LGDR Presents ‘From Body to Horizon’ ~ an Exhibition of Queer Artists Depicting the Landscape of Their Own Lives

 

 

 

David Hockney, Double East Yorkshire, 1998 Oil on canvas, in two-parts overall 60 x 152 inches (1524 x3861 cm) © David Hockney, courtesy LGDR

LGDR is pleased to present From Body to Horizon, an exhibition of paintings by queer artists who have developed specific approaches to color through depictions of the interior and exterior landscapes of their own lives. Occupying the first floor of the gallery’s 909 Madison Avenue location, the show will feature works by Etel Adnan, David Hockney, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, and Doron Langberg. Pushing beyond the conventions of naturalism, each of these four artists has developed a signature approach to color as a language—a means for reflecting upon topographies both figural and panoramic, domestic and picturesque, intimate and universal. From Body to Horizon will open on October 20.

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