Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan.

Jennifer J. Lee’s “Ice Jeans” 2024 hangs on a wall in the gallery with three other “jeans” paintings. Lee pulls her imag...
02/01/2025

Jennifer J. Lee’s “Ice Jeans” 2024 hangs on a wall in the gallery with three other “jeans” paintings.

Lee pulls her imagery from the endless stream of photos on internet sites like Etsy, eBay and Yelp, playing with the notion of curated “picks” and algorithmic selection.

Lee’s show “The Falls” is on view through February 22.

Happy Year of the Snake!Here’s Alex Dodge’s 2022 painting “Join or Die”, oil and acrylic on polyester, 36 x 48 inches. D...
01/29/2025

Happy Year of the Snake!

Here’s Alex Dodge’s 2022 painting “Join or Die”, oil and acrylic on polyester, 36 x 48 inches.

Dodge’s new show “Dark Pattern” is in view in the front gallery through February 22 (extended).

Jennifer J. Lee’s “Stripes” 2024 is on view in “The Falls” Lee’s solo show at the gallery on view now!  The show, along ...
01/23/2025

Jennifer J. Lee’s “Stripes” 2024 is on view in “The Falls” Lee’s solo show at the gallery on view now!

The show, along with Alex Dodge’s show in the front gallery is extended through February 22.

Alex Dodge’s painting, “Dark Pattern”, 2024 is on view in his solo show at the gallery. “Alas, even in this distant isla...
01/21/2025

Alex Dodge’s painting, “Dark Pattern”, 2024 is on view in his solo show at the gallery.

“Alas, even in this distant island refuge of the soul, the dark pattern hath found me.”

Alex Dodge’s solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery includes five new paintings made in the artist’s Tokyo studio. The show’s title references UX designer Harry Brignull’s term “Dark Patterns,” used to describe user interface designs that are intentionally deceptive, misleading, or manipulative. These works obliquely look to the ways that modern society and global capitalism use digital systems to both create connectivity and produce influence.

The headlining work, titled Dark Pattern, features a tower of draped American flags alternating in positive and inverted colors. The well-known optical phenomenon of the afterimage creates an inverse version of the artwork with the same colors—an admission of the deeply polarized political extremes at play in America.

Jennifer J. Lee, “Pizza” 2024oil on jute, 12 x 20 inches. Lee’s new solo show “The Falls” is on view through February 15...
01/18/2025

Jennifer J. Lee, “Pizza” 2024
oil on jute, 12 x 20 inches.

Lee’s new solo show “The Falls” is on view through February 15.

Alex Dodge’s incredible painting “Dream Eater” is part of his new solo show in the front gallery, through February 15. T...
01/15/2025

Alex Dodge’s incredible painting “Dream Eater” is part of his new solo show in the front gallery, through February 15.

The repetitive patterns in these new paintings define the form of draped textiles, a gesture that has been persistent in Dodge’s work throughout the past two decades. While these mysterious covered shapes act as a formal device, Dodge maintains that they are also a metaphor for the seemingly neutral and agnostic structure of the digital systems that are overlaid upon our physical world. The artist’s’ ex*****on of painting with stencils in thick oils with exacting precision but visceral effect is a partial act of defiance against or reconciliation with a world marginalized by devices; each disposable, replaceable, and clad in indistinguishably flat polished glass, smudged with the grease of a longing humanity. Dodge doubts the neutrality of technology writ large, and believes that the patterns alone contain something from the start that affects us, tips the hand, or nudges us. Dodge shows us, in carefully and meticulously crafting his paintings, that how we do things is as important as what we do.

Pictured: Alex Dodge, Dream Eater, 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 44 x 64 inches.

Our January shows are now open!Jennifer J. Lee’s fourth solo show at Klaus is in the back gallery through February 15. T...
01/14/2025

Our January shows are now open!

Jennifer J. Lee’s fourth solo show at Klaus is in the back gallery through February 15.

The show features eleven new photorealistic paintings on jute, continuing Lee’s exploration of a contemporary consciousness saturated with images. The paintings create a through-line from historic practices of creating pictures with oil paint to taking photographs and snapshots, through our current era with its endless proliferation of digital images.

Born in 1977 to first-generation Korean immigrants in Lewiston, NY, Lee grew up making regular family visits to nearby Niagara Falls. These childhood encounters made an indelible impression, as something of the vast magnitude and symbolism of the falls can paradoxically be easily contained and reproduced as postcards and tourist photos. This tension serves as a foundational theme in Lee’s new paintings. The works in this exhibition create a personal lexicon of symbolic objects that emerge from the act of looking and the construction of memory, transforming the banality of clichés into something profound. Lee describes the process of transferring pixels to brushstrokes and screens to stretched fabric as a form of waking meditation and sustained observation. She sees kinship in Andy Warhol’s single-perspective films, such as Sleep, Eat, and Empire, adapting her artistic predecessor’s contemplative focus to a digital age inundated with scrolling images and screens.

Pictured: Jennifer J. Lee
Security Mirror, 2024
oil on jute
13 × 13 inches (33.02 × 33.02 cm)

Opening this Friday, January 10:Alex DodgeDark PatternAlas, even in this distant island refuge of the soul, the dark pat...
01/06/2025

Opening this Friday, January 10:
Alex Dodge
Dark Pattern

Alas, even in this distant island refuge of the soul, the dark pattern hath found me.


Alex Dodge’s solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery includes five new paintings made in the artist’s Tokyo studio. The show’s title references UX designer Harry Brignull’s term “Dark Patterns,” used to describe user interface designs that are intentionally deceptive, misleading, or manipulative. These works obliquely look to the ways that modern society and global capitalism use digital systems to both create connectivity and produce influence.

The repetitive patterns in these new paintings define the form of draped textiles, a gesture that has been persistent in Dodge’s work throughout the past two decades. While these mysterious covered shapes act as a formal device, Dodge maintains that they are also a metaphor for the seemingly neutral and agnostic structure of the digital systems that are overlaid upon our physical world. The artist’s’ ex*****on of painting with stencils in thick oils with exacting precision but visceral effect is a partial act of defiance against or reconciliation with a world marginalized by devices; each disposable, replaceable, and clad in indistinguishably flat polished glass, smudged with the grease of a longing humanity. Dodge doubts the neutrality of technology writ large, and believes that the patterns alone contain something from the start that affects us, tips the hand, or nudges us. Dodge shows us, in carefully and meticulously crafting his paintings, that how we do things is as important as what we do.

New vocabulary appears in these works. Increasingly thick relief elements make up borders and frames, slumping over the stretcher bars. Part collage, part oozing deposits of dripping paint, these elements take the shape of fried eggs, patches, or band-aids. Dodge refers to them as “kludges.” They are physical and graphical patches that haphazardly hold the structure and composition of the images together.

Pictured: Alex Dodge, Value added Harm Reduction, 2024, oil on canvas, 44 × 63.78 inches (111.76 × 162.00 cm)

Opening this Friday, January 10: Jennifer J. LeeThe FallsKlaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is pleased to present The Falls,...
01/06/2025

Opening this Friday, January 10:
Jennifer J. Lee
The Falls

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is pleased to present The Falls, Jennifer J. Lee’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will feature eleven new photorealistic paintings on jute, continuing Lee’s exploration of a contemporary consciousness saturated with images. The paintings create a through-line from historic practices of creating pictures with oil paint to taking photographs and snapshots, through our current era with its endless proliferation of digital images.

Born in 1977 to first-generation Korean immigrants in Lewiston, NY, Lee grew up making regular family visits to nearby Niagara Falls. These childhood encounters made an indelible impression, as something of the vast magnitude and symbolism of the falls can paradoxically be easily contained and reproduced as postcards and tourist photos. This tension serves as a foundational theme in Lee’s new paintings. The works in this exhibition create a personal lexicon of symbolic objects that emerge from the act of looking and the construction of memory, transforming the banality of clichés into something profound. Lee describes the process of transferring pixels to brushstrokes and screens to stretched fabric as a form of waking meditation and sustained observation. She sees kinship in Andy Warhol’s single-perspective films, such as Sleep, Eat, and Empire, adapting her artistic predecessor’s contemplative focus to a digital age inundated with scrolling images and screens.

Pictured: Jennifer J. Lee, Niagara, 2024,
oil on jute, 9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)

Opening January 10, 2025:Jennifer J. LeeThe FallsJanuary 10 - February 15, 2025Opening Reception : January 10, 2025 6-8 ...
12/12/2024

Opening January 10, 2025:

Jennifer J. Lee
The Falls

January 10 - February 15, 2025
Opening Reception : January 10, 2025 6-8 pm

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is pleased to present The Falls, Jennifer J. Lee’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will feature eleven new photorealistic paintings on jute, continuing Lee’s exploration of a contemporary consciousness saturated with images. The paintings create a through-line from historic practices of creating pictures with oil paint to taking photographs and snapshots, through our current era with its endless proliferation of digital images

Pictured: Jennifer J. Lee, “Lee jeans,” 2024, oil on jute, 15 x 13 (detail), Jennifer J. Lee in her studio, fall 2024

Pamela Jorden’s two-part painting “Bow” 2024 is part of the solo show “Gemels” on view in the front gallery.The show has...
12/10/2024

Pamela Jorden’s two-part painting “Bow” 2024 is part of the solo show “Gemels” on view in the front gallery.

The show has been extended through December 21. Don’t miss it!

The Klaus Holiday Shop is now live online!Visit our 2024 holiday shop!10% off selected works on paper, prints, and books...
12/06/2024

The Klaus Holiday Shop is now live online!

Visit our 2024 holiday shop!
10% off selected works on paper, prints, and books through December.

Featuring works by:
Graham Anderson, Glen Baldridge, Benjamin Butler,
Donna Chung, Tamara Gonzales, Geoffrey Hendricks, Liz Luisada,
Pamela Jorden, Erika Ranee, and Kemar Keanu Wynter

Books:
Mark Armijo McKnight, Tamara Gonzales, and Barry Stone

Address

87 Franklin Street
New York, NY
10013

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm

Telephone

+12127777756

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Museum

Send a message to Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery:

Videos

Share

Category