The Life of Things

MAY 26th - AUGUST 31st, 2020

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to announce our online exclusive exhibition, "The Life of Things" featuring paintings by 12 artists exploring ideas of space and place - the spaces that we inhabit, the things which surround us, and a sense of identity, purpose, and belonging.

Domesticity is a recurring theme coupled with rigorous execution and a deep conceptual foundation. None of the artists simply depict things, or worlds they inhabit, but imagine, extemporize, embellish their subject matter in ways that conform to hopes and dreams.

The exhibition includes Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, Ann Agee, Kathy Butterly, Sarah Cain, Jay Davis, Nicole Eisenman, Jane Freilicher, Carla Klein, Orly Maiberg, linn meyers, Michal Rovner, and Jorge Tacla. All of them are painters, but not all of them use paint on canvas to make art. Butterly and Agee for instance work in clay but employ paint and painting techniques.

Meyers, a Washington, D.C. based artist, is showing in Los Angeles here for the first time. She paints space, literally, but it's also an interior world that envelops and hypnotizes the viewer, while Tacla is a history painter, taking us to real places under threat of destruction. For Davis, Cain, and Klein, and even Eisenman, spaces are inherently social, contested.

Michal Rovner is a painter with light. Her recent, narrative video installations created from customized, computer programs take us into the future, visually and technologically. For Rovner, an Israeli, space is already and always synonymous with identity, deeply layered.

Dipping canvas in buckets of diluted ink, Orly Maiberg creates panoramic compositions that appear chaotic at first, purely abstract landscapes and yet have a basis in studies of biology, environmental politics, and a tension between nature as both a home and threat to humanity -- small insect-like figures populate her pictures, alone, seemingly lost and vulnerable at the edge of vast and foreboding environments which resmeble topographic maps or panoramic scenes viewed from above. But life is born here from death, figuration from abstraction.

Jane Freilicher and Thordis Adalsteinsdottir adhere to documenting intimate personal space. Adalsteinsdottir paints interiors, or more correctly interiors of interiors. She looks inward into her own mind to paint intense, arresting, psychological portraits of herself and others, frequently women. Freilicher paints interiors looking outwards to a landscape beyond her New York apartment or home on the eastern end of Long Island.

The gallery is open by appointment Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am – 5 pm.

For more information please contact Rosie at director@shoshanawayne.com

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir

Klettur sewing plastic bags, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

37 3/8" x 37 3/8" (95 x 95 cm)

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir

In the new kitchen (rabbit, eye, and soap), 2020

Acrylic on canvas

32 1/2” x 32 1/2”

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir

Kelly Bathing Feet, 2007

Acrylic on canvas

48" x 48" (121.92 x 121.92 cm)

Ann Agee

Pink Room, 2020

Vinyl paint on mulberry paper

Overall: 110" x 222" (279.4 x 563.9 cm)

Each panel: 110" x 37" (279.4 x 94 cm)

Watch Ann discuss her work on Instagram

Ann Agee

Green Geometric Sculpture, 2020

Glazed earthenware

26" x 12 1/2" x 7 1/4" (66 x 31.75 x 18.42 cm)

Kathy Butterly

Double, 2015

Clay and glaze

4 11/16” x 5” x 4” (11.90 x 12.7 x 10.16)

Sarah Cain

And the night never ended, 2018

Acrylic, gold and silver leaf, beads, bells, and uv seal on canvas

72" x 60" (182.88 x 152.4 cm)

Jay Davis

Survivorman, 2006-2007

Acrylic on vinyl

84" x 94" (213.36 x 238.76 cm)

Nicole Eisenman

Minotaur Hunt, 1993

Oil on canvas

18" x 24" (45.72 x 60.96 cm)

Jane Freilicher

Window on the West Village, 1999

Oil on linen

24 1/8" x 28" (61.3 x 71.1 cm)

Jane Freilicher

Thicket and Field, 1984

Oil on canvas

74" x 74" (187.96 x 187.96 cm)

Jane Freilicher

Untitled, c. 1970s

Oil on canvas

18 1/4” x 22”

Carla Klein

Untitled, 2003

Oil on canvas

67" x 118 1/8" ( 170 x 300 cm)

Orly Maiberg

The Pier, 2020

Ink, paint, and collage on raw canvas

41 3/8” x 34 5/8" (105 x 88 cm)

Foliage, 2020

Ink, paint, and collage on raw canvas,

67 3/4” × 71 3/8” (172 x 181 cm)

linn meyers

Untitled, 2019

Acrylic ink on panel

78" x 66" (198.2 x 167.64 cm)

linn meyers

Untitled, 2020

Direct gravure etching chine colléd to gampi on Hahnemule

22 1/2" x 17 1/4" (57.15 x 43.82 cm)

Edition of 20

Michal Rovner

Green Valley, 2019

LCD screen and video

57 1/8" x 32 5/8" x 3 3/8" (145.1 x 82.9 x 8.6 cm)

Edition of 5

Michal Rovner

Terra III, 2020

3 LCD screens and video

Each: 43 1/8" x 24 7/8" x 2 1/4" (109.5 x 62.5 x 5.7 cm)

Overall: 43 1/8" x 73 7/8" x 2 1⁄ 4" (109.5 x 187.6 x 5.7 cm)

Edition of 5

Michal Rovner

Untitled (Space Element), 2018

LCD screen and video

57 1/8" x 32 5/8" x 3 3/8" (145.1 x 82.9 x 8.6 cm) Edition of 5

Jorge Tacla

Señal de Abandono 23, 2017

Oil and cold wax on canvas

80" x 80" (203.2 x 203.2 cm)

Jorge Tacla

Señal de Abandono 22, 2017

Oil and cold wax on canvas

80" x 80" (203.2 x 203.3 cm)

Jorge Tacla

Señal de Abandono 34, 2018

Oil and cold wax on canvas

80" x 320" (203.2 x 812 cm)

Pink Room, 2020

Installation shot