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Solange Knopf Spirit Codex No. 12, 2013 Colored pencil on paper16.5 x 11.5 inches41.9 x 29.2 cmSoK 55
03/28/2025

Solange Knopf
Spirit Codex No. 12, 2013
Colored pencil on paper
16.5 x 11.5 inches
41.9 x 29.2 cm
SoK 55

Solange Knopf Spiritual Ink #2, 2011Ink on paper 7.25 x 4.5 inches18.4 x 11.4 cmSoK 24
03/28/2025

Solange Knopf
Spiritual Ink #2, 2011
Ink on paper
7.25 x 4.5 inches
18.4 x 11.4 cm
SoK 24

Solange Knopf Sanguine Feeling,Series #3, 2011 Ink on paper 9.25 x 7.25 inches23.5 x 18.4 cmSoK 5
03/28/2025

Solange Knopf
Sanguine Feeling,Series #3, 2011
Ink on paper
9.25 x 7.25 inches
23.5 x 18.4 cm
SoK 5

Solange Knopf Sanguine Feeling, Series #2. 2011 Ink on paper 7.25 x 5 inches18.4 x 12.7 cm SoK 4
03/28/2025

Solange Knopf
Sanguine Feeling, Series #2. 2011
Ink on paper
7.25 x 5 inches
18.4 x 12.7 cm
SoK 4

Solange KnopfSpirit Codex No. 3, 2012Watercolor, colored pencil, graphite on paper47.83 x 48.03 inches121.5 x 122 cmSoK ...
03/27/2025

Solange Knopf
Spirit Codex No. 3, 2012
Watercolor, colored pencil, graphite on paper
47.83 x 48.03 inches
121.5 x 122 cm
SoK 32

Leonard DaleyCon Teng Qual Dalok Amanda, 1996Mixed media/canvas33.5 x 36.75 inches85.1 x 93.3 cmLE 21
03/27/2025

Leonard Daley
Con Teng Qual Dalok Amanda, 1996
Mixed media/canvas
33.5 x 36.75 inches
85.1 x 93.3 cm
LE 21

Opening April 10TH!!!!!!THE REAL SURREAL PART I: NEW PAINTINGS BY SHNEIDER LÉON HILAIRE(April 10 - May 17, 2025)Cavin-Mo...
03/26/2025

Opening April 10TH!!!!!!

THE REAL SURREAL PART I:

NEW PAINTINGS BY SHNEIDER LÉON HILAIRE

(April 10 - May 17, 2025)

Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to present the first of two back-to-back exhibitions demonstrating aspects of Contemporary art’s continued connections to ideas promulgated by Surrealist artists worldwide. The first exhibition will focus on recent paintings by a contemporary artist living and working in Haiti, Shneider Léon Hilaire, and the second exhibition will posit certain aspects of Art Brut as the actual practice sought by the Surrealists in their explorations of psychic mediumship, automatic writing and drawing, dreams, psychotic breakdowns, magic and unexpected visual juxtapositionings of imagery.

It is our premise that Surrealism is alive and well in this universe and is often a natural proponent of culture itself. Given events worldwide, the viability of Art as a war cry of spiritual, intellectual and physical freedom is more relevant than ever. These were always the goals of Surrealism.

Just being alive in Haiti puts one in the center of a red-hot flashpoint of survival. Hilaire is alive in Haiti, and he is in deep immersion as an artist in a place that has always been in a philosophical and creative relationship with Breton’s Surrealism. In fact, a speech given in Haiti in the 40s to a group of students and intellectuals almost fomented an uprising.

In her essay on Surrealism in the Caribbean (reprinted recently as the key essay in the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth titled Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1941) Suzanne Césaire said “Our surrealism will then supply them the leaven from their very depths. It will be time finally to transcend the sordid contemporary antinomies: Whites-Blacks, Europeans-African, civilized-savages: the powerful magic of the mahoulis (spirits) will be recovered, drawn from the very wellsprings of life. Colonial idiocies will be purified by the welding arc’s blue flame. The metal of our metal, our cutting edge of steel, our unique communions-all will be recovered.”

Surrealism, tightrope of our hope.

Indeed, in the Vodou world of Hilaire’s paintings, in the deliberate and careful restraint of their nighttime colors and implied animism there is always this hope that ceremony, knowledge and love will heal the heartbreak of a prosecuted culture exhausted yet vital despite earthquakes, storms and the lack of promised help from world powers.

These paintings are visual poems. They mine the history of the American religion; Vodou, to create an Afro-Futurist present, organic and sharp in form and content. We can live with their mysteries because they are not unanswered questions. They are not solipsistic. The answers have been there before and after the Haitians were unwillingly pulled from Dahomey and Congo.

The Haitian contemporary artist owns his sources. He lives, not between two worlds, not in a syncretic world but in an expanded world lit by the dark orchid lights of the occult and the fecund forest wisdoms of Vodou.

Hilaire moves beyond the false artworld tropes of what a Haitian artist is or must be. We are privileged to share his visions. He mediates and translates for us. He visually sings the drums. We see the voices of the Lwa (spirits in the Haitian pantheon). He does what he wants to do in a direct and powerfully beautiful fashion. This dance he does on a Surrealist stage demonstrates the poetic song of Leonard Cohen:

There is a crack, a crack in everything

That’s how the light gets in

For further information please contact [email protected] or call us at 212-226-3768.

From 1986
03/26/2025

From 1986

Noviadi AngkasapuraUntitled, 2015 Colored pencil,graphite, ink on found paper13 x 9.25 inches33 x 23.5 cmNoA 179
03/26/2025

Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2015
Colored pencil,graphite, ink on found paper
13 x 9.25 inches
33 x 23.5 cm
NoA 179

Noviadi AngkasapuraUntitled, 2015 Colored pencil on paper8 x 12.5 inches20.3 x 31.8 cmNoA 173
03/26/2025

Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2015
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 12.5 inches
20.3 x 31.8 cm
NoA 173

Noviadi AngkasapuraUntitled, 2013 Ink on paper 11.5 x 13 inches29.2 x 33 cmNoA 24
03/26/2025

Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2013
Ink on paper
11.5 x 13 inches
29.2 x 33 cm
NoA 24

Noviadi AngkasapuraUntitled, 2023Ballpoint pen, graphite on cardboard17 x 13 inches43.2 x 33 cmNoA 392
03/26/2025

Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2023
Ballpoint pen, graphite on cardboard
17 x 13 inches
43.2 x 33 cm
NoA 392

Noviadi AngkasapuraUntitled, 2019Ballpoint and graphite on envelope9.5 x 15 inches24.1 x 38.1 cmNoA 362
03/26/2025

Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2019
Ballpoint and graphite on envelope
9.5 x 15 inches
24.1 x 38.1 cm
NoA 362

Gregory Van MaanenUntitled, 11/7/2016Acrylic on canvas35 x 27 inches88.9 x 68.6 cmGVM 2570
03/26/2025

Gregory Van Maanen
Untitled, 11/7/2016
Acrylic on canvas
35 x 27 inches
88.9 x 68.6 cm
GVM 2570

Simon SparrowUntitled, c. 1980sMixed media on wood in plexi-glass box21 x 17.25 x 3.5 inches53.3 x 43.8 x 8.9 cmSSp 1
03/26/2025

Simon Sparrow
Untitled, c. 1980s
Mixed media on wood in plexi-glass box
21 x 17.25 x 3.5 inches
53.3 x 43.8 x 8.9 cm
SSp 1

Imam Sucahyo A Guidance in the Silk Road, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 78.5 x 78.5 inches199.4 x 199.4 cmISu 27
03/26/2025

Imam Sucahyo
A Guidance in the Silk Road, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
78.5 x 78.5 inches
199.4 x 199.4 cm
ISu 27

Errol Lloyd AthertonEffigy, Late 1990sCedar9 x 3.5 x 2 inches22.9 x 8.9 x 5.1 cmLAt 14
03/26/2025

Errol Lloyd Atherton
Effigy, Late 1990s
Cedar
9 x 3.5 x 2 inches
22.9 x 8.9 x 5.1 cm
LAt 14

Nicole FrobuschMessage from the Earth, 2024Natural earth pigments on h**p paper16.5 x 11.5 inches41.9 x 29.2 cmNFro 41
03/26/2025

Nicole Frobusch
Message from the Earth, 2024
Natural earth pigments on h**p paper
16.5 x 11.5 inches
41.9 x 29.2 cm
NFro 41

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