Berggruen Gallery</a> is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by California <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/Berggruen-Gallery/"/Artist/Bruce-Cohen/D52E3B1E59B66D10">artist Bruce Cohen</a>. This show marks Cohen's eleventh solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view from January 16, through February 27, 2025. The gallery will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, January 16 from 5:00 to 7:00pm.&nbsp;</p><p>Drawing on influences from Dutch seventeenth-century painting and Surrealism, Bruce Cohen’s oil paintings portray ethereal interior scenes constructed from amalgamations of real and invented spaces. Beginning with an observation of light, Cohen creates small color studies and graphite renderings of light and shadow before transitioning to a collaging process, where memories, observations, and invented details come together to construct dreamlike scenarios. Cohen's tightly rendered compositions take on a cinematic, three-dimensional atmosphere with his usage of a crisp, hard edge style and contrasting saturated colors.&nbsp;</p><p>Cohen's paintings affect the viewer as though they are intimately, perhaps voyeuristically, peering into the interiors of one’s home. Household objects show signs of habitation, but a figure never emerges. One looks for the story behind the empty room where a chair bathes in the shadowed stillness of a setting sun, and the meaning of a bouquet of brightly lit tulips in an interior cloaked by the clouds of a departing storm. Paul Wonner, Cohen’s mentor, described Cohen’s scenes as “a place where some tremendous, mystical event has just taken place.” The longer one spends observing the placement of each object, the quality of light, the traces, and folds in the tablecloth, the more one grasps for its shrouded narrative. Filled with tension and beauty, Cohen's works are quietly harmonic—as meditative as they are mysterious.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Berggruen Gallery</a> is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/Berggruen-Gallery/"/Artist/Peter-Halley/95F3F913655FA625">artist Peter Halley</a>. This show marks Halley’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view January 16 through February 27, 2025. The gallery will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, January 16 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.&nbsp;</p><p>A prominent figure of the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s, Peter Halley uses geometric abstraction to explore the social, technological, and spatial linkages of the modern world. Halley’s paintings are based upon a visual pun suggesting the square as a representation of urban confinement. Taking Malevich’s square, Halley added stucco and bars to transform the modernist square into a prison, creating a two-dimensional icon of the physical isolation produced by technologically determined space and urban architecture. Halley’s fluorescent cells, made up of glowing yellows, pinks, greens, blues, and oranges, are layered with the readymade texture of Roll-a-Tex and arranged purposefully into slightly skewed grids. Halley’s recurring geometric iconography frenetically evokes the glow of today's digital forms, yet astonishingly, it was conceived prior to the advent of the ubiquitous glowing squares currently shaping modern life, such as the computer and telephone screen.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>While Halley’s cells were once connected through his painted conduits, representing the infrastructure of networks, such as phone cords, television cords, building pipes, and roads, he unconsciously began to omit conduits as connective systems became cordless and fully digitized. Grounded in the theories of Foucault and Baudrillard, Halley's work parodies the hermetic spaces of modern existence, while embracing commercially manufactured materials and hyperreal color schemes. Playful and immersive, Halley’s day-glo colors distinguish him as an experimental and masterful chromatist, while his pictorial system which anticipated the burgeoning networks of contemporary life solidified the significance of the social commentary of his work. Inspired by the legacies of Andy Warhol, Piet Mondrian, Philip Guston, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, and even Picasso, Halley draws from a wide range of cultural sources.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Berggruen Gallery</a> is proud to announce Contemporary &amp; Modern Masters, a group exhibition showcasing the work of prominent contemporary artists. The exhibition will be on view from March 6 through April 24, 2025. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, March 6 from 5 to 7 PM.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />