Jonathan Lasker

Since the 1980s, Jonathan Lasker has used the fundamental elements of abstraction to forge a visual language all his own, suspending contradictions to make paintings that exert both analytical rigor and an undeniably visceral appeal. Lasker’s solo exhibition, his first with Greene Naftali, spans four decades of work from his early career to the present, occasioning new interpretations of his singular brand of abstraction and its impact on generations of artists.

Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog, this focused survey presents a body of work centered on Lasker's use of line, from flat expanses of overpainted scribbles to troweled skeins of thick impasto.

Jonathan Lasker (b. 1948) lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Center, Toronto; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, among others.

His work is held in numerous public collections in Europe and North America, including the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.