Exhibition
in New York, NY / United States
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- Alex Bierk: Daydreamer, 2025, oil on linen, over panel, 16 x 20 in, 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Bierk’s paintings can be understood as portals to another world. And yet, this other world is the one we inhabit, a world that has become invisibilized through habit. We live in this world but we no longer see it. The paintings allow us access to this other world.
This aspect is most pronounced in Bierk’s paintings of automobiles. In these paintings of cars that, though recognizable as cars, because they are older models — mostly 1970’s or ’80’s sedans — when looking at the paintings, one has the sense that there is something in the work one is unable to grasp. It isn’t nostalgia. Rather, it is as if the painting holds somewhere within it — not on the surface of the artwork — an excess. This excess draws the viewer into the work. Because this supplement remains out of view, the viewer is invited to engage in the act of working through, paralleling the artist’s labor-intensive working through that resulted in the painting. Fredric Jameson describes a similar process in his essay on Neo Rauch, “Reunified German Images”.
Excerpt from the press release by Cynthia Cruz.
Gallery hours Tue-Sat 10 am – 6 pm
Exhibition Duration 08 May – 27 June 2026
Location:
Nathalie Karg Gallery
127 Elizabeth Street
10013 New York, NY
United States
