Highlights include:
• New canvases by Nicole Eisenman, whose first major museum survey exhibition ‘Nicole Eisenman: What Happened,’ organized by Museum Brandhorst and Whitechapel Gallery London, is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
• The new sculptures: ‘Dunce’ (2024), the first in a new series of silicone sculptures by Paul McCarthy, and Thomas J Price’s ‘A Place Beyond’ (2024), a special fundraising edition that takes as its starting point the artist’s 9ft figurative sculpture of the same title, first unveiled at Hauser & Wirth Downtown LA. All sales from this special edition will support a collaborative commission with V&A East, two free cultural destinations–V&A East Storehouse and Museum–opening in east London in 2025.
‘Selection from Survival: People look like…’ (2015) by Jenny Holzer, whose landmark 1989 installation at the Guggenheim Museum will be reimagined there this May in the exhibition ‘Light Line.’
• Important photographic work by Zoe Leonard, whose forthcoming exhibition, ‘Al río / To the River,’ will open for the first time in the Americas at the Chinati Foundation during their 37th annual Chinati Weekend benefit, October 11-13, 2024.
Hauser & Wirth’s booth at Frieze NY will be complemented by an array of exhibitions opening May 2 in Chelsea at 542 West 22nd Street and 443 West 18th Street:
Eva Hesse. Five Sculptures
Hauser & Wirth will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the estate’s representation by the gallery by spotlighting Hesse’s remarkable achievements. This exhibition, organized by Barry Rosen, longtime adviser to the Hesse estate, in collaboration with art historian and critic Briony Fer, reunites five of the artist‘s most celebrated large-scale works, all on loan from major American museums and all made in the most intense period at the end of her life from 1967 to 1969.
Mary Heilmann. Daydream Nation
Curated by artist Gary Simmons, Heilmann’s friend and former student and colleague at New York’s School of Visual Arts, the exhibition celebrates her talent for distilling complex images and ideas into deceptively simple geometric forms and abstract gestural marks. Through rarely and never-before-seen works on paper from the 1970s to early 2000s, this presentation reveals how drawing functions as a form of daydreaming—of conjuring the sights, sounds and events of her past travels or her imagined future—in Heilmann’s creative process.
Jennifer Rochlin. Paintings on Clay
Los Angeles-based painter Jennifer Rochlin embarked upon a shift toward three-dimensionality sixteen years ago when an unexpected teaching opportunity brought her into close contact with clay for the first time. Hauser & Wirth will present Rochlin’s most recent series of large-scale hand-built terra cotta vessels on which she offers up an autobiographical journey—intimate scenes of her life and loves, of nature observed and of her own responses to the greats of art history.
Rita Ackermann. SPLITS
On 2 May, Hauser & Wirth will present Rita Ackermann’s latest series of paintings and prints in simultaneous exhibitions spanning the gallery’s two West Chelsea locations. At 542 West 22nd Street, the artist will debut a suite of new canvases expanding upon the techniques, themes and imagery she has explored over the course of her career since the early 1990s, while at 443 West 18th Street she will unveil a series of complex large-scale silkscreens. Heralding a significant leap in her artistic practice, these prints represent a dramatic convergence of the technical processes of printmaking with Ackermann’s sustained exploration of form, movement and erasure.
