reasons to be cheerful
April 24 — June 1, 2024
Brusse
Gladstone presents new and recent works by Banks Violette in the artist’s first exhibition with the Gallery in Brussels. Organized in collaboration with Rodolphe Janssen, the show is composed of recent sculptures and drawings that reimagine culturally entrenched symbols found across music, art, theatre, and fashion in the artist’s stark monochrome and industrial aesthetics. Throughout his career, Violette has sourced inspiration from various subcultures, drawing from his deep involvement and enduring fascination with black metal, gothic and post-punk communities, producing an oeuvre that asserts the formal qualities of minimalist and conceptual art while contending with the dark recesses of American society.
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About
Courtesy of BPS22, Photography © Leslie Artamonow
Banks Violette (b. 1973, Ithaca, New York) lives and works in Ithaca, New York. He received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, New York and his M.F.A. from Columbia University, New York. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including those at BPS22 in Charleroi, Belgium; Museum Dhont-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium; Kunsthalle Wien; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Kunsthalle Bergen, Norway; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has also participated in group exhibitions at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Royal Academy, London; MoMA PS1, Queens, New York; and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, among others.
