Vitale, Andre, Vega

Presenting works by Marianne Vitale, Carl Andre, and Alan Vega, the exhibition stages a dialogue across Minimalism, punk, and brute material practice. Each artist advances a distinct approach to industrial form, yet all share a concern with reduction, rawness, and the charge of the everyday object.

Marianne Vitale

Vitale’s sculptures are produced from dismantled locomotive trains. The steel “skins” of train car shells are welded into foot-square cubes, while interior components are recontextualized as monumental forms. Skull, 2025 and Junk, 2025—casing elements once designed to house a crankshaft—exemplify her transformation of engineered utility. The works resonate with Minimalist precedent while insistently foregrounding processes of rupture, violence, and reclamation.

Carl Andre

Andre’s rigorously pared-down floor works anchor the exhibition in the language of Minimalism. Composed of simple, repeatable units, his works demonstrate how sculptural meaning can emerge from material logic alone. Their presence within this context highlights the structural affinities and divergences with Vitale’s industrial cubes.

Alan Vega

Renowned for his role in the proto-punk band "Suicide," Vega's assemblage light sculptures are presented on the gallery’s walls. Constructed from salvaged materials and electrically charged interventions, these works extend the spirit of punk into a visual idiom that is improvisational yet formally incisive.

In conjunction with the exhibition, The Journal Gallery will host an afternoon salon, "16 heures," with writers Alex Auder, Roddy Bottum, The Whitney Review, Michael Portnoy and Sinziana Ravini, Tuesday through Friday at 4pm .

Marianne Vitale was born in East Rockaway, New York in 1973. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, New York.

Vitale’s recent solo and group exhibitions include "Take This Feeling of Doom and Do a Little Dance With It" at Picture Room in New York, New York (2024); "Human Nature" at The Journal Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2024); "Menemsha" at Galeria Doris Ghetta in Ortesia, Italy (2024); Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2022); "Terrena Spirituale" at Galeria Doris Ghetta in Ortesia, Italy (2022); ”Bottles and Bridges: Advances in Collective Obliteration" at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Cecilia Alemani in Venice, Italy (2022); "The World, The Flesh and the Devil" at Couvent des Cordeliers in Savenay, France (2020); Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2020); "Double Vision" at the Elaine de Kooning House in East Hampton, New York (2019); “Untitled” at Karma in New York, New York (2015); “Oh Don't Ask Why” at the Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin, Germany (2105); “No Man's Land” at the Contemporary Arts Foundation in Miami, Florida (2015); “Six Doors” at the Foundation for Contemporary Art in New York, New York (2015); “Teeth Gnash Tennessee” at Invisible Exports in New York, New York (2015); “Something old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue” at Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy (2015); “Ann Craven - Marianne Vitale, Paris” at Ceysson Gallery in Paris, France (2014); “Combustion” at Saks Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland (2014); “The Last Brucennial” in New York, New York (2014); “Too Much Satan For One Hand” at Ibid Projects in London, United Kingdom (2011); “How Soon Now” at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida (2010); and the “Whitney Biennial 2010” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, New York (2010).

Marianne Vitale lives and works in New York, New York.

Carl Andre was born in 1935 in Quincy, Massachusetts. Andre graduate from Phillips Academy in 1953 in Andover, Massachusetts.

Andre’s work has been guided by a commitment to pure matter in lucid geometric arrangements. He produces sculptures of rigorous simplicity by arranging unmanipulated found elements—such as bricks, lumber, and metal or stone tiles—into forms determined by the units of matter themselves and their surrounding spaces. Andre’s work has been shown extensively in important one-person and retrospective exhibitions, most recently at Dia:Beacon in New York (2014), which traveled to the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His work can be found in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Carl Andre died in New York, New York in 2024.

Alan Vega was born Alan Bermowitz in Brooklyn, New York in 1938. is one of the pioneers of minimalist electronic rock, co-founder with Martin Rev of the legendary band "Suicide" in the early 1970s.

Vega was a visual artist active on the New York art scene from the late 1960s. He graduated from Brooklyn College, where he studied astrophysics and art under the guidance of Kurt Seligman and Ad Reinhardt.

His work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions: at Jeffrey Deitch (in 2002 and 2017), at MoMA PS1, NY, at Magasin in Grenoble, and at Fresnoy in Tourcoing (2014); at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon (2009); at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1985); at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery (1985), and at OK Harris Gallery in New York (in 1971 and 1978).

He has also participated in group exhibitions at Mumok in Vienna (2018), at the Lambert Collection in Avignon (2017), at the Barbican Center, London (2015), at Maison Rouge, Paris (2012 and 2014), at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2011), and at the Busan Biennale in South Korea (2008).

Alan Vega died in New York, New York in 2016.