Jack Shainman Gallery

We Buy Gold is pleased to present SEVEN., a group exhibition that will take over Jack Shainman Gallery and Nicola Vassell Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Curated by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, SEVEN. features work by Max Guy, Renee Gladman, David Hammons, Nandi Loaf, Abigail Lucien, Kerry James Marshall, Lorraine O’Grady, Ashley Teamer, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Founded in 2017, We Buy Gold is a roving art space presenting exhibitions, commissioned projects, and public events. Launching with a suite of four exhibitions in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (ONE., TWO., THREE. and The Yard), and going on to produce ambitious collaborations with contemporary artists and curators such as Moses Sumney (SUNSET.), Nina Chanel Abney (FIVE.), and Diana Nawi (SIX.), We Buy Gold mounts projects that encourage the dissection and deconstruction of systems of power by artists working in a cross-section of creative media. SEVEN. explores the ways in which artists disrupt the politics of space, time, and language to constitute another world. In their fertile hands, the measure of time lengthens, bodies morph, and the fixed use-value of objects and language slips—highlighting the foundational fractures present within contemporary society. Whether in Max Guy’s time-warped diptych of The Wiz and The Wizard of Oz, Ashley Teamer’s splintered interstates of embroidered inkjet prints, or Kerry James Marshall’s clattering and colossal pocket change, emerging and established voices harmonize through practices that strive to upend figurative expectations and reveal the obscure structures that dictate significance. Distorting the boundaries of the body, architecture, place, and meaning, each artist investigates the generative capacity and possibilities of the undefined and malleable. How are new worlds constituted in the midst of contemporary crises? By leaning into ruptures that open out into an otherwise.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition of works by Rose B. Simpson. Located at 513 West 20th Street, the exhibition features Simpson’s ceramic and mixed-media sculptures, which will be making their New York City debut. Rose B. Simpson’s ethereal figures function as her hopes and prayers for both herself and the world around her. These sculptures represent her never-ending investigation into the human condition and act as messengers of her intentions.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Burning Cross, an exhibition of new work by Odili Donald Odita at the 513 West 20th Street location.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Hank Willis Thomas, Everything We See Hides Another Thing across both Chelsea spaces. Comprising large-scale sculptures, mixed media textile works, and retroreflective prints, this exhibition of new work continues Thomas’ exploration of color theory, gestures of unity and strength, and the many ways we can look at a given historical moment or subject.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present two new series of work by Yoan Capote across both our Chelsea locations. REQUIEM, being shown for the first time in the United States will be on view at 20th Street, while PURIFICATION will debut at 524 West 24th Street. The two series work in dialogue to expand Capote’s iconic seascapes towards a wider, global spectrum of reflection by underscoring the values, symbolism, and cultural importance of the culled materials used to create the works: recycled fishhooks, deconstructed barbed wire, gold leaf, and plaster amongst others. REQUIEM was inspired by a recent trip to Italy, during which Capote made pilgrimages to the artistic masterpieces housed in churches, mausoleums, and museums. This context also allowed him to connect more directly to the migratory currents of the Mediterranean Sea. What surfaced were parallels to his own deeply complicated relationship with the sea informed by his Cuban experience.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Stressed World, on view at The School through December 3rd, 2022. The exhibition takes its name from the title of Ghanaian-born artist El Anatsui’s large-scale sculpture composed of thousands of folded pieces of discarded aluminum and copper wire. Throwing light on the long shadow of colonialism while also forming a blueprint for an alternative future, Anatsui’s 'Stressed World' (2011) sets the tone for the exhibition, which includes 30 artists working from their own corners of an exhausted planet. Featured artists include: El Anatsui, Shimon Attie, Radcliffe Bailey, Yoan Capote, Nick Cave, Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu, Gehard Demetz, Pierre Dorion, Paterson Ewen, Vibha Galhotra, Barkley L. Hendricks, Hayv Kahraman, Anton Kannemeyer, Lyne Lapointe, Deborah Luster, Tyler Mitchell, Meleko Mokgosi, Adi Nes, Jackie Nickerson, Odili Donald Odita, Gordon Parks, Garnett Puett, Malick Sidibé, Claudette Schreuders, Paul Anthony Smith, Michael Snow, Hank Willis Thomas, Carlos Vega, Andy Warhol, Leslie Wayne, and Carrie Mae Weems

Jack Shainman Gallery is thrilled to present Plus, a solo exhibition of new works by Geoffrey Chadsey, at our 513 West 20th Street space. In this new series of often larger than life-size watercolor pencil drawings on mylar, Geoffrey Chadsey’s subjects present themselves to the viewer nude, like an artist’s model, or naked, in a state to be desired. Each body is ruptured with a kind of gender melancholy that is performed through incoherent, mutating selves. Rendered on mylar, Chadsey plays with this surface that allows his liquified marks to move around like paint while emitting the plastic sheen of a photograph. Lines wrap the subjects’ bodies, challenging physical dimensionality and mimicking anatomical etchings. These works are created from looking at vast and varied collections of photographs, and in turn, reproduce the dynamic of a photo shoot: a subject presenting themselves to the lens, either being photographed by someone, or by themselves, to be presented to another.

Jack Shainman Gallery is proud to present In the Paint, an exhibition of rarely presented work by Barkley L. Hendricks at our 513 West 20th Street location, which features Hendricks’s basketball themed paintings, related photography, works on paper, and personal sketchbooks. This early body of work is an exploration and interpretation of abstraction from the perspective of an artist whose practice was deeply interested in social community and representing the idea of Blackness. Created mostly in the late 1960s between his years as a student at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Yale University, the paintings are a formative study of minimalism—an investigation of light, color, line, and geometry based in the shapes of the game and inspired by Hendricks’s own love of basketball and its presence in his community.

Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, Michael Snow, Paul Anthony Smith, Odili Donald Odita, Adi Nes, Kerry James Marshall, Yoan Capote, El Anatsui

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present If a Tree Falls, an exhibition of new work by Nick Cave, bookending the artist’s spring presentations in New York. If Weather or Not (Jack Shainman Gallery, May 17 – June 23, 2018) was the visual manifestation of states of mind, and The Let Go (Park Avenue Armory, June 7 – July 1, 2018) an expression of states of being, If A Tree Falls explores a crucial underlying component of these personal and collective states – the state of the nation.