Greene Naftali is delighted to announce its third solo show with MONIKA BAER, whose disarming subversions of her chosen medium have made her one of the most challenging painters working today. The exhibition features a new suite of paintings that inhabit tropes of modernism—from the monochrome to the graffiti-like scrawls that connote raw impulse and liberatory energy. Here trompe l'oeil brick walls are largely covered (or subsumed) by textured zones of spackled grit, incised with crude line drawings stained with washes of lavender that settle into each ridge and furrow. Layering both illusionistic and brute indexical marks, profane motifs and delicate hues, Baer stages painting as a receptive surface for the obscenities of our times.
