Karla Black

Rodder is pleased to present Karla Black, the artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery and her first exhibition in New York since 2016.

For this exhibition, Black transforms the gallery into a Rococo interior, painting directly on large mirrors with Baroque silhouettes, their scale and contours recalling palatial splendour, the dream of a bygone era marked with overexcess. Employing her characteristic palette of pale hues and ephemeral materials, the artist permeates the room with work marked by the unconscious.

Using a combination of traditional materials such as plaster, chalk, paper, and paint, as well as everyday substances including make-up, toilet paper, feather dusters, and bath bombs, Black’s work privileges process, scale, and physical encounter. Often made on-site, her work transitions between the decorative and the spontaneous, the immaterial and the material. Black continues to redefine and extend the definition of contemporary sculpture.