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Petzel is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Sean Landers, opening Thursday, April 17, 2025. The show marks Landers’ eighth solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view through May 23, 2025, at 520 West 25th Street. Situating the artist’s innermost musings alongside his animal subjects, Landers oscillates between humor and vulnerability, revealing the uncomfortable truths which underpin both the act of artmaking and the human condition.
Here Landers fuses longstanding motifs in his work, which originated as discrete series: his depictions of aspen tree carvings, and his North American animal portraits. These modalities have been a cornerstone of Landers’ practice since he was a graduate student in the Yale University MFA program, creating early sculptures of animals which would become his primary subjects, in a studio space which he blanketed with dense, automatic writings across its walls. Landers has since extended these inscr…
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Petzel is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Sean Landers, opening Thursday, April 17, 2025. The show marks Landers’ eighth solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view through May 23, 2025, at 520 West 25th Street. Situating the artist’s innermost musings alongside his animal subjects, Landers oscillates between humor and vulnerability, revealing the uncomfortable truths which underpin both the act of artmaking and the human condition.
Here Landers fuses longstanding motifs in his work, which originated as discrete series: his depictions of aspen tree carvings, and his North American animal portraits. These modalities have been a cornerstone of Landers’ practice since he was a graduate student in the Yale University MFA program, creating early sculptures of animals which would become his primary subjects, in a studio space which he blanketed with dense, automatic writings across its walls. Landers has since extended these inscr…
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