Coded Language - the Art of Hidden Narratives: A conversation and book signing
February 1, 2024 6–7:30 PM
Lyles & King, 19 Henry St
RSVP to gallery@lylesandking.com
Lyles & King and Phaidon are pleased to announce a conversation between Robert Zeller, Ginny Casey, Inka Essenhigh and Kurt Kauper, inside the exhibition Roses Grow in Southern Soil by Akea Brionne, to celebrate the publication of New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting, Zeller’s sweeping survey of Surrealism and its legacy in contemporary art today. The book demonstrates the many ways in which Surrealism continues to be relevant today and it features an international selection of contemporary artists, including Jessie Makinson and Rosa Loy, who are among the gallery’s program. The discussion is based on one of the main themes of the book; the use of visual symbolism to convey hidden meanings that are sometimes personal to the artist, sometimes universal in scope. After the conversation, Zeller will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase.
Robert Zeller earned a BFA from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He is the recipient of two Posey Fellowships and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He has curated group exhibitions in New York City and exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Mexico. He has written two books for Monacelli Press/Phaidon International; The Figurative Artist's Handbook, and New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting. He has contributed essays to the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia; The Brooklyn Rail and other influential art periodicals and blogs.
Kurt Kauper (b. 1966; Indianapolis, IN) attended BU and UCLA. His paintings are marked by ambiguity, indeterminacy, and an insistence on the value of the purely formal. Has shown at ACME, Deitch Projects, Almine Rech, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art. Major group shows include the Whitney Museum and the Pompidou Center. Kauper's art is in the collections of MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA, the Whitney Museum, and SFMOMA. He's a Professor of Art at Queens College. Represented by Marc Selwyn Fine Art and Ortuzar Projects, his upcoming solo show is in November 2024. Kauper lives and works in New York.
Ginny Casey (b. 1981; Niskayuna, NY) received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Half Gallery in New York, NY and Nino Mier Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. Ginny’s work has been included in group shows at Almine Rech, The Hole and Blum and Poe; and has been reviewed in ArtForum, Art in America and The New Yorker. She lives and works in Bergen County, NJ.
Inka Essenhigh (b. 1969; Bellefonte, PA) is from Columbus Ohio and moved to NYC to attend graduate school at SVA. She has exhibited with Dietch, Mary Boone, 303 and Baldwin in Aspen. She is currently represented by Miles McEnery In NYC, and Victoria Miro gallery in London. Her work is in many museum collections including the Tate, MoMA, the Hammer, and has been included in many international shows such as the São Paulo Biennale, Berlin Biennial, MoMA PS1 greater NYC, as well as many solo museum shows, most recently at the Frist museum in Nashville and at the Virginia music of Contemporary Art. She lives and works in New York.