Peter Blum Gallery

12/01/2022

11/19/2022

Paul Fägerskiöld's solo exhibition, “January 1, 2100,” opens today! Join us for an artist’s reception tonight from 5 - 7pm.

“January 1, 2100” will be on view through January 21, 2023. For more information or to check out the Online Viewing Room, click the link in our bio!

Image: Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld, “January 1, 2100,’’ Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2022//

11/04/2022

Currently on view at ADAA The Art Show is Erik Lindman’s “Balke (Comorant).”

Erik Lindman lays down and builds up marks and gestures, ultimately articulating value and attention while asserting the materiality and tactile nature of each painterly composition. His topographical surfaces become the final result of what is buried beneath them, and upon closer inspection, layers of paint reveal further color and traces of discarded elements.

Stop by booth C12 at The Park Avenue Armory through November 6 to see Erik Lindman’s paintings in person or visit the OVR through the link in our bio!

Artwork: Erik Lindman, “Balke (Cormorant),” 2022, acrylic, cotton webbing and epoxy resin putty on panel with aluminum artist's frame, 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)//

10/19/2022

We’re excited for our solo presentation of new paintings by Erik Lindman for ADAA The Art Show! Taking place from November 3-6, 2022, we’ll be in booth C12 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

Erik Lindman reinterprets and repurposes cast-aside objects including steel shards, plastic fragments, or canvas webbing for his paintings. He combines a variation of surfaces in a cascade of decisions with a focus on scale and negative space. Laying down and building up marks, gestures, and layers, his topographical surfaces become the result of what is buried beneath them. Lindman’s work serves as a conduit through which individuals are invited to participate in the shared activity of remaking the world, out of the things that exist around and within them.

Artwork: Erik Lindman, “Despina,” 2022, acrylic and collaged canvas webbing and tarlatan on linen, 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm) //

10/15/2022

Currently on view through November 11 is Kamrooz Aram’s solo exhibition, “Elusive Ornament.”

Included in the exhibition are paintings from the artist’s Arabesque series such as the work featured here, “Garden Revelation.” Aram uses this vague term both critically and with purpose, inviting viewers to reconsider the art historical canon that has reduced such a wide variety of forms into a single word that refers to the multitude of cultures identified as Arab—the Iranian-American artist himself is often misidentified as Arab. These considerations are echoed in his process: Aram negotiates the composition of his paintings through additive and subtractive mark-making. Each of these paintings begins with a grid upon which the artist draws with oil crayon, wiping down his marks with solvent and rags and redrawing and repainting it until he achieves a desired composition. Through a conflation of figure and ground, Aram creates compositions that are at once ornamentalized, and at the same time resist superfluous form.

You can check out the Online Viewing Room for “Elusive Ornament” through the link in our bio!

Artwork: “Garden Revelation,” 2022, oil, oil crayon and pencil on linen, 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)//

10/12/2022

We are pleased to announce “Alex Katz: Gathering,” a retrospective of the artist’s career, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 20th!

Emerging as an artist in the mid-20th century, Katz forged a mode of figurative painting that fused the energy of Abstract Expressionist canvases with the American vernaculars of the magazine, billboard, and movie screen. Throughout his practice, he has turned to his surroundings in downtown New York City and coastal Maine as his primary subject matter, documenting an evolving community of poets, artists, critics, dancers, and filmmakers who have animated the cultural avant-garde from the postwar period to the present.
Staged in the city where Katz has lived and worked his entire life, and prepared with the close collaboration of the artist, this retrospective will fill the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. Encompassing paintings, oil sketches, collages, drawings, prints, and freestanding “cutout” works, the exhibition will begin with the artist’s intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway from the late 1940s and will culminate in the rapturous, immersive landscapes that have dominated his output in recent years.

Artwork: Alex Katz, “Gold and Black 2,” 1993, oil on linen, 80 x 166 inches (203.2 x 421.6 cm)//

10/06/2022

Kamrooz Aram’s solo exhibition, “Elusive Ornament,” is currently on view through November 11. Featured in the exhibition is the collaged, five-part work, ”Variations on Glazed Bricks.” Aram’s collages incorporate the pages of art historical publications into painted compositions in a similar manner as the sculptures, inviting viewers to consider the photographed objects as contemporary images rather than relying purely on a nostalgic veneration of objects from the past.

You can check out the Online Viewing Room for “Elusive Ornament” through the link in our bio!

Artwork: Kamrooz Aram, “Variations on Glazed Bricks,” 2021, oil, color pencil and book pages on linen, installation: 24 x 104 inches (60.96 x 264.16 cm), composed of 5 panels, 24 x 16 inches (61 x 40.6 cm), each //

09/30/2022

Today is the last day to view Luisa Rabbia’s solo exhibition “The Inferno, Broken in Nine Pieces” at The Drawing Hall in Bergamo, Italy. The artist, who lives in New York, returned to her native Italy with an exhibition consisting of a cycle of works created specifically for The Drawing Hall.

Images: Installation views of Luisa Rabbia, “The Inferno, Broken in Nine Pieces,” 2022, The Drawing Hall, Bergamo, Italy //

09/28/2022

Su-Mei Tse will be participating in the group exhibition “Face-à-Face,” a collaboration of Mudam Museum Luxembourg with Saarlandmuseum Modern Galerie in Saarbrücken, Germany. Featured in the exhibition will be Su-Mei Tse’s “Many Spoken Words,” a work in Mudam’s permanent collection.

“Face-à-Face” (Face to Face) proposes a new dialogue between two museum collections. It establishes connections between works by major figures of the modern avant-garde in Germany and France and those of contemporary artists from around the world. Questions of metamorphosis, the transformation of matter, optical phenomena and the perception of space are present throughout this exhibition in the East Gallery. The works shown highlight a diversity if formal experimentation, as well as the willingness of artists to challenge social and political structures.

“Face-à-Face” will open October 8, 2022, and will be on view through April 2, 2023 at Mudam in Luxembourg.

Artwork: Su-Mei Tse, “Many Spoken Words,” 2009, painted cast iron with epoxy coating, black ink, steel, pump, plastic, styrofoam with faux-finish, 91 x 138 x 138 inches (231.1 x 350.5 x 350.5 cm) //

09/20/2022

Nicholas Galanin’s “Never Forget” publication has been selected as an acquisition for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition "Past/Present/Future: Expanding Indigenous American, Latinx, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Perspectives in Thomas J. Watson Library." Congratulations Nicholas!

“Past/Present/Future” is the culminating exhibition to Thomas J. Watson Library's grant project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which aimed to assess and expand the library's collection of underrepresented heritage groups, especially Indigenous American, Latinx, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander artists.

Galanin's artist's book is dedicated to a single work, "Never Forget," a 60 feet by 360 feet installation on view from March until August 2021 through the Desert X festival in Palm Springs, California. The book will be on view in the vitrines in the circulation area of the library from September 22, 2022, through January 3, 2023.

Learn more about the publication at the link in bio!

Publication Info: Nicholas Galanin, “Never Forget,” Minor Matters, New York and Seattle, book size: 8.5 x 12 inches, 48 pages (accordion), hardcover with slipcase //

09/06/2022

Rebecca Ward’s newest publication “Before and After” is available for preorder! The publication coincides with her current solo exhibition “Rebecca Ward: distance to venus” at SITE Santa Fe on view through November 5. It also includes installation images and works from her solo exhibition “Rebecca Ward: infinite plane” at Peter Blum Gallery, March 19- April 30, 2022. Brandee Caoba, curator at SITE Santa Fe, interviews Rebecca Ward in the publication as well.

Head to the link in our bio to preorder now!

Publication Info: Rebecca Ward, "Before and After," 2022, Peter Blum Edition, New York, SITE Santa Fe, Book size: 8.25 x 11.25 inches (21 x 28.5 cm), 68 pages, Hardcover//

09/01/2022

We are one week away from the opening of The Armory Show! Even though it hasn’t begun yet, you can preview our presentation at the link in our bio!

Here is Luisa Rabbia’s “Tree of Life,” a new painting that will be featured in booth 213 at the Javits Center in New York from September 8-11.

Artwork: Luisa Rabbia, “Tree of Life,” 2021-2022, oil on linen, 84 x 47 1/2 inches (213.4 x 120.7 cm) //