriter Tupac Shakur (1971-1996), surrounded by images of shrubs and trees in urban green... Read more

New Paintings
Ellen Berkenblit May 28 - July 2, 2015 Berkenblit's practice hovers between representation and abstraction, often presenting the female figure experiencing a realm of imaginative explosion and escape. Through her unpredictable application of paint, she presents private and flirtatious worlds, where girls can be ladies and ladies can be women—or somewhere in between. Her subjects capture a playful... Read more

David Shrigley
April 16 - May 23, 2015 In his sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, British artist David Shrigley presents 78 drawings, two sculptures and one animation. The drawings, ink and acrylic on paper in two distinct sizes, depict a variety of situations involving humans, animals, parts of their bodies and other stuff. The sculptures are... Read more

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