Vito Schnabel Gallery opens exhibition of works by Jordan Kerwick at the Old Santa Monica Post Office
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Vito Schnabel Gallery opens exhibition of works by Jordan Kerwick at the Old Santa Monica Post Office
Jordan Kerwick, 3 Angels Versus 3 Saviors, 2022, Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 94 1/2 x 177 1/8 inches (240 x 450 cm); © Jordan Kerwick; Photo by Ed Mumford; Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery.



SANTA MONICA, CA.- Vito Schnabel Gallery is presenting Jordan Kerwick: Pink sunsets, cigarettes, 3 regrets and hope to haunt the future at the Old Santa Monica Post Office, in collaboration with Alexander Dellal. The twenty-five new monumentally-scaled paintings on view comprise the first Los Angeles solo exhibition for the critically admired Australian-born Kerwick, who lives and works in the South of France.

On view through June 26, Jordan Kerwick: Pink sunsets, cigarettes, 3 regrets and hope to haunt the future will be the artist’s largest U.S. presentation to date. Replete with outlandish, commanding figures drawn from his imagination, Kerwick’s paintings will find a counterpoint in the classic lines of the Old Post Office’s Streamline Moderne architecture.

The paintings on view have been selected to introduce Los Angeles visitors to Kerwick’s fantastical visual style, expressed in scenes of menacing beasts and predatory animals rendered in an intense, vibrant palette of electric color. Executed in oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, Kerwick’s paintings are characterized by an unselfconscious approach to naive mark-making– a disregard for academic tenets and rules of perspective and structure– and a heavily textured application of paint that boldly flattens form and the perception of pictorial space.

Kerwick’s oeuvre revolves around recurring iconographic elements and identifiable symbols– a striking visual language that deliberately tangles art historical references, ancient iconography, and images inspired by the artist’s domestic life at home with his wife and two young sons. Kerwick’s figurative tableaux offer up playful, absurdist narratives of interactions between a rotating cast of hybrid creatures– double headed cobras, fanged tigers, feather-maned unicorns, snarling wolves and skeletal faces in wide-brimmed hats. His distinctive visual vocabulary is flattened into deceptively complex compositions, where the illusion of depth has been collapsed and compressed, and hard edges give Kerwick’s figures the aspect of cut-outs. The artist claims as a key influence the late work of Henri Matisse, with the revolutionary use of large, flat color-forms – an innovation that resonates in the decorative patterning, contours of line, and solid planes of color that fill Kerwick’s canvases.




Expanding upon and beyond the still-life paintings that comprised some of Kerwick’s first bodies of work, some of the canvases on view in this exhibition feature tiger pelts, upholstered chairs, and ornamental rugs with geometric markings that harken back to those early domestic compositions but emphasize a penchant for the abstract that has come to the fore more recently.

In other paintings such as High Time (2022), a hybrid creature– one-part double-headed hissing serpent, one-part roaring wolverine– hovers before a blazing red monochromatic field accentuated by graffiti-like marks and thick, impastoed strokes. Pushing his compositions further, Kerwick also presents here large-scale exterior scenes that engage complex, perilous battles in imagined landscapes. Some of these feature saturated blocks of blue and green to denote land and sky; others are anchored by an atmospheric ground of pastels that is punctuated by a haze of swiftly sprayed lines. Plants and flowers that once symbolized the domestic bloom and flourish in expansive plein-air works. All the while, the inhabitants of these scenes, beast and human alike, seem to express a thicket of moods and sensations– freedom and danger, foreboding and joy.

Jordan Kerwick (b. 1982, Melbourne, Australia) is a self-taught artist who began his painting career in 2016. Recent solo exhibitions include Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong (2022); Vigo Gallery, London (2022, 2021); Vito Schnabel Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Allouche Benais Gallery, Athens, Greece (2021); Galerie Julie Cadet, Paris, France (2021); Union Gallery, London, England (2021); Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, California (2021, 2019); Piermarq*, Sydney, Australia (2020, 2018); Anna Zorina Gallery, New York (2019); a dual show at Masahiro Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan and Paris, France (2019); TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia (2019); and Delphian Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2018).

This summer, ArtOfficial, Vito Schnabel Gallery’s platform for digital projects, will present a new series of iPad paintings by Kerwick.

Kerwick lives and works in Albi, France.










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