Gagosian is pleased to announce Social Abstraction, a two-part exhibition in Beverly Hills and Hong Kong curated by Antwaun Sargent. On view from July 18 to August 30, Social Abstraction in Beverly Hills features work by Kyle Abraham, Kevin Beasley, Allana Clarke, Theaster Gates, Cy Gavin, Alteronce Gumby, Lauren Halsey, Kahlil Robert Irving, Devin B. Johnson, Rick Lowe, Eric N. Mack, Cameron Welch, and Amanda Williams. It will be followed this fall by a second iteration in Hong Kong.
The intergenerational assembly of Black artists in Social Abstraction explores the intersections of nonrepresentational form and social consciousness. Moving between and beyond the poles of abstraction and figuration, they form shapes to become landscape and cityscape, color to reveal people and explore the limits of perception, and texture to map the totality of lived experience. Whereas some artists in Social Abstraction paint in oils and acrylics, others use ceramics, hair glue, mosaics, resins, textiles, wigs, and other materials charged with conceptual and cultural significance.
Image info/credit:
KEVIN BEASLEY
Harvest Slab (Pane I), 2024
Raw Virginia cotton and polyurethane resin
24 x 16 inches (61 x 40.6 cm)
© Kevin Beasley
Photo: Maris Hutchinson
Courtesy the artist, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Casey Kaplan, New York, and Gagosian
