MARUANI MERCIER

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Recent Paintings

Jonathan LASKER17 January 2018 – 24 February 2018

Avenue Louise 430, Brussels

MARUANI MERCIER has the pleasure to announce Jonathan LASKER's new exhibition, Recent Paintings.

LASKER (1984, New Jersey) is an American abstract painter best known for his works incorporatingbiomorphic shapes, geometric patterns, and gestural graffiti marks within a shared pictorial space.

Working within the traditions of artists such as Philip Guston and Robert Ryman, LASKER focusses his effortson reimagining pictorial ideas within the material constraints of painting.“My goal is to bring the viewer to thethreshold of narrativity without crossing over,” the artist explains, “to bring the viewer to the state of purepictorially. Therefore I decided to use unrecognizable abstract forms as surrogate figures. This would conveythe pure condition of being a thing in space.” With strong compositional structure and intelligent colorchoices, this new series of paintings hum with energy.

Jonathan LASKERThe Rules of Personal Attachment, 2017

oil on linen, 152 x 203 cm

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LASKER's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles Museum ofContemporary Art, California; The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica; Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona; theWhitney Museum of American Art, New York; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; andModerna Museet, Stockholm, among others.

He lives and works in New York City, NY.

Jonathan LASKER, Recent Paintings, opens on January 17th, and runs until February 24rd, 2018

at MARUANI MERCIER, Avenue Louise 430, in Brussels.

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Jonathan LASKERMental Strength, 2017

oil on linen, 152 x 203 cm