Jammie Holmes: Morning Thoughts
10 October - 16 November 2024
Marianne Boesky Gallery
507 West 24th Street

Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Morning Thoughts, an exhibition of new work by Jammie Holmes (b. 1984; Thibodaux; LA). The exhibition brings forth a new vein of Holmes’ practice in which he focuses on gardens and flowers rather than purely human subjects, imbuing large-scale paintings with potent narratives of love and loss, hope and survival, community and resistance. “You can feel the people in the flowers,” commented Holmes.

Throughout his intimate, intuitive paintings, Holmes captures poignant narratives of Black families, communities, and traditions in the American South. Drawing on memory and personal experience throughout his work, Holmes intersperses reflections on social, cultural, and political concerns with deeply felt meditations on family and home. With Morning Thoughts, Holmes probes the symbolic power of flowers. Read more in the press release linked here.

Morning Thoughts will be on view alongside Hannah van Bart: Inner Homeland in Marianne Boesky Gallery’s adjacent Chelsea space at 509 West 24th Street. (press kit: www.molly.nyc/innerhomeland).

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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of the exhibition, with the credit line “copyright of the artist and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery”