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Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker creates abstract paintings with a distinctive formal vocabulary, challenging the medium's status quo through unique figure-ground relationships and varied mark-making processes.
Since the late 1970s, Jonathan Lasker has cultivated a distinctive formal vocabulary in abstract painting. His work, characterized by structural grids, graphic scribbles, and thick impasto, re-establishes the possibilities of the medium after Minimalism and Conceptualism, mounting a challenge to its traditional status quo.
Lasker's unique system is built on a dialectical figure-ground relationship, employing doubled and transposed forms to create compositions of distinct, clearly defined elements. These images invite viewers into an active, interpretive engagement, where the abstract figures and their relationships become a mirror for self-experience.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Lasker lives and works in New York. After an early career in music, he studied at the School of Visual Arts and CalArts, and his work has been the subject of major retrospectives at institutions like the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
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- 2026-05-13
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- New York, NY
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