March 12 — April 26, 2025
New York: 64th Street
“Painting may find its subjects in everyday life, but it removes from them, precisely, their reality, like the moisture extracted from flowers in order to preserve them.”
—Barry Schwabsky
Though the artworld in recent years has privileged explicit narrative over formal nuance, Gillian Carnegie has long insisted that her subject matter remains secondary to the act of painting itself. The artists recurring motifs—cats, staircases, dried flowers, portraits, and trees—serve merely as the foundations for her process. Liberated from narrative convention, Carnegie’s approach allows the viewer to focus solely on the paintings themselves, inviting us to experience her imagery as a series of ephemeral moments that document pure visual perception.
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About
Gillian Carnegie (b. 1971, Suffolk, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. In 1998, she graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, and in 2018 was a Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London. Her work has been subject to solo exhibitions at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany; dépendance, Brussels; Cabinet Gallery, London; and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. Her work has also appeared in group shows at Gladstone Gallery, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Greene Naftali Gallery, New York; Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland; Plateau Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; and Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Tate, London. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2005, and in 2016 was the recipient of the Jury of John Moores Painting Prize 2016, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Institutional collections include: Tate; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Government Art Collection, United Kingdom; Arts Council Collections, United Kingdom; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.
