Jesse Mockrin The Venus Effect

48 Walker St | Sep 8 - Oct 21, 2023

Opening Reception: Friday, September 8, 6-8 Pm

James Cohan is pleased to present The Venus Effect, an exhibition of new paintings by Jesse Mockrin, on view at 48 Walker Street from September 8 through October 21, 2023.

Extracting details from European Old Master paintings, Jesse Mockrin recontextualizes cultural narratives and art historical motifs to speak to the present. In The Venus Effect, Mockrin explores historical representations of women with mirrors, ranging from scenes of the toilette to biblical and mythological narratives of reflection. The Venus effect, named for the art historical tradition of images that depict Venus gazing into a mirror, is a perceptual phenomenon wherein the viewer is fooled into believing that Venus is looking at her own reflection. In reality, her line of sight in the mirror connects with the viewer of the painting or the painter who created it. Mockrin sees this as an apt metaphor for these historical paintings themselves, which profess to portray women’s self-obsession, but instead depict a female subject gazing adoringly at the male painter who fashioned her.

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Eamon Ore-Giron Talking

52 Walker St | Sep 8 - Oct 21, 2023

Opening Reception: Friday, September 8, 6-8 Pm

James Cohan is pleased to present Talking  an exhibition of new paintings, textiles, and ceramic murals by Eamon Ore-Giron, on view at 52 Walker Street from September 8 through October 21.

Known for his cross-cultural practice, which includes painting, music, and video, Ore-Giron returns to and expands upon his Talking **** series, a body of work he began in 2017 while living in Guadalajara, Mexico. The paintings, textiles, and ceramic tile works in this exhibition represent an imagined conversation between the artist and deities from Mexico and Peru’s ancestral past. With precisely rendered, vibrantly-colored, semi-abstract references to the gods Quetzalcóatl, Coatlicue, Amaru, and Inti, among others, Ore-Giron explores our ongoing relationship with symbols of culture, how these symbols speak across history, and the ways in which such symbols come to hold ideas around individual and collective identities.

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Christopher Myers Sing to Me of Many Turns

291 Grand St | Sep 21 - Nov 4, 2023

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 21, 5-7 Pm

James Cohan is pleased to present Sing to Me of Many Turns, an exhibition of new work by Christopher Myers, on view at the gallery’s 291 Grand Street location from September 21 through November 4, 2023.

Sing to Me of Many Turns is a retelling of Homer’s Odyssey, presented in an epic panoramic cycle of appliqué textile works, stained glass and sculpture. Myers filters this ancient journey through the lens of contemporary tales of migration that have shaped the Lower East Side neighborhood within which the gallery sits.

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Upcoming Events

Artist Talk

Eamon Ore-Giron in Conversation with Dr. C. Ondine Chavoya

52 Walker | Saturday, September 9 At 2 Pm

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Artist Talk

Jesse Mockrin in Conversation with Adam Harris Levine

48 Walker | Thursday, September 14 At 6 Pm

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Art Fairs

The Armory Show

Javits Center | Booth 203 | Sep 8-10, 2023

For the 2023 edition of The Armory Show, James Cohan will present a selection of new and important by Simon Evans™, Spencer Finch, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Federico Herrero, Yun-Fei Ji, Jesse Mockrin, Lee Mullican, Christopher Myers, Jordan Nassar, Kaloki Nyamai, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Eamon Ore-Giron, Katie Paterson, Naudline Pierre, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Tomaselli, and XU ZHEN®.

James Cohan will also present ambitious sculptural works by Yinka Shonibare CBE and XU ZHEN® in the Platform sector of the fair, curated by Eva Respini.

The fair is open to the public from September 8 to 10, with VIP Previews on September 7.

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Yinka Shonibare CBE at Platform

The Armory Show

Javits Center | Sep 8 - 10, 2023

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XU ZHEN®? at Platform

The Armory Show

Javits Center | Sep 8 - 10, 2023

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