RECENT RELEASEs
RASHID JOHNSON
Untitled Large Anxious Red , 2021
48” x 36” image & paper
Adam Pendleton
Untitled (Hey Mama Hey), 2021
64” x 49” image & paper
Joel Mesler
Three Kings, 2021
40” x 35” image & paper
News

“This monumentally-scaled work by Rashid Johnson, co-published by Hauser & Wirth Editions and Brand X Editions, highlights the artist's dedication to pushing the boundaries of printmaking.”
“Me, you and the sunset” is on view in the Richards Rogers Gallery at Château La Coste until September 8. “Joel Mesler: Kitchens are good rooms to cry in” is at Lévy Gorvy Dayan in New York through July 26. The artist’s “Pool Party” remains installed at Rockefeller Center until July 21.
For Johnson, the exhibition ‘Nudiustertian’ is an exploration of his own very recent past, with the works representing part of his practice that developed between 2018 and the present.
You can find his works on the back of mass-market cereal packets, in leading museums and on sneakers. Some change hands for millions, and others are made in their millions. More than any other living artist, Brian Donnelly, known as KAWS, carries the Andy Warhol mantle of blending high and low art. Darius Sanai meets him in his New York studio.
Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai is pleased to announce Joel Mesler: Spiritual Journey, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Asia—from February 19 to April 18, 2023. Encompassing around 50 paintings, the presentation will illuminate Mesler’s signature artistic style—characterized by bold colors, stylized patterns, bright figuration, and unique calligraphic scripts.
The large-scale series conveys an optimistic message focusing on the goodness and altruistic aspect of people, with the artist giving light to those whom we can rely on to lift us both emotionally and spiritually.
In a wide-ranging conversation held in October 2022, Smith and Gluibizzi discussed labor and class and their avoidance by the art world, the importance of getting the angle of a fishhook just right, and the impact that can be felt when we open art up to a painterly new broom.