With endless talent spread around the city, here are some of our New York City exhibition favorites for summer 2024, featuring Gladstone Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Alexander Gray, David Zwirner, Anat Ebgi, the Whitney, and MoMA.
Hugh Steers
Alexander Gray Associates
With its latest exhibition, “Conjuring Tenderness: Paintings from 1987,” Alexander Gray Associates compiles a group of pieces by the late American painter Hugh Steers. Tracking the year 1987, the year that Steers was diagnosed with HIV, the exhibition is a moving display of the artists’ paintings and works on paper. The show’s name is drawn from a 1994 quote from Steers, who explained, “It’s like conjuring … It’s as if painting it will make it become real. That painting of a man holding another man is conjuring that tenderness, that hope that someone will still care about you and will be there.”
Each piece depicts daily and sometimes banal scenes between figures, engaging in a game of chess in Chess or preparing for a bath in White Room. The show is a portrayal of the artists’ favor towards the domestic scene and mundane activities in a time of both global and personal upheaval and loss.
What we love: Alexander Gray Associates’ latest exhibition on Steers’ work is a continued testament to the artists’ lasting impact with his creations. Through his paintings, Steers’ translated the raw emotions of a period of uncertainty and affliction.
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