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Artist Spotlight

Jennifer Guidi

April 22–28, 2020

Light and color pervade every aspect of Jennifer Guidi’s work. The Los Angeles artist’s radiant, mandala-like paintings are marked by tonal and chromatic shifts that operate in concert with richly textured surfaces. The effect echoes natural phenomena and undergirds a powerful archetypal symbolism. Guidi mixes sand into her paints—she uses both oils and acrylics—to produce immersive abstract compositions that borrow from the pared-down structures of Minimalism while evoking ancient theories of energy and perception.

Created in response to the covid-19 pandemic, the Artist Spotlight series highlights individual artists, one week at a time, whose exhibitions have been affected by the health crisis. A single artwork by the artist is made available with pricing information for forty-eight hours only.

Artist Spotlight: Jennifer Guidi features a new work directly from the artist’s studio. The work will be unveiled below on Friday, April 24, at 6am edt. For more information, please contact the gallery at collecting@gagosian.com.

Photo: Brica Wilcox

Photo: Brica Wilcox

Jennifer Guidi, We Shine Outward Into the Universe (Gemini and Cancer), 2019.

Shortlist
Twelve Tracks: Jennifer Guidi

Jennifer Guidi shares a selection of the music she listens to in the studio and speaks about its connection to her meditative painting process.

Jennifer Guidi in her Los Angeles studio, 2020.

Jennifer Guidi

The artist speaks with Laura Fried about her most recent paintings, the symbol of the serpent, and her evolving relationship to color.

Jennifer Guidi’s Hawk Soars Skyward (Painted Natural Sand, Yellow-Orange-Pink Sky, Green, Purple and Black Mountains, Red, Blue, Purple, Turquoise, Yellow, Orange, Lavender and Green, Black Ground), 2023

Jennifer Guidi: Mountain Range

Invited to exhibit at Château La Coste in Provence, Jennifer Guidi created a new body of work that engaged with the cantilevered architecture of the gallery building, designed by Richard Rogers, and with the artistic heritage of the region. Amie Corry reports on the evolution of the exhibition and on its place within Guidi’s larger practice.

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Jennifer Guidi: Mountain Range

In this video, produced by Château La Coste, Jennifer Guidi discusses her latest solo exhibition, Mountain Range, conceived in response to the architecture of Château La Coste’s Richard Rogers Gallery and the surrounding landscape of Provence in the South of France. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Gagosian, is now on view through September 3, 2023.

The cover of the Spring 2020 edition of the Gagosian Quarterly magazine. A Cindy Sherman photograph of herself dressed as a clown against a rainbow background.

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2020

The Spring 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #412 (2003) on its cover.

(RED) Auction 2018

(RED) Auction 2018

Theaster Gates and Sir David Adjaye join Bono to spearhead (RED)’s third auction of contemporary art and design, raising funds for the global fight against AIDS. As Gagosian prepares the preview exhibition, Gillian Pistell looks at the urgency of this vital cause.

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Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: And so it is., Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, September 15, 2023–February 18, 2024. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Yubo Dong, ofstudio

In Conversation

Jennifer Guidi
Heidi Zuckerman

Sunday, January 28, 2024, 3pm
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California
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Join the Orange County Museum of Art for a conversation between Jennifer Guidi and OCMA CEO and director Heidi Zuckerman on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition And so it is., on view through February 18, 2024. The pair will discuss exploring the spiritual and metaphysical world, the importance of place, and Guidi’s rich history growing up in Orange County. The event is free to attend.

Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: And so it is., Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, September 15, 2023–February 18, 2024. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Yubo Dong, ofstudio

Jennifer Guidi: Heliocentric (Hong Kong: Gagosian, 2018)

Online Reading

Jennifer Guidi
Heliocentric

Jennifer Guidi: Heliocentric is available for online reading from April 22 through May 21 as part of Artist Spotlight: Jennifer Guidi. Her first exhibition with Gagosian, Heliocentric featured fourteen luminous paintings with surfaces that oscillate between color and texture. Images of these works, as well as installation views of the exhibition, are accompanied by an essay by Stuart Krimko in this accompanying publication.

Jennifer Guidi: Heliocentric (Hong Kong: Gagosian, 2018)

Sarah Sze, Turning and Turning, 2024 © Sarah Sze. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Art Fair

Art Basel Hong Kong 2024

March 27–30, 2024
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
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Gagosian is participating in Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 with a selection of works by international contemporary artists. The works on view, which embrace a dizzying variety of subjects and approaches, see the participating artists identify fresh ways to disrupt established histories of abstraction and figuration, and instill sculptural and painterly representations of the natural world with complex cultural significance.

Sarah Sze, Turning and Turning, 2024 © Sarah Sze. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

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Museum Exhibitions

Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: And so it is., Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, September 15, 2023–February 18, 2024. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Yubo Dong, ofstudio

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Jennifer Guidi
And so it is.

September 15, 2023–February 18, 2024
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California
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And so it is.Jennifer Guidi’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States—surveys the artist’s work over the last ten years and features a number of new paintings. Using a methodical system in which sand is applied directly to the surface of the canvas while wet, Guidi creates a ritualistic, repetitive choreography—one entirely her own. Focusing on the importance of place, especially evident within Guidi’s embrace of the colors of California—the fleeting pink and red of its sunrises and sunsets, the hazy light of Los Angeles—the show reveals an intricate body of work that operates as its own energy source.

Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: And so it is., Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, September 15, 2023–February 18, 2024. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Yubo Dong, ofstudio

Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: Mountain Range, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, June 20–September 3, 2023. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Frédéric Desimoni

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Jennifer Guidi
Mountain Range

June 20–September 3, 2023
Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
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Jennifer Guidi has conceived a unique installation of her work in response to the architecture of Château La Coste’s Richard Rogers Gallery and the context of the Provence region in the South of France. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Gagosian, features two large paintings, hanging back-to-back and suspended in midair, which bisect the gallery and playfully interrupt the expected vista of the Luberon mountain range with Guidi’s imagined landscapes. On the walls, smaller mountainscapes, acting almost as windows, lead visitors through the space and provide unique vignettes rich in color, form, and texture.

To learn more watch Guidi speak about the project in a video produced by Château La Coste for Gagosian Quarterly.

Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: Mountain Range, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, June 20–September 3, 2023. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Frédéric Desimoni

Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: Full Moon, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, July 1–August 21, 2022. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi

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Jennifer Guidi
Full Moon

July 1–October 16, 2022
Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
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Full Moon—Jennifer Guidi’s first solo institutional exhibition in China—surveys the artist’s work to date and features a number of new paintings. The exhibition’s title emphasizes the cosmological and mystical roots of Guidi’s practice. Her abstract compositions refer to the natural world literally and visually as she mixes sand with paint to depict arresting natural and metaphysical phenomena.

Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: Full Moon, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, July 1–August 21, 2022. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi

Jennifer Guidi, Seeking Hearts (Black MT, Pink Sand, Pink CS, Pink Ground), 2021 © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Brica Wilcox

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Artists Inspired by Music
Interscope Reimagined

January 30–February 13, 2022
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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To mark the thirtieth anniversary of Interscope Records, the company invited artists to select albums and songs from Interscope’s groundbreaking catalogue and fostered exchanges between artists and musicians to generate resonant pairings. The exhibition, which includes more than fifty works, brings an intergenerational group of visual artists into dialogue with iconic musicians from the last three decades, providing a fresh perspective on influential music for the present moment. Work by John Currin, Jennifer Guidi, Damien Hirst, Titus Kaphar, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, and Anna Weyant is included.

Jennifer Guidi, Seeking Hearts (Black MT, Pink Sand, Pink CS, Pink Ground), 2021 © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Brica Wilcox

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