Casey Kaplan is pleased to present Works on Paper, a group exhibition featuring new and early works by twenty-six artists from the gallery program: Igshaan Adams, Kevin Beasley, Matthew Brannon, Sydney Cain, Nathan Carter, Jordan Casteel, Jason Dodge, Judith Eisler, Jonathan Gardner, Liam Gillick, Giorgio Griffa, David Huffman, Brian Jungen, Caroline Kent, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Mateo López, Jonathan Monk, Diego Perrone, Kaveri Raina, Matthew Ronay, Simon Starling, David Thorpe, Johanna Unzueta, Ella Walker, Garth Weiser, and Amanda Williams.
For the first time at the gallery, an exhibition centers working on paper as a way to encounter an artist’s process from a different point of view, yielding a taxonomy of possibilities from one common support. Works on Paper depicts a kind of genealogy – the moment of an idea’s conception, its gestation, evolution, and liberation into the world with a life of its own, unbeholden but inextricably related to an artist’s larger practice.
In their varied approaches, the artists included in the exhibition situate working on paper within their practice in as many ways: a place for daily meditative drawing; an unburdened playground to experiment with color and composition; an interstitial space to recover between bouts of exertion; a summation of intricate research and patiently rendered detail; a private sanctuary to work out of sight. In both the sweeping, gestural marks of abstraction and the delicate linework of figuration, the hand of the artist affirms its presence, honoring and at times subverting the academic traditions of drawing and draftsmanship. Soluble inks, gouaches, and watercolors mingle with these exercises in frenzied scratches and gentle gradients, breaking with convention and planar perspective.
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Untitled
2017
Ink and pencil crayon on cotton rag paper
Paper size: 22 x 30” / 55.88 x 76.2cm each, Framed: 25 x 34” / 63.5 x 86.36cm each, Installation: 25 x 71” / 63.5 x 180.3cm
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Senza titolo
2022
Ballpoint pen on paper
70.75 x 51.25” / 180 x 130cm
Installation view: Matthew Ronay in Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Restaurant Drawing (CW Riot)
2024
Pencil and watercolor on thermal paper
12 x 2.25” / 30.5 x 5.7cm
Framed: 14.75 x 7.75” / 37.5 x 19.7cm
Installation view: David Thorpe in Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Installation view: Kevin Beasley in Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Landmark
2024
Graphite, Rives BFK mounted on panel with linen strips
43 x 64.75” / 109.2 x 164.5cm
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Installation view: Sydney Cain in Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Untitled (blues that persist II)
2024
Graphite, oil pastel, charcoal
11 x 14” / 27.9 x 35.6cm
Framed: 14 x 17” / 35.2 x 42.9cm
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
Golden Ratio (Annotated)
2017
ink applied to paper with a brush made from the hair of japanese ama pearl divers. ink applied to glass with an océ arizona 480 XT inkjet printer
71 x 59” / 180 x 150cm
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 9 - February 15, 2025
