Exhibitions

Ian Davenport: Sequence

November 19, 2020 – January 9, 2021 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by Ian Davenport (b. 1966), on view from November 20, 2020–January 9, 2021, at 509 West 27th Street. Sequence brings together large-scale paintings spanning two series, several of which have been made by the artist in his studio in London, UK, during the months of lockdown. View More

Henri Matisse: Matisse in Black and White

Curated by Paul B. Franklin November 12 – December 19, 2020 297 Tenth Avenue, New York A carefully orchestrated and highly focused survey, Matisse in Black and White explores Henri Matisse’s ongoing relationship with black and white across a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, various types of prints (drypoints, monotypes, lithographs, linocuts), and illustrated books. Comprising some twenty-five rigorously selected artworks, the exhibition aims to facilitate what one might term “slow looking,” a fundamental principle that informed and nourished Matisse throughout his long career as an artist. View More

Bosco Sodi: Vers l'Espagne

October 8 – November 12, 2020 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Bosco Sodi (b.1970, Mexico) on view from October 8–November 12, 2020 at 509 West 27th Street. Vers l’Espagne is Sodi’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Its title translates as “To Spain” in homage to the lineage of artists who influenced his early development as a painter. Drawing upon the evolution of art history from prehistoric cave painting through to modern Spanish artists Eduardo Chillida, Manolo Millares, Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, and Informalismo Catalan, Vers l’Espagne is a love letter to gesture, nature, and the artistic instinct. View More

JB Blunk

October 8 – November 7, 2020 297 Tenth Avenue, New York Taking forms from antiquity and mysticism and translating them instinctively through raw, salvaged materials, Blunk produced a body of work that represents an innate expression of, and conversation with, nature. The exhibition is staged in collaboration with the JB Blunk Collection and includes nearly fifty works in ceramic, wood, and stone by the artist. View More

Copley's Circle

Frieze Masters Viewing Room October 7 – December 15, 2020 Celebrating the formidable influence of artist, dealer, and patron, William N. Copley (1919–1996), Copley's Circle brings together works by artists who were collaborators, confidants, included in exhibitions organized by Copley, collected by Copley, or championed by him through critical texts and grants. These include Richard Artschwager, Judith Bernstein, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Richard Hamilton, Ray Johnson, Les Lalanne, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Jim Nutt, Ed Ruscha, Peter Saul, Dorothea Tanning, Andy Warhol, and H.C. Westermann. View More

Les Lalanne

September 10 – October 3, 2020 297 Tenth Avenue, New York View More

AND/ALSO: Photography (Mis)represented

July 9 – August 21, 2020 In the last ten years, the boundaries between photography and sculpture, architecture, painting, drawing, media and computation have become increasingly porous. Central to the efficacy of photography today is its relationship to language. Like language, photography is a communicative medium that belongs to every discipline, allowing it to shift from commercial to critical and across media. View More

Mark Ryden: Anima Animals

July 3 – August 29, 2020 Kasmin and Perrotin are delighted to announce a jointly organized exhibition of new works by American painter Mark Ryden (b. 1963, United States). Featuring approximately forty works from the artist’s latest series, Anima Animals, the exhibition will be on view at Perrotin’s Shanghai gallery from July 3, 2020. This also marks the artist’s first solo show in China.
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vanessa german

Art Basel OVR: Portals June 13 – August 13, 2020 This presentation of work by german for Art Basel OVR: Portals coincided with an announcement that the artist has joined the programme at Kasmin. Online from June 16-19, the works were also exhibited at the gallery’s High Line Nine space (509 West 27th Street) by appointment from June 15 to August 13. This inaugural edition of Art Basel’s Portals platform focuses on artistic practices that interrogate the parameters that have shaped our contemporary condition, both through current and historical lenses. View More

Ali Banisadr: Red

Online May 20 – December 1, 2020 Ali Banisadr’s latest painting, Red, embodies the existential force of the natural world and the artistic urge to reconcile chaos through the act of creation. Banisadr began the large-scale painting in late 2019 before stepping away from the work in January 2020. Despite its appearance of completion, Banisadr “had a sense that I needed to do more to it.” After the global pandemic struck and countries across the world went into lockdown, he says, “the work made sense to me in a new way.” Banisadr then revisited the painting with renewed dedication, finishing at the end of March 2020.

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Protean

Online May 18 – June 8, 2020 Protean brings together a selection of post-war and contemporary works that explore the primordial development of both language and physical being. The presentation’s title takes its name from the shape-shifting Greek sea god, Proteus, who came to be regarded as a symbol of the original matter from which the world was created. Alluding to the dawning of life and guided by metaphysical reference, the presentation invites contemplation on the ways in which artists continue to grapple with ontological inquiry. Protean features work by 15 artists and will be accessible via the gallery’s Viewing Room from May 18–June 8, 2020. View More

William N. Copley: The New York Years

March 11 – September 26, 2020 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is pleased to present William N. Copley The New York Years, a comprehensive look at the evolution of the artist’s painting during three pivotal decades in New York City. The exhibition traces this central period through key paintings from multiple series and a corresponding presentation of photographic, publishing, and research materials drawn from the archives of the William N. Copley Estate. This is Kasmin’s sixth solo exhibition of the artist’s work since the gallery began representing the Estate in 2010. View More

Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric

March 5 – April 14, 2020 297 Tenth Avenue, New York Kasmin is pleased to present Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric, curated by Sonny Ruscha Granade and Harmony Murphy. Valley of Gold explores the aesthetic legacy of the European surrealists and others who worked with similar sensibilities on the art of Southern California. Examining the influence of this charged period, the exhibition traces how its effects percolated through later movements such as California abstraction, conceptual art, and Light and Space. View More

Barry Flanagan

February 28, 2020 – April 30, 2021 Kasmin Sculpture Garden View More

Max Ernst: Collages

January 23 – February 29, 2020 297 Tenth Avenue, New York Kasmin is delighted to announce an exhibition of paper collages by German surrealist Max Ernst (1891–1976). Staged in collaboration with the Destina Foundation, Collages will be on view from January 23, 2020, at the gallery’s 297 Tenth Avenue location. The exhibition features approximately forty collages on paper, ranging in both scale and subject matter, and spanning 1920 to 1975. Many of the works, with a focus on the 1960s and 70s, have never before been exhibited. View More

Alma Allen

January 23 – March 4, 2020 509 West 27th Street, New York View More

Keith Sonnier: Louisiana Suite

November 21, 2019 – January 11, 2020 509 West 27th Street, New York Kasmin is delighted to announce an exhibition of seminal work by Keith Sonnier at the gallery’s flagship space in Chelsea, New York, on view between November 21, 2019, and January 11, 2020. Large-scale works from the ongoing series Ba-O-Ba, which the artist began in 1969, utilize large panes of glass and Sonnier’s signature neon tubing in an abstract composition that forms a confluence between the sculpture and the gallery wall and floor. The neon’s linear quality allows the artist to “draw in space” with light and color, transcending the traditional limits of sculpture in an idiosyncratic visual style now inextricably associated with Sonnier. Based on the Greek mathematical theory of the Golden Ratio, the works are quintessential examples of Sonnier’s ability to masterfully synthesize architecture and light, speaking to a formal inventiveness that has defined nearly six decades of work. View More