Petzel Gallery

LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse | On view until July 17, 2026
Contemporary art gallery located in New York in Chelsea.

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Drawing on the visual language of early American gravestones—one of the few accepted forms of artistic expression within Puritan society—Seth Price presents the phrase "are you ready to change your life" in reversed, anagrammatic lettering that resists immediate legibility. Rendered on honeycomb extruded polypropylene, a lightweight material commonly used for public signage, the work juxtaposes the permanence of memorialization with the transience of contemporary messaging. Its unstable text echoes the nonstandard spellings of historical gravestone inscriptions, suggesting that language and meaning are always in flux. The work is now on view in “Louche: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse,” until July 17, 2026.

LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse
📍520 W 25th Street
🗓 On view until July 17, 2026

Artwork: Seth Price, “Are You Read,” 2026, Ink, enamel, acrylic, and mylar collage on extruded polypropylene, mounted to aluminum, 66 x 42 x 1 in, 167.6 x 106.7 x 2.5 cm.

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Nearly a decade ago, Petzel presented “We Need to Talk: Artists and the Public Respond to the Present Conditions in America,” an exhibition shaped by political rupture and the uneasy sense that what followed might still be reversible. Opening in January 2017, it captured a moment of collective alarm – when a shifting national and global order still felt reversible.

“LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse” emerges from the long shadow of that moment. What once registered as fear has hardened into lived reality. The years since – marked by political upheaval, ecological crisis, pandemic, and a violent challenge to democratic continuity – have not only confirmed earlier anxieties but exceeded them. If the earlier exhibition was driven by urgency, this one settles into exhausted lucidity.

LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse
📍520 W 25th Street
️🗓 On view until July 17, 2026

Photos: Installation view, “LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse,” Petzel, 2026. Photos by Meg Symanow.

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Artist Raphaela Vogel investigates heraldic symbols whose meanings become fixed through repetition and association with power, and seeks to disrupt these orders through painting, detaching images from predetermined meaning.

In her new work, “Boudicca’s night table,” 2026, Vogel draws on the ideas of philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, who described three types of signs: symbol, icon, and index. The work moves between these three poles—from fixed symbolic meaning to recognizable imagery, to the trace-like marks of gesture and material action. These relationships can be represented as a triangle, which becomes a conceptual figure of painting itself: a form in which meaning is not fixed but kept in motion. Working on leather further emphasizes this process, as the material itself carries marks, resistance, and history. The work is now on view in “Louche: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse,” until July 17, 2026.

LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse
📍520 W 25th Street
🗓 On view until July 17, 2026

Artwork: Raphaela Vogel, “Boudicca’s night table,” 2026, Oil on leather with metal rods, 105 1/2 x 81 x 9 in, 268 x 205.7 x 22.9 cm.

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LAST DAY TO VISIT PETZEL’S BOOTH A3 AT ART BASEL

Ahead of his solo exhibition at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, opening on August 9, 2026, Petzel presents “After Every War,” 2026, by Ross Bleckner in which dense clusters of flowers dematerialize into fields of blurred color and motion. Suspended between recognition and dissolution, the works embody Bleckner’s ongoing meditation on beauty, transience, and the limits of perception.

Art Basel 2026
📍Booth A3, Hall 2.0
Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
️🗓 VIP Days: June 16–17, 2026
🗓 Public Days: June 18–21, 2026

Artwork: Ross Bleckner, “After Every War,” 2026, Oil on linen, 60 x 72 in, 152.4 x 182.9 cm.

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CLOSING TODAY

Seth Price’s exhibition is closing today June 20, 2026, at 520 W 25th Street. The exhibition will be on view from 10am–6pm.

Seth Price
📍520 W 25th Street
🗓 On view until June 20, 2026

Photos: Installation view, Seth Price, Petzel, 2026.
Photos by Ron Amstutz.

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Derek Fordjour’s painting "Veranda," 2026, is punctuated by familiar symbols of affluence, including a cooling fridge stocked with ice cream, boats in the distance, a picturesque waterfront view, and flowers arranged on the table. Drawing from many travel experiences with his wife in which they were coded as laborers rather than vacationers, he situates two figures in matching uniforms, isolated and alone sharing a troublesome predicament. Fordjour offers a personal examination of the complex and intertwined relationships between luxury, labor and the Black experience. Also, by incorporating repurposed desserts, Fordjour pays tribute to one of his artistic inspirations, Wayne Thiebaud drawing from his painting "Confections," 1962, in collection.

Artwork: Derek Fordjour, “Veranda,” 2026, Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil pastel, and foil on newspaper mounted on canvas, Unframed: 65 x 85 in, 165.1 x 215.9 cm, Framed: 67 x 87 in, 170.2 x 221 cm.

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Nicola Tyson’s painting “Twins,” 2025, presents paired figures with loosely rendered faces carrying the wide-set, blank-eyed affect characteristic of Tyson’s “psycho-figuration.” In this work, Tyson adopts a looser approach, painting directly onto the canvas with a deliberate, unpremeditated nonchalance—a humor and confidence that speaks to the depth of her engagement with the medium, while registering a deep existential unease about the contemporary context for the human figure, its representation, and its troubled relationship to its environment. The result is at once playful and unsettling, resisting easy categorization while returning the viewer to the constructions of their own unconscious. The work is presented following Tyson’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, “NEED,” 2026, her first drawing exhibition since her 2017 retrospective at The Drawing Room, London. The artwork is now on view at Petzel’s Booth A3 at Art Basel.

Art Basel 2026
📍Booth A3, Hall 2.0
Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
️🗓 VIP Days: June 16–17, 2026
️🗓 Public Days: June 18–21, 2026

Artwork: Nicola Tyson, “Twins,” 2025, Signed, titled and dated verso, Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 58 in, 198.1 x 147.3 cm.

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Visit us at Booth A3 during the 2026 edition of Art Basel. Petzel is pleased to present works by artists integral to the program, with established histories to the gallery, and new to its roster. Artists on view will include Ross Bleckner, Cosima von Bonin, Charline von Heyl, Isabella Ducrot, Derek Fordjour, Sean Landers, Maria Lassnig, Jorge Pardo, Joyce Pensato, Seth Price, Pieter Schoolwerth, Tschabalala Self, Emily Mae Smith, Nicola Tyson, and Emma Webster.

Highlights include both new and significant works by Ross Bleckner, Cosima von Bonin, Derek Fordjour, Sean Landers, Pieter Schoolwerth, Tschabalala Self, Emily Mae Smith, and Emma Webster, in addition to historical works by Charline von Heyl, Maria Lassnig, and Joyce Pensato.

Art Basel 2026
📍Booth A3, Hall 2.0
Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Basel, Switzerland🗓 VIP Days: June 16–17, 2026
🗓 Public Days: June 18–21, 2026

Photos: Installation view of Petzel, Booth A3, Art Basel, 2026.

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Artist Joyce Pensato’s painting “The Last Eyes,” will be on view at Petzel’s Booth A3 during Art Basel. Committed throughout her career to what she described as the baleful transmutation of American cartoon culture, Pensato deployed her fast, assured, gestural hand to shed light on the arguable darkness lurking within familiar Pop iconography. In “The Last Eyes,” she reduces a recognizable cartoon form to its barest gesture: six looping ovoids rendered in raw black enamel, smeared and dripping across a white ground. Combining the historical strategies of gestural abstraction with the iconic force of Pop, the work distills her practice to its essential power: image as psychic residue.

Art Basel 2026
📍Booth A3, Hall 2.0
Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
🗓 VIP Days: June 16–17, 2026
🗓 Public Days: June 18–21, 2026

Artwork: Joyce Pensato, “The Last Eyes,” 2000, Signed, titled and dated verso, Enamel on linen, 76.77 x 51.18 in, 195 x 130 cm. © Joyce Pensato Foundation.

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CLOSING THIS WEEK

Seth Price’s new series at Petzel is on view through June 20, 2026.

Seth Price
📍520 W 25th Street
🗓 On view until June 20, 2026

Artwork: Seth Price, “Untitled,” 2026, Powdered steel in acrylic polymer, enamel paint, inkjet on paper, cold-rolled steel, wood, 18 x 18 x 1 in, 45.7 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm. Photos by Ron Amstutz.

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Join us at Booth A3 during the 2026 edition of Art Basel.

Jorge Pardo employs a broad palette of vibrant colors, eclectic patterns, and natural and industrial materials. Pardo’s works range from murals to home furnishings to collages to larger-than-life fabrications. He often transforms familiar objects into artworks with multiple meanings and purposes, such as “Untitled” 2020, serving as a source of illumination and as a freestanding sculpture.

Artwork: Jorge Pardo,“Untitled,” 2020, Acrylic on engraved MDF, birch plywood, veneer, LED Fixtures, 75 x 94 1/2 x 2 3/4 in, 190.5 x 240 x 7 cm.

Art Basel 2026
📍Booth A3, Hall 2.0
Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
🗓 VIP Days: June 16–17, 2026
🗓 Public Days: June 18–21, 2026

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OPENING TOMORROW

To be “louche” is to drift in moral ambiguity, at the edge of clarity and propriety. Humor curdles into menace and seduction gives way to fatigue. The exhibition does not try to awaken its viewers, but implicates them. We recognize the stakes, yet persist in forms of attention increasingly inadequate to them.

Louche offers no exit. It lingers around the limits of imagination—what we failed to foresee, what we have come to accept, and what it might mean to remain awake, if waking is still possible.

LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse
📍520 W 25th Street
🗓 Opening June 11, 2026

Artworks: Nicola Tyson, “Handholding,” 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 77 1/4 x 66 in, 196.2 x 167.6 cm; Simon Denny, “Output 952,” 2026, Plotted acrylic and ink jet on canvas, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 1 5/8 in, 120 x 120 x 4 cm; Nikita Gale, “LOST ARENA 3,” 2025, Velvet, river sand, cast iron powder, travertine, aluminum, 41 x 31 x 5 in, 104.1 x 78.7 x 12.7 cm; Pieter Schoolwerth, “Silent Pilot,” 2026, Oil, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 71 x 87 in, 180.3 x 221 cm.

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Currently on view at RPLH in Cologne is an exhibition of Malcolm Morley’s work that spans several decades from one of the most restless and unclassifiable artists of his generation. From the 1960s, Morley provoked New York’s art scene with deadpan paintings of banal cruise liners taken from travel brochures, to the late 1990s, when critic Katy Siegel, writing in Artforum, likened him to “a rock icon who neglected to die young or burn out”. The exhibition is on view until September 30, 2026.

Malcolm Morley
📍RPLH, Cologne, Germany
🗓 On view until September 30, 2026

Photos: Installation view, Malcolm Morley, Robert Perthel Strasse, Cologne, 2026. Photos by Simon Vogel.

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CLOSING TOMORROW

Emma Webster’s “Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone” closes tomorrow June 6, 2026, at 520 W 25th Street. You can see the exhibition from 10am–6pm.

Photos: Installation view, Emma Webster, “Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone,” Petzel, 2026. Photos by Thomas Barratt.

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Seth Price’s new series at Petzel is on view through June 20, 2026.

Seth Price
📍520 W 25th Street
🗓 On view until June 20, 2026

Artwork: Seth Price, “Opening the Studio to the Outside,” 2026, Iron powder, acrylic polymers, and UV print on aluminum composite, 59.5 x 59.5 x 1.125 in, 151.1 x 151.1 x 2.9 cm. Photos by Ron Amstutz.

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In a thoughtful conversation for “The Brooklyn Rail,” Pieter Schoolwerth and Molly Warnock explore how art can counter the effects of algorithmic culture. Schoolwerth argues that slow looking, curiosity, and formal experimentation offer an alternative to digital fatigue and ideological silos, making art a space for connection and imagination.

Read more: https://t.co/51GKDRJaak

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CLOSING THIS WEEK

Emma Webster's approach to landscape painting is distinctively contemporary. Until realism prevailed in the 1800s with the Hudson River School movement and plein air painting, landscape and still life was largely composite; artists created imagined, idealized scenes by assembling spectacular natural elements into one view. Webster draws on both classical traditions and reinvents the genre through the introduction of digital tools. Her exhibition “Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone” is on view until June 6, 2026, at 520 W 25th Street.

Emma Webster: Rues and Leaves Them Alone
📍520 W 25th Street
🗓 On view until June 6, 2026

Artwork: Emma Webster, “Onward!,” 2026, Signed, titled and dated verso, Oil on linen, 72 x 96 in, 182.8 x 243.8 cm.

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Nearly a decade ago, Petzel presented “We Need to Talk: Artists and the Public Respond to the Present Conditions in America,” an exhibition shaped by political rupture and the uneasy sense that what followed might still be reversible. Opening in January 2017, it captured a moment of collective alarm – when a shifting national and global order still felt reversible.

“LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse” emerges from the long shadow of that moment. What once registered as fear has hardened into lived reality. The years since – marked by political upheaval, ecological crisis, pandemic, and a violent challenge to democratic continuity – have not only confirmed earlier anxieties but exceeded them. If the earlier exhibition was driven by urgency, this one settles into exhausted lucidity.

This exhibition is not about resistance, nor critique in any familiar sense, but staged indifference: a farce in which cultural production continues unabated as the conditions that sustain it erode. The exhibition performs a deliberate slackening of critical posture — a surrender to spectacle, excess, and dissonance that mirrors a broader social anesthesia. We feared too for our little ivory towers, built over a decade of global expansion in a relatively stable art world. How foolish we were.

To be “louche” is to drift in moral ambiguity, at the edge of clarity and propriety. Humor curdles into menace and seduction gives way to fatigue. The exhibition does not try to awaken its viewers, but implicates them. We recognize the stakes, yet persist in forms of attention increasingly inadequate to them.

“Louche” offers no exit. It lingers around the limits of imagination—what we failed to foresee, what we have come to accept, and what it might mean to remain awake, if waking is still possible.

LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse
📍520 W 25th Street
🗓 Opening June 11, 2026

Artwork: Cosima von Bonin, “El Profesor,” 2025, Velvet, cotton, and fleece, 59 7/8 x 82 5/8 in, 152.1 x 209.9 cm.

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Drawing on her early background in theatre design, Emma Webster creates physical maquettes which she then renders digitally and choreographs with illusionistic effects of light, texture, and scale. Her paintings capture the distorted, otherworldly scenes with abstract, painterly gestures. The result is reproduction of natural form that blurs the lines between composite and observational painting, physical and digital reality.

Emma Webster: Rues and Leaves Them Alone
📍520 W 25th Street
🗓 On view until June 6, 2026

Artwork: Emma Webster, “Wing Whistle, 2026, Oil on linen, 84 x 120 in., 213.3 x 304.8 cm. Photo 1: Marten Elder; Photo 2: Detail, Photo by Marten Elder.

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