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An Exhibition of Keith Tyson's Flowers
January 18, 2022, 6:16.24 pm ET

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Photo: Keith Tyson/Flowers

For over thirty years, Award-winning British artist Keith Tyson has used a variety of methods and materials to explore our reality and art’s role in representing it. On 3 February, Hauser & Wirth will present new drawings and paintings from two of Tyson’s extensive and ongoing series, with works spanning both ground floor galleries of the 22nd Street location.

The first room will include Tyson’s latest large-scale flower paintings, made mostly during social isolation. Each canvas is rendered in a different aesthetic style, with Tyson reimagining the floral still life genre through varying scientific, mathematical, and art-historical frameworks. The second room of the exhibition is devoted to the newest iterations of Tyson’s Studio Wall Drawing series, initiated in 1997. Painted on identically sized sheets of paper and displayed together in a grid-like formation, these works occupy the same overall proportions as one of the walls in the artist’s first studio. Shown together, his drawings form a poetic record of passing time, as a group they exist somewhere between a sketchbook, a journal, a poem, and a painting.

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