Intimate Infinite: Imagine A JourneyExhibitions
Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey
Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey invites visitors to become immersed in the work of artists who collapse the vastness of infinity into tangible dimensions through obsessive detail and concentrated mark making, the distilled intensity of small scale, or the tactile materiality of their surfaces. In its exploration of the sublime, the exhibition unfolds over all three levels of the gallery’s New York City landmark building, and includes nearly one hundred artworks.
In his first exhibition organized for the gallery, co-founder Brett Gorvy’s selection of paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures was inspired by William Blake’s poem Auguries of Innocence: “To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour.” Beginning on the gallery’s ground floor, viewers will first encounter a wall of Robert Ryman paintings of different scales and materiality, in direct conversation with three paintings by Cy Twombly, which include the stunning blackboard work Untitled (1967). The second floor focuses on artworks that demonstrate distinctive sensuality and sensitivity to material, featuring masterworks by the most influential female artists of the 1960s and 1970s in juxtaposition with those of their male peers. Highlights include the bulging and stitched wall relief of Lee Bontecou’s Untitled (1959), made from leather, canvas, welded steel rods, and wire, displayed in visual contrast to the inward movement of Jasper Johns’s White Target (1958). The third floor of Intimate Infinite is a meditation upon fantastical universes, including surreal landscapes by Yves Tanguy, such as Lumen (1949), and René Magritte’s La condition humaine (1935). These works are positioned alongside exquisitely executed box assemblages by Joseph Cornell and Lucas Samaras. This room will also feature seven butterfly works by Jean Dubuffet—the first time in New York that such a significant assembly of these rare and intricate collages will be shown together.
Selected Works
Video
Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey
September 21, 2018
Publications
Selected Press
Artforum | "Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey"
October 30, 2018
Quiet Lunch | INTIMATE INFINITE: Imagine a Journey
October 21, 2018
New York Times | Four Knockout Group Shows to See Now
October 19, 2018
The Art Newspaper | Three exhibitions to see in New York
October 11, 2018
The Brooklyn Rail | Intimate Infinite: Imagine a Journey
October 3, 2018
Wall Street International | Intimate Infinite
September 19, 2018
Art Observed | New York – "Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey” Curated by Brett Gorvy at Lévy Gorvy Through October 24th, 2018
September 14, 2018
Robb Report | This Blue-Chip Mix of 20th-Century Art Unfolds Like a William Blake Poem
September 13, 2018
ArtDaily | Lévy Gorvy opens first exhibition organized by co-founder Brett Gorvy
September 12, 2018
Artforum | Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey
September 12, 2018
Galerie | Editors’ Picks: 7 Great Art and Design Events This Week
September 4, 2018
GalleriesNow | Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey at Lévy Gorvy
September 4, 2018
Widewalls | An Exploration of the Sublime by 27 Artists at Lévy Gorvy
August 30, 2018
Artnet | From Joan Mitchell’s Early Works to Daniel Arsham’s Dystopian Future: 45 Can’t-Miss Gallery Shows in New York This September
August 30, 2018
Blouin Artinfo | Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey at Lévy Gorvy, New York
August 29, 2018