In October, following her recent solo exhibition in Paris, we are thrilled to present Astrid Dick's first one-person exhibition in New York. From large to small scale painting, video, zines and installation, Dick engages with the possibilities of contemporary painting through her bold and complex mix of “high” and “low” art, her mastery of oil paint, her exuberant use of color and non-traditional materials and supports such as discarded foam, sequins, and glitter. “What interests me about Dick’s paintings is their combination of insouciance and seriousness, and how the balance between the two can shift, adding to the nuances of contradictory feelings that are evoked.” (John Yau, 2022)

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Astrid Dick has been working and living in Paris for the last two decades. Dick has been a recipient of the Milton and Sally Michel Avery Visual Arts Fellowship at Yaddo and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, among others, and shown her work through solo and group shows in Europe, the US and Argentina, such as the Grand Palais in Paris and the Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland. Most recently, she has shown at Moments Artistiques in Paris, at MDavid & Co. Gallery and at Below Grand Gallery in New York, at Johnson Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, and her work was reviewed by John Yau in Hyperallergic and by David Rhodes in The Brooklyn Rail, among others. She holds a PhD in Economics from MIT.

In November, we are proud to present a one-person exhibition of Chuck Webster, his first one with the gallery following over a dozen solo exhibitions in New York. This show will consist of an installation of hundreds of works on paper done over the last three decades. “Guided by his curiosity, Webster is voracious — even what some might call indiscriminate — with his influences. What anchors his work is drawing; he is not afraid to reveal himself through this age-old practice, using whatever means are at his disposal,” writes John Yau in 2020, noting that “he shares something with writers who know that rewriting is essential to the process.”

Chuck Webster works in painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking to make pieces that, while largely abstract, often incorporate vaguely recognizable images of plants, architecture, and humans. In 2012, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith referred to his canvases as “little big paintings,” noting that “they have a strange, irrepressible scale, a largeness that exceeds their size and creates a distinctive, slightly comedic sense of intimacy.” Born in Binghamton, New York, today Webster lives and works in Brooklyn. His work is held in many major collections, among them the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Webster has been a recipient of many honors, including the Milton and Sally Michel Avery Visual Arts Fellowship at Yaddo and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Webster was also the 2018 National Academy Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.