LAURISTON AVERY: DEAF BATS BLIND SHEPHERDS
Solo exhibition
April 5th – June 1st 2019
Curated by Alexandra Meffert
For many years Avery, who lives and works in NY, has focused on producing an incredible body of work that is now coming to light.
See more
His extensive research with secular materials, such as soil, mirror, sticks, fur, and their applications have evolved into a depth of pictorial form that speaks with a uniquely sensual, rhythmic clarity.
The works imply a process of mapping, the cellular body, aerial views of forgotten cities or mysterious constellations subjected to a manic ordering of addition and subtraction.
Though reflective of some of the complex motivations behind Avery’s work, it is the primacy of the expressive form, the mystery of the aesthetic experience, that drives Avery’s investigations and practice.
Lauriston Avery
Lives and works in New York City
CV
Born 1968, Norwich, CT
Lives and works in New York City
Education
- 1990 — BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art
- San Francisco Art Institute
Group & Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2026 — Relics, Show&Tell’s, New York (group show)
2025 — Outer Ones, Dutton Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2024 — Embers, Platform Project Space, New York (group show)
2023 — Come a Little Bit Closer, DC Moore Gallery (group show)
2022 — NADA Art Fair, Dutton Gallery, New York, NY
2022 — Rouges Gallery, MePaintsMe, web
2022 — Balance, Platform Space, New York (group show)
2021 — Full Moon, Platform Space, New York, NY (solo)
2021 — Walk The Line, Platform Space, New York, NY
2020 — Zip City, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA, USA
2019 — Deaf Bats Blind Shepherds, wildpalms, Düsseldorf (solo)
2017 — with Jason Duval, Gallery George, Brooklyn, NY
2011 — To Be Continued, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY
2010 — Invisible Moon, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2009 — Arcade, Brisbane, AUS
2009 — NEXT Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2009 — Sneak Peek, A Taste of the Year to Come, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY
2009 — The Beastly Beauty, group exhibition / benefit, Participant Gallery, New York, NY
2009 — Otherworld: Explorations of the Uncanny, Synthetic Zero, Bronx, NY
2009 — New Works, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2008 — Where We Are and How We Got There, Texas Fire House, Long Island City, Queens
2007 — The Great Unknown, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY
2006 — Bridge Art Fair, Miami
2004 — Americana, Palette, Washington, DC
2004 — Dum Dum Grown-Up Art, Here Art Space, New York, NY
2003 — Waco Show, 49 Ann Street, New York, NY
Exhibition Views
Images by Achim Kukulies