Sublime Spirit
20 June - 26 July 2024
Marianne Boesky Gallery
507 West 24 Street

Highlighting the practices of 12 artists from around the world, Sublime Spirit explores the animal urge to give oneself over to nature, to retreat from society and return to an arcadia of one’s own imagining. Featuring work by Nicola Bailey, Kim Booker, Mirela Cabral, Hadi Falapishi, Luiza Gottschalk, Thalita Hamaoui, Jay Heikes, Oliver Hemsley, Dora Jeridi, Nathalie Khayat, Antonio Ballester Moreno, and Mari Ra, Sublime Spirit examines the innately human desire to escape the world we have made. Drawing on the awe of 18th-century Romanticism and the reverence of 19th-century Transcendentalism, these artists imagine the viscerality of the wild in contemporary terms. In these landscapes—conjured from memory or imagination, rendered in dynamic, expressionistic gestures or careful, considered geometries—the natural world perpetuates itself, overtaking any lingering traces of the man-made, calling to the fore the awesome power of the wild. Read more in the press release linked here.

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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 web-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”