Chelsea: The Big Guns

Paul Thek: Dream of Vanishing presents more than fifty paintings, sculptures, and drawings spanning Thek's career from the early 1960s through his death in 1988, including a suite of never-before-seen ten-foot scrolls gifted to Robert Wilson. The exhibition foregrounds Thek's painting practice — long overshadowed by his infamous Technological Reliquaries, the wax "meat pieces" that skewered Minimalism and Pop with Catholic grotesquerie — tracing his work from Italian canvases through the "bad paintings" of his final years, made in the face of an AIDS diagnosis. Taking its title from a line in one of his notebooks, the show honors Thek's lifelong preoccupation with disappearance, erasure, and the ephemeral.

May 15 - Aug 14

Kelly Akashi: Heirloom turns toward loss and grief, asking how absence is held, transmitted, and given form. Bronze roses and irises cast directly from Akashi's garden — where her home and studio once stood — become relics of domesticity and care. A monumental rendering of an inherited stone ring, enlarged to geological scale, stages a confrontation with grief's capacity to exceed containment. Corten steel panels cut from her grandmother's lace tablecloth demarcate a space of interruption that resists closure, their weathering surface accumulating time as structural integrity. Glass works complete the exhibition, including a mallow plant — a species that emerges from disturbed soil — recreated with its root system exposed.

May 13 - Jul 25

Alex Prager: Matinee presents four new large-scale photographs that position Los Angeles as both subject and muse, examining distorted memory and myth-making through the city's enduring allure and ephemerality. Constructed entirely in-camera with meticulous mise-en-scène, the works probe the psychological and cultural undercurrents shaping generations of narratives and identities. Bonnie Hill (Overlook) captures a psychologically charged moment of suspension through the city's iconic overlook motif; Ceremony constructs a contemporary Renaissance-style tableau around Hollywood's ritual of dressing for performance. Time and memory collapse boundaries between reality and artifice, the sinister and the frivolous — oppositions that feel increasingly inseparable in our current cultural moment.

Jun 11 - Aug 14

The exhibition surveys David Lamelas’s multifaceted practice across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and film. A performance, a nonlinear presentation of works from 1965 to the present, and a film program together reflect his ongoing investigation of information, communication, and perception.

Mar 6 - Jan 16

Meg Webster presents new sculptures and drawings following Webster's major exhibition at Dia Beacon. The centerpiece, Thicket (2026), layers plant cuttings into a dense spiraling structure wide enough to enter, making the body an active participant in the work. New drawings on paper use organic materials — spices, powdered vegetables and flowers — rubbed directly onto square sheets, centering color, texture, and scent. A three-part beeswax sculptural relief extends this engagement with embodied perception. Throughout, Webster continues her four-decade practice of bringing natural materials into dialogue with Minimalism's formal vocabulary.

May 9 - Jul 24

Many A Moonlit Caveat presents new paintings and works on paper by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye across both Jack Shainman Gallery locations, in Tribeca and Chelsea. In Yiadom-Boakye's work, fiction is the condition of freedom. The exhibition takes its cues from the accompanying poem written by the artist—a fable of nocturnal birds who know better than to trust, consume, or be touched by those who would harm them. The Nightingale knows best: to be unseen is often to be truly free.

Apr 24 - Jul 31