Gary Simmons

Following his celebrated, nationally touring museum exhibition, ‘Public Enemy,’ Gary Simmons will unveil a new series of works this November in his first presentation with our gallery in New York City, ‘Thin Ice.’ Simmons, whose career has spanned over three decades, has received significant recognition for his incisive exploration of race, class and social stereotypes through painting, sculpture, sound and architectural environments. Here, Simmons will debut a striking new wall drawing—his first major site-specific work in New York since his commission for The Drawing Center in 2018. The ambitious wall drawing will engage directly with a new series of paintings and studies on view, works that continue Simmons’ evolving exploration of racially charged cartoon imagery from the 1920s and 30s, while delving deeper into his signature motifs of disappearance, displacement and disorientation.