Selected Press

T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Rose Courteau

14 October 2024

A Painter With an Eye for the Ridiculous

‘I find that paintings are done when they generate the idea for the next painting so they’re inherently connected.’

Ambera Wellmann in the studio with her dog, Chicken, 2023. Photo: Christian DeFonte.

The Art Newspaper

Ben Luke

9 October 2024

A brush with…Sonia Boyce

Sonia’s art is about people but also formed by them—people are her raw materials.

Sonia Boyce, Exquisite Tension (2006). © Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2024. Courtesy of the artist, APALAZZOGALLERY and Hauser & Wirth Gallery

Wall Street Journal

Karen Wilkin

7 October 2024

‘Arshile Gorky. New York City’ Review: An Enigmatic Evolution

'We can watch Gorky become more and more confident about the expressive possibilities of his materials and about showing the evidence of the artist’s hand.'

Arshile Gorky, ‘Untitled (Sunset in Central Park)’ (1931) Photo: The Arshile Gorky Foundation/ARS, N.Y./Hauser & Wirth

The Guardian

Dale Berning Sawa

3 October 2024

‘Everything can just be what it is’: the liberated art of Nairy Baghramian

‘But [Nairy Baghramian] insisted that Metzger’s neat summation of 'a political experience of a space and also an architectural experience' was the only prompt she needed.'

Installation view,'Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet.' South London Gallery, September 2024. © Jo Underhill 2024

South China Morning Post

Fionnuala McHugh

2 October 2024

How US artist Mark Bradford teamed up with Hong Kong students ahead of his new exhibition

‘The entire project could be seen as a nudge towards bigger possibilities. During the opening, the students commented on the mural’s scale, as well as the insight into another landscape and the height – and hugs – of [Mark] Bradford.’

Mark Bradford poses with students in front of a mural in Sham Shui Po created as part of gallery Hauser & Wirth’s Education Lab in Hong Kong.

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris

1 October 2024

Stuffed animals, Superman and communing with spirits: the wacky world of Mike Kelley explored in Tate Modern survey

'His work asks significant and prescient questions about the role of art and the identity of the artist, the experience of living in a hyper-mediated society, and obsessions with various forms of belief system.'

© Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All Rights Reserved/VAGA at ARS, NY.

The Guardian

Adrian Searle

27 September 2024

Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place review – Black art disruptor shakes down the museum

'If museums are looking for a way to expand their horizons, Ligon has found a solution.'

Waiting for the Barbarians, by Glenn Ligon, in Athens in 2021. Photograph: Natalia Tsoukala.

The Robb Report

Julie Belcove

21 September 2024

Meet George Rouy, the 30-Year-Old British Painter With a Knack for Making Things ‘Bleed’

'The oil becomes that finishing layer, the kind of extra, because there’s such a beautiful weight and density to oil that acrylic doesn’t have.'

George Rouy, 2024 © George Rouy. Courtesy the artist, Hannah Barry Gallery and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Kemka Ajoku

Artnet

Eileen Kinsella

12 September 2024

Hauser and Wirth Teams Up with Steve Martin on a Love Letter to Los Angeles

'We are coming on this moment of Pacific Standard Time. Well, L.A. has been writing its history. There is this whole new L.A. story, and that’s also one of the many narratives of our exhibition.'