Nancy Hoffman Gallery

Titled Rivers and Mountains, the exhibition will include works inspired by his travels to California and the Sierra Nevada mountains, particularly the headwater areas of the Kern and Merced rivers. The works echo the rivers’ geological shapes in abstracted form, in a visual language the artist created. Explains Deese, “The painted forms in the exhibition precisely transfer the shapes of Sierra Nevada cirques and their adjacent headwaters into scaled-down versions of the landscape— essentially creating a bird's-eye view of the mountain and river shapes.

On January 30 th an exhibition of Nathalia Edenmont titled “Out of Body” opens at Nancy Hoffman Gallery. Included will be 15 photographs of eggs, and 7 sculptures, some of the same subject, as well as a few lilies in marble, created in Carrara. This is the first view of Edenmont’s major new body of work of the past several years and notably, her first foray into sculpture. Edenmont is known for her large photographic portraits of women wearing dresses she composes of flowers or fruits and vegetables as well as for her collages of butterfly wings magnified into monumental photographic compositions. For this body of work, she was ready to take a leap into unknown territory, inspired by her personal connection to the beguiling goose egg.

NHG will show a new series of works by Linda Mieko Allen entitled Atmospheria: Shape of Air, works on paper of acrylic, ink transfer and graphite, each measuring 8 x 6 inches. The series continues the artist’s explorations of the atmosphere and the air around us as it changes and shifts. It follows the thread of her investigation into atmospheric phenomena, spatial form, and manifestations of light, what she calls the “architecture of atmosphere.” The work alludes to the mysteries of the spaces in between. Two of her prior series were called Atmospherics and Thin Air, further underlining her commitment to the subject.

From October 24 to December 7, 2024, Nancy Hoffman Gallery will present the first New York solo exhibition of work by artist Jimi Kabela, featuring richly painted abstract oil paintings from 2023 and 2024. Ranging in scale from tiny, at a scale of 5 x 7 inches, or large, at a scale of 5 x 8 feet, the paintings exude life force and energy in their lush, juicy use of oil, which the artist combines with bits of fabric from the Congo. The paintings integrate both sides of the artist’s life and heritage—born in the Congo and raised in the US—and offer a vista into both worlds.

From September 5 - October 19, 2024, Nancy Hoffman Gallery will host its first solo exhibition of work by artist Tiffany Shlain, titled You Are Here. The exhibition will include a selection of Shlain’s tree-ring sculptures, supergraphics, light boxes, and photographs, among other works at the intersection of feminism, philosophy, technology, neuroscience, and nature. Says Shlain, “In You Are Here, I look at what happens when we step back to view ourselves within the expansiveness of nature and time through the lens of feminism, neuroscience, ecology, and philosophy. I consider how this scale realignment can change our perspective, offer context, reveal absurdities, and evoke humility, insights, and awe.”

On March 21 an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Lucy Mackenzie opens at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, the artist’s first show in eight years, including oil paintings of intimate scale and drawings. The exhibition continues through May 25. Her 2015 show, Quiet, set the stage for the new works, which follow in its footsteps. With continuing commitment, Lucy Mackenzie composes images that convey serenity and poetic observation. In this exhibition of over 40 works the viewer stops to reflect not simply on the artist’s choice of subject or object, but also on the appreciation for items we rarely take time to examine, enjoy or embrace. The paintings measure from 3x3 inches up to 4x7 inches. The artist works for several months on each piece, creating around four paintings a year, objects of contemplation and devotion, each a timeless world, each a touchstone to a larger story of life.

Nancy Hoffman Gallery will present an exhibition of sculptural works by artist Nancy Koenigsberg and paintings by artist Jody Guralnick from February 1 through March 16, 2024. This is Nancy Koenigsberg's first exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will include approximately 25 of her works, made between 1998 and 2023, focusing on wire sculpture. Her wall pieces and installation works are woven, knotted, crocheted, or otherwise manipulated from various weights and colors of copper, steel, and aluminum wire. Woven or knotted grids are shaped and layered. Materials are shiny and dull, fragile, and industrial strength. The various combinations and contrasts challenge and engage the viewer both visually and conceptually. The exhibition of work by Jody Guralnick will include approximately 15 works, made between 2022 and the present. Works in the exhibition range from 12 x12 inches up to 60 x 144 inches. The paintings depict the winding patterns that lichen forms on rocks, as well as the branching hyphal patterns of fungal growth. The lichen, painted in acrylic in rich and alluring impasto, stands in bas-relief against an oil background evocative of nature’s palette.