NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery announced representation of American painter Brook Hsu. The artist joins Gladstone’s roster following her solo presentation of new paintings, The Oklahoma Nature Theater, at Gladstone’s East 64th Street location in November 2024. Gladstone represents Hsu with Kiang Malingue and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler.

Hsu intertwines the mythic with personal narrative, exploring how story telling and representation imbue meaning within her painterly practice. Employing a diverse range of materials, she transforms imagery drawn from art history, film, literature, and her observations into abstract and figurative forms. By creating a host of reworked signs and motifs, her work examines how the language of storytelling both shapes and is shaped by the world around us.

“Brook’s engagement with art history and the inspiration she derives from her own past experiences make her work at once both deeply personal and universally appealing,” said Max Falkenstein, Partner, Gladstone. “Her experimental and rigorous approach to her practice aligns with Gladstone’s history of championing artists whose work pushes boundaries. We look forward to fostering international awareness of her work.”

In addition to her recent solo show at Gladstone, the artist has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021); Manual Arts, Los Angeles (2021); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2019). Hsu has presented in group exhibitions at Oriole, Hamburg (2024); Et al. Gallery, San Francisco (2024); New York (2024);14th Shanghai Biennale (2023); K11 Shanghai (2023); Zürich Biennial, Kunsthalle Zürich (2023); Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2023); Adler Beatty, New York (2022); Derosia Gallery, New York (2022); Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles (2022); kaufmann repetto, New York and Milan (2021); TANK, Shanghai (2020); CLEARING, New York (2020); Jan Kaps, Cologne (2020); Insect Gallery, Los Angeles (2019-2020); Château Shatto, Los Angeles (2019); in lieu, Los Angeles (2019); and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2018-2019). Her work is held in the collections of the X Museum, Beijing; Long Museum, Shanghai; and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.

Hsu (b.1987, Pullman, Washington) lives and works in New York and Wyoming. She received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016.