Events
Screening
Anna Weyant Selects
March 22–April 2, 2024
Metrograph, New York
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Anna Weyant has curated a selection of three films as part of an ongoing series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. Weyant comments, “The experience of watching each of these films is markedly different with respect to their individual style, storytelling, aesthetic, and dialogue. When I consider what it is about these stories that resonates with me, I am repeatedly drawn to their through lines of the power dynamics, complexities, and deceptions in relationships (and society); the uneasiness that comes from not fully knowing one’s surroundings (or the company one keeps); and our inherent desires for connection in an increasingly isolating world.”
Featured films include
Lost in Translation (2003, directed by Sofia Coppola)
Gone Girl (2014, directed by David Fincher)
Parasite (2019, directed by Bong Joon Ho)
Still from Gone Girl (2013), directed by David Fincher
Screening and Talk
Anna Weyant
Austin Weyant
Friday, March 22, 2024, 6:30pm
Metrograph, New York
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This event is sold out.
Join Anna Weyant and her brother, actor Austin Weyant, for a conversation and screening on the occasion of Anna Weyant Selects, a film program curated by the artist as part of an ongoing series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. The pair will introduce the selected films—Lost in Translation (2003), Gone Girl (2014), and Parasite (2019)—which explore power dynamics, complexities, and deceptions in relationships and wider society, as well as discuss the impact film has had on their respective practices. After the talk, Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola, will be screened.
Still from Lost in Translation (2003), directed by Sofia Coppola
Commission
Anna Weyant
La Forza del Destino
January 30–March 31, 2024
Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York
www.metopera.org
As part of the Gallery Met Banners project, the Metropolitan Opera has commissioned Anna Weyant to create a painting to celebrate the staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Italian opera La Forza del Destino. The work will be reproduced in the form of a sixty-foot banner installed on the façade of Lincoln Center in New York during the production. Weyant’s painting, which shares the same name as the opera, portrays Leonora, the tortured principal character, with closed eyes, bright red lips, and a single visible pearl earring. The words “Forza” and “Destino” are rendered in a vintage font with a scarlet hue and bloody “dripping” effect, evoking posters for classic Italian-made horror movies of the 1950s and ’60s.
Anna Weyant, La Forza del Destino, 2023, installation view, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York © Anna Weyant. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera
Fundraiser
Artist Plate Project 2022
Coalition for the Homeless
Launching May 22, 2023, 10am edt
Limited-edition bone china plates produced by Prospect and featuring artwork by more than forty artists—including Virgil Abloh, Derrick Adams, Harold Ancart, Georg Baselitz, Amoako Boafo, Mark Grotjahn, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Ed Ruscha, Anna Weyant, and Jonas Wood—will be sold through Artware Editions to raise funds for the Coalition’s lifesaving programs. The funds raised by the sale of the plates will provide food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability. The purchase of one plate can feed one hundred homeless and hungry New Yorkers.
Takashi Murakami, Gargantua on Your Palm, 2018 © 2018 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
Panel Discussion
Anna Weyant, Hilary Harkness, Hiba Schahbaz
Moderated by Glenn Fuhrman
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 5:30pm
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
www.flagartfoundation.org
Join FLAG Art Foundation for a panel discussion between Anna Weyant and fellow artists Hilary Harkness and Hiba Schahbaz, moderated by FLAG founder Glenn Fuhrman, on the occasion of the opening of In New York, Thinking of You: Part II. The group will discuss the works in the exhibition, which was inspired by the often conflicting emotions and experiences described in the song “hornylovesickmess” by Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven (aka the girl in red), including desire, longing, sex, melancholy, vulnerability, and power.
Left: Anna Weyant. Photo: courtesy the artist. Middle: Hilary Harkness. Photo: Paul Porter. Right: Hiba Schahbaz. Photo: courtesy the artist
Announcements
New Representation
Anna Weyant
Gagosian is pleased to announce the gallery’s global representation of painter Anna Weyant. The artist will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the gallery in New York this fall. Weyant’s precisely rendered paintings depict figures embroiled in tragicomic narratives, and still-life compositions in which everyday objects adopt an uncanny, portentous air.
Photo: courtesy the artist
Museum Exhibitions
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Friends & Lovers
October 6, 2023–January 20, 2024
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
www.flagartfoundation.org
Friends & Lovers is an expansive group exhibition that centers on the relationships between fifty artists and their subjects and explores the infinite ways in which we are influenced by our inner circles. Just as a studio visit opens a window onto an artist’s creative process, whom the artists choose to immortalize through their work—be that a lover, partner, family member, friend, celebrity crush, or a fleeting encounter—provides a similarly fascinating insight into their practice. Work by John Currin, Nan Goldin, Rudolf Stingel, and Anna Weyant is included.
Installation view, Friends & Lovers, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, October 6, 2023–January 20, 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Paul Mpagi Sepuya, © Anna Weyant, © Alessandro Teoldi, © Sung Jik Yang. Photo: Steven Probert
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Anna Weyant in
In New York, Thinking of You: Part II
May 6–June 3, 2023
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
www.flagartfoundation.org
In New York, Thinking of You is a two-part group exhibition featuring largely new or never-before-shown artworks by over two dozen female, female-identifying, and nonbinary artists. Centering on painting, the exhibition highlights a range of subjects, formal disciplines, conceptual practices, and approaches to art making. Work by Anna Weyant is included.
Anna Weyant, It’s a Heartache, 2023 © Anna Weyant
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Anna Weyant in
Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place & Identity
February 12–May 15, 2022
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
www.greenfamilyartfoundation.org
Celebrating the unique voices of some of the most compelling rising female artists working today, Women of Now features twenty-eight artists who synthesize memory and a sense of place as artistic tools to impart their unique identities to the world, generating a conversation about what it means to be a woman in our time. Work by Anna Weyant is included.
Anna Weyant, Maggie, 2019 © Anna Weyant
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Artists Inspired by Music
Interscope Reimagined
January 30–February 13, 2022
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.lacma.org
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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and I will wear you in my heart of heart
May 1–August 13, 2021
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
www.flagartfoundation.org
Centering on a gesture of care, the exhibition and I will wear you in my heart of heart explores the myriad ways in which thirty-five artists evoke tenderness through depictions of lovers and friends, familial exchanges, moments of solitude, and even a cowboy and his pastel pink unicorn. The exhibition includes recent and new works created for the exhibition that embody the cross-generational resurgence in figuration as a mode of exploring identity, cultural histories, and personal experiences. Work by John Currin and Anna Weyant is included.
Installation view, and I will wear you in my heart of heart, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, May 1–August 31, 2021. Artwork, left to right: © John Currin, © Anna Weyant. Photo: Steven Probert