JONATHAN LASKER RECENT PAINTINGS GALERIE THOMAS SCHULTE 27 APRIL to 29 JUNE 2019 For Now or Forever (detail), 2017, oil on linen 191 x 254 cm 75 1/4 x 100 in
Galerie Thomas Schulte presents an exhibition with new paintings by the New York-based artist Jonathan Lasker (born 1948 in New Jersey City, NJ, USA). Lasker made use of the art world s conceptual turn in the 1980s, engaging in new possibilities of painting, and so developing the abstract formal idiom that has come to characterize his oeuvre. Resisting the Lyrical Abstraction, Field Painting and Minimalist movements of the 1970s, Lasker saw himself confronted with the challenge of pictorial invention. As an answer to this quest, he devised a self-referential system using a vocabulary of sign-like shapes and colors. The formal language of his paintings is abstract, while the visual means range from simple line drawings to thick paste-like applications of paint. While Lasker mostly works with large-scale formats, he also explores smaller compositions. His small maquettes allow for precise attention to detail, which the artist subsequently reproduces in his large-scale paintings. Thus Lasker turns the organic, subjective and gestural pictorial idiom of painting into an increasingly intellectual process. Jonathan Lasker studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City between 1975 and 1977, and at the California Institute of the Arts in 1977. In 2000 he was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor at The London Institute. Notable solo exhibitions include shows at the Musée d art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne (2015), K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Museo Reina Sofía (2003), the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (1997/98), and the Stedelijk Museum (1998). Selected group exhibitions include the Neue Galerie in Kassel (2011/12), Pinakothek der Moderne (2009), MUDAM, Luxembourg (2008), Centre Georges Pompidou (2007), la Caixa Foundation in Barcelona (2002), Musée d art moderne et contemporain, St. Étienne (1997), Hayward Gallery (1994), Documenta (1992), and MoMA P.S.1 (1992). His work is included in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, The British Library, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Daros Collection, Fond National d Art Contemporain, la Caixa Foundation, LACMA, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, MIT List Center for the Visual Arts, Moderna Museet, Museo Reina Sofía, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, New York Public Library, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Jonathan Lasker lives and works in New York City. Contact Galerie Thomas Schulte Charlottenstraße 24 D-10117 Berlin fon: +49 (0)30 2060 8990 fax: +49 (0)30 2060 89910 mail@galeriethomasschulte.de www.galeriethomasschulte.de Gonzalo Alarcón +49 (173) 66 46 623 gonzalo@galeriethomasschulte.de Eike Dürrfeld +49 (172) 30 89 074 eike@galeriethomasschulte.de Luigi Nerone +49 (172) 30 89 076 luigi@galeriethomasschulte.de Juliane Pönisch juliane@galeriethomasschulte.de 2,3
right Platonic Landscape, 2018 152 x 203 cm 59 3/4 x 80 in following pages For Now or Forever, 2017 191 x 254 cm 75 1/4 x 100 in 4,5 The Remnant of Spirit, 2015 191 x 254 cm 75 1/4 x 100 in
right Ideal Interior (detail), 2018 152 x 203 cm 59 3/4 x 80 in 10,11 following pages Ideal Interior, 2018 152 x 203 cm 59 3/4 x 80 in
top right Yet Untitled, 2018 30 x 41 cm 12 x 16 in bottom right Yet Untitled, 2018 30 x 41 cm 12 x 16 in following pages Lasker, 2019 152 x 203 cm 59 3/4 x 80 in
20,21 The Revisionist s Memory, 2017 191 x 191 cm 75 1/4 x 75 1/4 in
Publisher Galerie Thomas Schulte GmbH Charlottenstraße 24 D-10117 Berlin fon: +49 (0)30 20 60 89 90 www.galeriethomasschulte.de 2019 the artist, the photographers and Galerie Thomas Schulte This dossier was published on the occasion of the upcoming exhibition by Jonathan Lasker (27 April to 29 June 2019).