WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Paula Cooper Gallery announces a month-long winter pop-up exhibition in West Palm Beach, Florida. The presentation takes place in a dedicated exhibition space housed in a converted industrial building from the 1920s, and features works on paper, painting, sculpture, and assemblage by Cynthia Hawkins, Sol LeWitt, Eric N. Mack, and Alan Shields. Coming from three distinct generations, the artists are united by their use of vibrant color, diverse materials, and abstract forms. The pop-up follows the gallery’s three-year residency on Worth Avenue, where sixteen exhibitions were presented between December 2020 and April 2023.
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Using fabric and other found objects, Eric N. Mack (b. 1987) creates richly textured compositions that collapse the boundaries between fine art, fashion, and architecture. The exhibition includes examples of both suspended and wall-based works that repurpose overlooked materials gathered from Italian couturiers, international marketplaces, and the streets of Harlem where Mack lives. The mobile-like Satin and fluid evening dresses (2023) is a structure hanging from the ceiling propelled by the idea of a classical fountain, while Star spangled banner for Jasper Jonez (2024) is a painting in found fabric modelled after the American flag. Mack has been represented by Paula Cooper Gallery since 2021 and his first one-person exhibition with the gallery took place in New York in the fall of 2023.
Since 1972, Cynthia Hawkins (b. 1950) has consistently painted abstractly and in series, exploring diverse literary, philosophical, and scientific influences within a delineated structure. Hawkins’s paintings utilize a highly developed vocabulary of symbols and signs to investigate color, movement, and light, and her work is dense with richly evocative meaning. In both her paintings and works on paper, Hawkins uses geometry and the push-pull technique developed by Hans Hofmann to evoke space through expertly wielded color. Hawkins has been represented by the gallery since 2023 and her first one-person exhibition will take place in New York in April 2025, presenting new paintings from her ongoing series Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D.
The highly decorative and multicolored work of Alan Shields (1944–2005) sings with vibrant energy, and shines with glitter and beads. A hanging work, Singing Toy Car (1975), is formed of cotton belting draped across a horizontal pole and stained in misty gradations of green, red, yellow and blue. The latticed textile and stitched threads are delicate and buoyant, summoning a reciprocal dance between object and viewer. Several works made of canvas stretched over thin metal rods sprout from the ground like tall reeds. Painted in vibrant horizontal or diagonal bands, stacked circles, or speckled dots, the works punctuate space, inflecting the surrounding environment. Shields was represented by the gallery from 1968 to 1991, and his work maintains a lively dialogue with gallery artists.
Known primarily for his wall drawings as well as his many variations of open cube structures, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) created important works on paper throughout his career. Beginning in the 1980s, the artist expanded the visual vocabulary of his practice—which had been defined by basic geometric forms and seriality—to include multifaceted shapes, increased spatial depth, isometric projection, and tonally complex colors. By the 1990s LeWitt moved to even more open-ended methods of composition, employing gouache, an opaque water-based paint, to produce free-flowing abstract works in contrasting hues. Vibrant works in gouache on paper will demonstrate LeWitt’s masterful use of color and tone through the medium of gouache. LeWitt’s work has consistently been shown at Paula Cooper Gallery since the inaugural exhibition in 1968.
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