Nancy Haynes: Compressing Light
23 Nov 2024 - 11 Jan 2025
With Compressing Light, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents its first solo exhibition of Nancy Haynes, featuring a selection of small-scale paintings from her ongoing library series (2017 – ). Intimate linen canvases of slightly varying dimensions that approximate those of a book, the paintings tend towards the monochromatic, emptied out, yet subtly geometric. In their subtlety, however, they speak volumes.
Titled after writers of influence and importance to Haynes, the paintings in the series unfold like a personal library. We find the names of figures whose work spans generations, disciplines, and genres: among them, Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Svetlana Alexievich, and Zora Neale Hurston, to name a few
Titled after writers of influence and importance to Haynes, the paintings in the series unfold like a personal library. We find the names of figures whose work spans generations, disciplines, and genres: among them, Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Svetlana Alexievich, and Zora Neale Hurston, to name a few