Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Ester Partegàs: Serial Cereal. On view from November 7 through December 19 at 25 Greene Street in SoHo, the exhibition is the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery and her first solo show in New York since 2015. Following the artist’s major mid-career survey at Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo in Madrid and at Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, the exhibition will feature a selection of recent graphite drawings and new large-scale sculptures.
For nearly three decades, Partegàs has made work that examines the mundane, overlooked, and mass-produced, using techniques of fragmentation and enlargement to defamiliarize the “infra-ordinary” objects that populate our built environments. Her pencil drawings, monumental sculptures, and installations are at once playful explorations of color, scale, and form and profoundly philosophical meditations on the relationships between the common world of objects and larger social systems. Together, Partegàs’s artworks pose a sequence of questions: How do we inhabit space? What do we build when we build? What invisible forces structure our lives, physically, emotionally, and ideologically?