AL’S OFFICE
GWENN THOMAS
November 11 - December 17, 2021
Gwenn Thomas' work exists in a space between sculpture, painting, photography and architecture. Her object sculptures of awnings, windows, doorways and rooms --exterior and interior architectural spaces -- initiate a back and forth between looking out and looking in. Her most recent series of works are part urban landscape, part abstraction and part found object.
Recent solo shows: Art Projects International, NY; Exile Gallery, Berlin; Mélange; ung-5, Cologne; Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY; Regina Rex, NY; 57W57Arts, NY; Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Recent two-person and group shows: 'DUST: The Plates of the Present', Centre Pompidou, Paris; Gwenn Thomas + Jason Murphy, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio; Social Photography IX, Carriage Trade, NY; ‘Re-visions’, Pinakothek Der Modern, Munich, Germany
Selected collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; Graphic Arts Collection, Firestone Library, Princeton University, NJ; Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, OH; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky; São Schlumberger, Paris, France; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; 'Plates of the Present' Collection, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. A survey of Thomas' work was published by Charta (Milan, Italy).
Project Space
GWENN THOMAS | Sky Shaped Window
September 9 - October 22, 2021
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Sky Shaped Window
A shape on the sidewalk is facing the sky.
The shape is re-activated;
The same shape is re-actualized.
Re-appearance; re-appearing.
Seen again, and again.
Found and then found again.
Replaying the original through the act of mirroring.
Twenty times on the same task.
Form, shape, light.
On a street, in a city, happening upon a sky shaped window.
Gwenn Thomas' work exists in a space between sculpture, painting, photography and architecture. Her object sculptures of awnings, windows, doorways and rooms --exterior and interior architectural spaces -- initiate a back and forth between looking out and looking in. Her most recent series of works are part urban landscape, part abstraction and part found object.
Recent solo shows: Art Projects International, NY; Exile Gallery, Berlin; Mélange; ung-5, Cologne; Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY; Regina Rex, NY; 57W57Arts, NY; Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Recent two-person and group shows: 'DUST: The Plates of the Present', Centre Pompidou, Paris; Gwenn Thomas + Jason Murphy, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio; Social Photography IX, Carriage Trade, NY; ‘Re-visions’, Pinakothek Der Modern, Munich, Germany
Selected collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; Graphic Arts Collection, Firestone Library, Princeton University, NJ; Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, OH; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky; São Schlumberger, Paris, France; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; 'Plates of the Present' Collection, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. A survey of Thomas' work was published by Charta (Milan, Italy).
ARTIST PRESS
Gwenn Thomas, The Silo by Raphael Rubenstein
Main Gallery
GWENN THOMAS | Standard Candles
November 4 – December 17, 2016
RECENT PRESS - "A Breach in the Membrane", HYPERALLERGIC
In the Main Gallery, Gwenn Thomas will present Standard Candles, an exhibition of photographic works exploring the complex spatial relationships of two and three-dimensional planes. Partly inspired by documentary photos of the Vienna house that philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, Thomas’ newest works are laminated photographs of the same window shot at various times of day. Each work is contained in an irregularly shaped structure, creating the illusory effect of actual windows suspended throughout the gallery. The interplay of the photograph’s architectural subject matter with its built-in, 3-dimensional frame challenges not only our shifting perception of the photographic image, but also our lived experience of interior/exterior spaces.
Gwenn Thomas studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, and is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. Her recent solo exhibitions include Gwenn Thomas: Moments of Place at Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, NY; Art Projects International, NY; Exile Gallery, Berlin; and Yvon Lambert, NY. Thomas’ work is held in several prominent museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; São Schlumberger, Paris, France; C.A.M. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, and Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2013, a survey of Thomas' work was published by Charta (Milan, Italy). Coincided with her show at 57W57Arts, Thomas exhibited Awnings, Windows, Rooms at Regina Rex through Dec. 4th, 2016.