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Cy Gavin, Untitled (Moon), 2022 © Cy Gavin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Exhibition

100 Years

Opening reception: Monday, November 28, 5–8pm
November 29–December 4, 2022
Buick Building, Miami
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Gagosian is pleased to announce 100 Years, the gallery’s seventh annual group exhibition in collaboration with Jeffrey Deitch. On view during Miami Art Week at the historic Buick Building in the city’s Design District, and online at gagosian-deitch.com, 100 Years explores the interplay of past, present, and future through contemporary works in a range of mediums. It focuses on artists who recognize the critical nature of a period of sweeping social and cultural change while alluding to the ephemerality of human life and memory. And while in dialogue with the art of the past century, it also anticipates possible future advances. Some works consider the absurdities and crises of past, present, and future through cyclical, endless, or unresolved situations; others reflect on the passage of time as it is manifested in or by human or animal life, or approach it from the perspective of global cultural, political, ideological, and spiritual histories and customs.

Cy Gavin, Untitled (Moon), 2022 © Cy Gavin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Announcements

Cy Gavin, Untitled (Crossroads/meadow), 2022 © Cy Gavin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Award

Cy Gavin
Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize 2023

Cy Gavin has been named the winner of the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, awarded by the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Presented each year at the museum’s fall gala, the prize recognizes and honors the artistic achievements of an African-American artist who demonstrates great innovation, promise, and creativity. It was established in 2006 by philanthropist George Wein to honor his late wife, Joyce Alexander Wein (1928–2005), a longtime trustee of the Studio Museum and a woman whose life embodied a commitment to the power and possibilities of art and culture.

Cy Gavin, Untitled (Crossroads/meadow), 2022 © Cy Gavin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Photo: Marco Giannavola

New Representation

Cy Gavin

Gagosian is pleased to announce the global representation of Cy Gavin. In his recent work, Gavin paints metaphorical interpretations of sites that have been shaped over time by human intervention and geological or cosmic phenomena. Composed with fluid, gestural brushstrokes in striking colors, they are at times monumental in scale. Following his debut solo exhibition at the gallery, which opened in February 2023 in New York, Gagosian will present an exhibition of new paintings by Gavin this fall in Rome. 

Photo: Marco Giannavola

Museum Exhibitions

Harold Ancart, The Guiding Light, 2021, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York © Harold Ancart. Photo: Ryan Lowry

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Whitney Biennial 2022
Quiet as It’s Kept

April 6–October 16, 2022
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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The Whitney Biennial was established in 1932 by the museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, to chart developments in art in the United States. The 2022 Biennial presents dynamic selections that take different forms over the course of the exhibition: artworks—even walls—change, and performance animates the galleries and objects. With an intergenerational and interdisciplinary roster of sixty-three artists and collectives at all points in their careers, many of whom work with an interdisciplinary perspective, the Biennial surveys and presents the art and ideas of our time. Work by Harold Ancart, Ellen Gallagher, Cy Gavin, and Rick Lowe is included.

Harold Ancart, The Guiding Light, 2021, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York © Harold Ancart. Photo: Ryan Lowry

Installation view, Cy Gavin, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, March 30–July 11, 2021. Artwork © Cy Gavin

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Cy Gavin

March 30–July 11, 2021
Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
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This exhibition features recent paintings by Cy Gavin depicting natural surroundings both close to home and at a distance. The movements alluded to in these canvases could be thought of with regard to migratory patterns, such as the dispersion of people from one country to another. The show examines the way in which the changing political landscape redefines citizenship.

Installation view, Cy Gavin, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, March 30–July 11, 2021. Artwork © Cy Gavin

Nathaniel Mary Quinn, You Ought to Be With Me, 2018 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn

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Dreamweavers

February 13–April 13, 2019
UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, California
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Dreamweavers contemplates the surreal in society against a vigorously shifting twenty-first century. The group exhibition examines the paradox of fact and fantasy through the lens of artists who operate from a deeply imaginative, often provocative, psychological space. Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean has collaborated with UTA Artists Space and curator Nicola Vassell to present the show. Work by Cy Gavin and Nathaniel Mary Quinn is included.

Nathaniel Mary Quinn, You Ought to Be With Me, 2018 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Installation view, The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, March 3, 2018–March 10, 2019. Artwork © Cy Gavin. Photo: David Dashiell

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The Lure of the Dark
Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night

March 3, 2018–March 10, 2019
MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
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For centuries, painters have been drawn to the mysteries and marvels of the night and its perceptual and poetic possibilities. This exhibition is about night and the light that illuminates the darkness. It features paintings that illustrate the ways in which the hours of darkness continue to provoke the contemporary imagination. Work by Cy Gavin and Alexandria Smith is included.

Installation view, The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, March 3, 2018–March 10, 2019. Artwork © Cy Gavin. Photo: David Dashiell

Cy Gavin, The Future of Tucker’s Point, 2015 © Cy Gavin

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Cy Gavin in
Between the Waters

March 9–April 22, 2018
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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This exhibition brings together artists from across the United States whose work responds to the precarious state of the environment through a personal lens. Experimenting with form and narrative in painting, video, and sculpture, these artists address how ideology—as much as technology, industry, and architecture—impacts all living things. Work by Cy Gavin is included.

Cy Gavin, The Future of Tucker’s Point, 2015 © Cy Gavin

Installation view, High Anxiety: New Acquisitions, Rubell Museum, Miami, November 30, 2016–August 25, 2017. Artwork © Cy Gavin. Photo: Chi Lam, courtesy Rubell Museum, Miami

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High Anxiety
New Acquisitions

November 30, 2016–August 25, 2017
Rubell Museum, Miami
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High Anxiety: New Acquisitions presents a selection of artworks by thirty-two artists acquired by the museum since 2014, many of which explore polarizing social and political concerns through a broad spectrum of practices. In gauging the output and energies of these artists we find creative currents that speak to our shared state of uncertainty, nervousness, and pessimism. Work by Harold Ancart, Cy Gavin, and Jordan Wolfson is included.

Installation view, High Anxiety: New Acquisitions, Rubell Museum, Miami, November 30, 2016–August 25, 2017. Artwork © Cy Gavin. Photo: Chi Lam, courtesy Rubell Museum, Miami

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