Past
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As primeiras coisas
Paula Siebra Oct 10 – Nov 9, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Mendes Wood DM presents As primeiras coisas [The earliest things], a painting exhibition by Paula Siebra. Siebra carves out primordial imagery from ubiquitous objects, signs, and emotions that invite the observer to immerse themselves in memorial contexts and lyrical reverberations. From an initial laconicism —... View Exhibition -
grains of water, drops of earth
Josi Sep 6 – Oct 3, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Josi’s process unfolds in the movement of gestures, with handmade creations that make their presence felt as extensions of hands. Grains of earth come together and disperse, sticking to wherever they land. These grains pass through sieves and mortars. They decant, patiently passing through time.... View Exhibition -
What happens at the seaside at dawn?
Laís Amaral Sep 6 – Oct 3, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York What happens at the seaside at dawn? Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition by artist Laís Amaral. Thinking through the elements of the natural world most mysterious to our eyes in contemporary urban environments triggers a feeling Laís... View Exhibition -
Matutar
Marcos Siqueira Jul 31 – Aug 29, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 31 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Matutar: to ponder, to reflect, to consider, to express care The inspiration for this text dates back to a year ago when I had the opportunity to spend a few days with Marcos Siqueira in Serra do Cipó, a... View Exhibition -
Reverie
Jun 21 – Jul 20, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 21 Jun - 20 Jul 2024 Reverie, as in a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts, offers an evocative exploration of abstraction spanning from the 1950s to the present day, tracing the transformative journey of influential artists who have redefined the boundaries of... View Exhibition -
Flooded Playground
Maaike Schoorel Apr 30 – Jun 8, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 30 Apr - 8 Jun 2024 Mendes Wood DM is delighted to announce the debut solo exhibition of Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel in New York. Titled Flooded Playground, the exhibition features a collection of new oil paintings. Painterly, bold, and symphonic yet delicate and wistful,... View Exhibition -
Mineral Rising
Luana Vitra Apr 30 – Jun 8, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 30 Apr - 8 Jun 2024 Mendes Woods DM presents Mineral Rising, the first solo exhibition by artist Luana Vitra in New York. Born in Contagem, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Vitra has become one of the most prominent artists of her generation.... View Exhibition -
Bestiary & Idols
José Bedia Mar 15 – Apr 13, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 15 Mar - 13 Apr, 2024 Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Bestiary & Idols, a solo exhibition of recent works by the Cuban-born artist José Bedia. The exhibition centers on two themes: fauna and mythology. Mythological animals are hallmarks of the artist’s spiritual... View Exhibition -
Against the Grain
Veronika Hapchenko Mar 15 – Apr 13, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 15 Mar - 13 Apr Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first exhibition of Poland-based Ukrainian artist Veronika Hapchenko in the United States. Hapchenko’s airbrushed canvases engage with themes of collective consciousness, as well as instances and manifestations of the occult. The works... View Exhibition -
Na Boca do Sol
Paulo Nimer Pjota Jan 27 – Mar 2, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 27 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 Mendes Wood DM presents Na Boca do Sol, Paulo Nimer Pjota’s first solo show in New York. The exhibition’s title refers to an eponymous 1972 Arthur Verocai song, fragments from which have frequently been used as samples both internationally... View Exhibition -
Gardens of Human Nature
Mimi Lauter Nov 10 – Dec 21, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 10 - Dec 21, 2023 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Gardens of Human Nature by Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter. Comprising sixteen soft pastel and oil pastel framed works on paper of varying scale, this is Lauter's third solo exhibition with the... View Exhibition -
La Pensée Ferale
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Sep 15 – Oct 27, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 15 - Oct 27, 2023 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present La Pensée Férale, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s inaugural exhibition in New York City. Mangrané’s work traces the boundary where nature meets artifice, encompassing a range of media including installations, films, sound-based works, photographs,... View Exhibition -
Critical Mass
Patricia Ayres Jun 23 – Aug 5, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 23 - Aug 5, 2023 In Critical Mass, Patricia Ayres articulates Sigmund Freud’s notion of the Unheimlich.(1) Incongruity is echoed through nine pustulating sculptures, whose faceless forms distinguish themselves by their sutured topography, an amalgamation of stained United States military elastic, parachute hardware, and... View Exhibition -
Everything All At Once
Kent O'Connor Jun 23 – Aug 5, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 23 - Aug 5, 2023 'When I paint, I sit with the objects and experience without touching, feeling but not feeling.' Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Everything All At Once by the Los Angeles-based painter Kent O’Connor (b. 1987 in Virginia, USA).... View Exhibition -
Earthworks
Solange Pessoa May 12 – Jun 17, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 12 - Jun 17, 2023 Earthworks features a selection of earth and fresco paintings, ceramic sculptures, and one video relating to Solange Pessoa's enduring relationship to land and spirited use of organic materials. Multifarious and experimental in its approach to material, Pessoa's oeuvre is... View Exhibition -
MILK OF SLUMS - RUA DOS CACIQUES
Adriano Costa Mar 23 – Apr 29, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Mar 23 - Apr 29, 2023 Written by Colin Ledoux, with words from Adriano Costa in italics. I am Arnaut who gathers up the wind, And chases the hare with the ox, And swims against the torrent. —Arnaut Daniel “...crista do desejo, o destino deslinda-se... View Exhibition -
Demonios Familiares
Guglielmo Castelli Mar 20 – Apr 29, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 20 - Apr 29, 2023 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Demonios Familiares by Guglielmo Castelli (b.1987, Turin, Italy). Building on his previous exhibition in the gallery’s Brussels space in 2021, and an acclaimed solo at Paris+ par Art Basel 2022, this exhibition... View Exhibition -
Six Artists
Group Exhibition Feb 3 – Mar 5, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Feb 3 - Mar 5, 2023 Transgressing the Frontiers of Refusal Written by Lorraine Mendes Those who set out to consider and historicize the peripheries of the world—the dispossessed, the subaltern, the enslaved—must address the power of narratives and archives, whose limitations define what can... View Exhibition -
properties without object
Iulia Nistor Feb 3 – Mar 5, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Feb 3 - Mar 5, 2023 Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present properties without object, Iulia Nistor’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in New York. The exhibition consists of new works from Nistor’s Evidence Paintings series, all 50 x 40... View Exhibition -
Outras águas / Other waters
Antonio Obá Nov 16, 2022 – Jan 21, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 16 - Jan 21, 2023 You go, you stay, you never come back! —João Guimarães Rosa, “The Third Bank of the River” (1962) Mendes Wood DM New York is pleased to announce Outras águas / Other waters, Antonio Obá’s second solo exhibition in New... View Exhibition -
Maria Auxiliadora
Maria Auxiliadora Oct 14 – Nov 11, 2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Oct 14 - Nov 11, 2022 Mendes Wood DM New York presents an exhibition with works by the painter Maria Auxiliadora. Born in 1935 in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Auxiliadora lived and worked in São Paulo until her death in 1974. Her mixed media paintings depict... View Exhibition -
Remember when we talked about meeting again
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro Oct 14 – Nov 11, 2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Oct 14 - Nov 11, 2022 Mendes Wood DM presents Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro’s solo exhibition Remember when we talked about meeting again—a title which refers to both the start of a conversation and a reminiscence of an essential prophecy. The exhibition gathers photographs, a video... View Exhibition -
Dusk of the Gods
Vojtěch Kovařík Sep 9 – Oct 8, 2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 9 - Oct 8, 2022 Mendes Wood DM New York is proud to present Dusk of the Gods, Czech artist Vojtěch Kovařík’s first solo exhibition in New York, following his previous shows with the gallery in São Paulo, Brazil, and Villa Era, Italy. Kovařík’s... View Exhibition -
Mantiqueira
Patricia Leite Jul 14 – Aug 12, 2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jul 14 - Aug 12, 2022 Mantiqueira is a mountain range in Southern Brazil that forms a natural border separating Minas Gerais from the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Its name derives from the indigenous Tupi language and translates to “mountains that... View Exhibition -
Nosotros los otros
Paulo Nazareth May 6 – Jun 11, 2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 6 - Jun 11, 2022 Mendes Wood DM is delighted to announce Nosotros los otros, a solo presentation of Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth at the inaugural presentation of Mendes Wood DM in New York City. Nosotros los otros, brings together bodies of work from... View Exhibition -
Tt X AB: "The Lot Show"
Alvaro Barrington and Teresa Farrell Sep 12 – Oct 9, 2021 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 12 - Oct 9, 2021 Installed on a beachside lot in Far Rockaway, NY, The Lot Show picks up where Barrington and Farrell’s fall 2019 London project, Tall Boys and a Double Espresso, left off. Having met in undergrad at Hunter College in 2009,... View Exhibition -
At The Luss House
Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing: Group Exhibition Apr 7 – Jul 24, 2021 New York At the Luss House Apr 7 — Jul 24, 2021 At The Luss House Takes Place in the Ossining, NY Midcentury Home of Gerald Luss, Designer Best Known for the Interiors of the Time-Life building. The Second Iteration of a Collaborative Exhibition within an Architect’s Own Home — Blum... View Exhibition -
Arrebol
Paula Siebra Feb 2 – 20, 2021 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Feb 2 - Feb 20, 2021 Paula Siebra’s debut exhibition at Mendes Wood DM in New York is marked by a quiet and studious consideration for the often-discarded events of everyday. Her simple and still compositions enshrine or crystalize small moments of being; coffee and... View Exhibition -
Eleonore Koch: The Essential Painter
Eleonore Koch Nov 24, 2020 – Jan 16, 2021 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 24, 2020 - Jan 16, 2021 Mendes Wood DM, New York and Modern Art, London are proud to present two concurrent exhibitions devoted to German- Brazilian painter Eleonore Koch (1926-2018). The exhibitions bring together a group of works produced from the start of... View Exhibition -
At The Noyes House
Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM, and Object & Thing Sep 15 – Nov 28, 2020 New York At The Noyes House Sept - Nov 28, 2020 Once upon a time , a black beast lived in a little house in the woods. It kept its back arched against the sky, all the better for children to crawl on it – for the beast was friendly, and... View Exhibition -
Landscapes of the South
Group Exhibition Jan 30 – Apr 30, 2020 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jan 30 - Apr 30, 2020 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Landscapes of the South, a group exhibition themed around the representation of landscapes in South America. Comprised of works made between 1659 and 2019, the works on view were made by early... View Exhibition -
Paulo Monteiro
Paulo Monteiro Oct 29 – Dec 20, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Oct 29 - Dec 20, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Paulo Monteiro’s first exhibition in New York, bringing together a new body of paintings and sculptures. Monteiro continues his ongoing reconciliation of the dual forms of painting and sculpture by constructing a... View Exhibition -
In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day
Paloma Bosquê Sep 11 – Oct 19, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 11 - Oct 19, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day, an exhibition of new work by Paloma Bosquê. Paloma Bosquê is a sculptor who tends to put that talent in service of a wider,... View Exhibition -
Resilience and Reverberation
Leticia Ramos Jun 27 – Aug 24, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 27 - Aug 24, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Resiliency and Reverberation , the first solo exhibition in the United States by Brazilian artist Leticia Ramos. Her complex images synthesize technique and illusion by exploring the limits of analog photography. For... View Exhibition -
Hudson Bathers
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Apr 30 – Jun 15, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Apr 30 - Jun 15, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Hudson Bathers , an exhibition of new work by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. For his first show at Mendes Wood DM in New York, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy fills the gallery with canvases that line the... View Exhibition -
Lorenzato
Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato Jan 23 – Feb 16, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jan 23 - Feb 16, 2019 Mendes Wood DM, New York is pleased to present an exhibition of works by the seminal Brazilian painter Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900–1995). Comprised of paintings made between 1973 and 1993, this exhibition marks his first solo presentation in the... View Exhibition -
Solange Pessoa
Solange Pessoa Nov 16 – Dec 16, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 16 - Dec 16, 2018 For her first solo exhibition in New York, Solange Pessoa (b. 1961) is exhibiting two bodies of work. New ceramic and bronze sculptures from the series Metaflor-Metaflora, from which vegetation and feathers spring forth, as well as the final... View Exhibition -
lusco – fusco
Patricia Leite Sep 19 – Oct 12, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 19 - Oct 12, 2018 Patricia Leite’s exhibition lusco-fusco [last light of the day] presents a new body of painting inspired by momentary meetings of darkness and light. Inviting us to grasp the sensation of an object alight, Leite portrays light alive with vibration,... View Exhibition -
Natura Naturans
Group Exhibition Jun 26 – Aug 30, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 26 - Aug 30, 2018 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Natura Naturans, an exhibition which explores the dynamic interplay between nature and creative agency. The diverse group of artists whose work is gathered here, investigate nature beyond a fixed subject or finite... View Exhibition -
Pele de Dentro
Antonio Obá May 1 – Jun 22, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 1 - Jun 22, 2018 The works that Antonio Obá has been developing over the years, a selection of which are in this exhibition, pass through various languages of the visual arts, such as his exquisite drawings that point out the exquisite mastery of... View Exhibition -
Dadamaino
Dadamaino Feb 28 – Apr 24, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York February 28 – April 24, 2018 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Dadamaino’s frst solo exhibition in New York City. Dadamaino (b. Emilia Maino, 1930 – 2004) was a protagonist of the post-war Milanese avant-garde. Though often perceived as a solitary character, she was... View Exhibition -
Celso Renato
Celso Renato Nov 14, 2017 – Jan 16, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York November 14, 2017 - January 16, 2018 Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the first solo exhibition by Minas Gerais artist Celso Renato (1919 – 1992) in the last 20 years. His career as an artist began when he was middle-aged, starting in... View Exhibition -
INNOMINATE
Paulo Nazareth Sep 18 – Nov 11, 2017 New York Mendes Wood DM New York September 18 – November 11, 2017 Paulo Nazareth (b. 1977, Brazil) often draws on his Afro-Brazilian and Native American heritage to investigate social constructions of race and identity. Celebrated for his complex, multi-year walk performances – his three year walk from Brazil to New York... View Exhibition -
Days and Horizons
Lucas Arruda & On Kawara Mar 3 – Apr 29, 2017 New York Mendes Wood DM New York March 3 — April 29, 2017 What at might first seem to be an unusual pairing – the date paintings of conceptualism ’ s late-great existentialist On Kawara, and a Brazilian painter born in 1980 who is predominantly given to depicting imaginary seascape horizon lines... View Exhibition -
HIC SVNT DRACONES
A.R. Penck & Sonia Gomes Feb 5 – Jun 30, 2017 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 2 – June 30, 2017 HIC SVNT DRACONES is pleased to present Sonia Gomes and A.R. Penck , an exhibition of sculptures by two iconic artists exploring mixed media with an emphasis on fabric-based works, aluminum foil and wood. While Penck explores new systems... View Exhibition
