March 10, 2023
Ouattara Watts receives the 2023 Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Inaugurated in 2013, the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award of $10,000 recognizes outstanding achievement in the visual arts.
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Ouattara Watts

Thaddeus Mosley, Circular Fable, 2021, walnut in 3 parts, 48½ × 17¼ × 16½ inches; 121.92 × 50.8 × 2.54 cm
February 27, 2023
A Conversation between Thaddeus Mosley & Alexis Lowry
at Karma, New York
Saturday, March 4th, 4–5pm
22 East 2nd Street
New York, NY 10003
On the occasion of the exhibition Thaddeus Mosley, Recent Sculpture, Karma is pleased to present a conversation between the artist Thaddeus Mosley and curator at Dia Art Foundation, Alexis Lowry.
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Thaddeus Mosley

Illusory Progression, 2020, and Rhizogenic Rhythm, 2020, Installation view, Schwartz Common, Harvard Business School. Photo courtesy Steve Briggs.
February 23, 2023
Thaddeus Mosley in Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art
webinar hosted by the Harvard Business School
Thursday March 2, 2023 at 12 pm EST via Zoom
Featuring artists Thaddeus Mosley, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, and Carrie Mae Weems in conversation with Professor Henry McGee, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; and leading art collector and museum trustee Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983)
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Thaddeus Mosley
February 22, 2023
Tabboo! Cityscapes Book Launch
at Karma Bookstore, New York
Friday, February 24, 2023, 6–8pm
Karma Bookstore
136 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
We are pleased to invite you to a book launch in collaboration with Gordon Robichaux to celebrate Tabboo! Cityscapes, Friday, February 24, 2023, 6–8pm at Karma Bookstore, New York.
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Tabboo!

Mungo Thomson, Volume 2. Animal Locomotion, 2015–22, 4K video with sound (stills)
February 14, 2023
A Conversation on Mungo Thomson, Time Life
at Karma, Los Angeles
Saturday, February 25, 3–5pm
7351 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90046
On the occasion of the exhibition Mungo Thomson, Time Life, Karma is pleased to present a conversation with the artists Mungo Thomson and Allen Ruppersberg, moderated by Robert Soros Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum, Aram Moshayedi.
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Mungo Thomson

Peter Halley, End of the Road, 2022, acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, Flashe, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas, 77 × 86 × 4 inches; 195.58 × 218.44 × 10.16 cm
February 14, 2023
A Conversation on Peter Halley
at Karma, Los Angeles
Saturday, February 18, 6pm
7351 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90046
On the occasion of the exhibition Peter Halley, Karma is pleased to present a conversation moderated by curator Tim Griffin along with the artists Peter Halley and Tala Madani.
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Peter Halley
February 14, 2023
Mungo Thomson Book Launch and Exhibition
at Karma Bookstore, Los Angeles
Saturday, February 18, 2023, 1–4pm
Karma Bookstore
7351 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90046
We are pleased to invite you to a book launch in collaboration with JRP|Editions and galerie frank elbaz to celebrate the two publications Time Life and MUNGO THOMSON, Saturday, February 18, 2022, 1–4pm at Karma Bookstore, Los Angeles.
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Mungo Thomson

Marley Freeman, ones former other one, 2021, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, anonymous gift, © Marley Freeman, courtesy the artist and Karma
February 14, 2023
Marley Freeman Artist Talk
at Resnick Pavilion, LACMA
Monday February 13, 2023, 7:30–9pm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Join artist Marley Freeman and curator Jennie King for an artist-led walkthrough of ‘New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions’ at LACMA. The event will also include walkthroughs with Tanya Aguiñiga, Channing Hansen, Naotaka Hiro, and Alex Hubbard.
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Marley Freeman
February 10, 2023
Keith Mayerson in Conversation
at Rizzoli Bookstore, New York
Friday February 10, 2023 at 6 pm
Rizzoli Bookstore
1133 Broadway
New York, NY 10010
Join artist’s Thomas Woodruff and Keith Mayerson to discuss Woodruff’s new book Francis Rothbart!: The Tale of a Fastidious Feral and Mayerson ‘s latest publication My American Dream.
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Keith Mayerson

Edward Hopper, Approaching a City, 1946. Oil on canvas, 27 1⁄18 × 36 in. (68.9 × 91.4 cm). The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; acquired 1947. ©️ 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
January 27, 2023
Jane Dickson in Approaching a City: Hopper’s Visions of Urban Space
at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Wednesday February 15, 2023 at 7 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
New York, NY 10014
Inspired by Edward Hopper’s New York, this program brings together an interdisciplinary group of artists and writers to reflect on the histories and aesthetics of the urban spaces Hopper engaged with in his work, from the intimacies of private apartments to the public fantasies of the street to the flux of the city itself. Moderated by Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator, the conversation features speakers David Hartt, Kirsty Bell, Jane Dickson, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
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Jane Dickson

Portrait photo by Jason Schmidt
January 24, 2023
Thaddeus Mosley receives the 2023 United States Artists Fellowship in Visual Art
USA Fellowships are annual $50,000 unrestricted awards recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States, in all disciplines, at every stage of their career. Each year, individual artists and collaboratives are anonymously nominated to apply by a geographically diverse and rotating group of artists, scholars, critics, producers, curators, and other arts professionals. Applications are reviewed by discipline-specific panels who select the finalists, which are then approved by our Board of Trustees.
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Thaddeus Mosley

Alvaro Barrington, Gated Community 1, NYC 2023, 2023, steel shutter, 66⅛ × 66⅛ × 14⅝ inches; 167.97 × 167.97 × 37.16 cm
January 19, 2023
Alvaro Barrington in The New Social Environment #729 “Alvaro Barrington: Oh, Sandy? Sandy, Sandy”
January 20, 2023 at 1pm ET
Artist Alvaro Barrington joins Rail contributor Gaby Collins-Fernandez for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Yasmina Martin.
Sponsored by Karma and Anton Kern Gallery, produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
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Alvaro Barrington

Robert Grosvenor, Untitled, 2021-2022, auto body shell, resin, oil paint, 53 × 185 × 63 inches; 134.62 × 469.9 × 160.02 cm
December 13, 2022
A Conversation on Robert Grosvenor
at Karma, Los Angeles
Tuesday December 20, 7pm
On the occasion of Robert Grosvenor, Karma is pleased to present a conversation moderated by Bob Nickas along with artists Paul McCarthy and Davina Semo.
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Robert Grosvenor
December 10, 2022
Keith Mayerson Book Launch and Exhibition
at Karma Bookstore, New York
Saturday December 10, 2022, 3–6pm
Karma Bookstore
136 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
In honor of our latest publication, Keith Mayerson, My American Dream, we are pleased to invite you to the book launch and exhibition at Karma Bookstore this Saturday December 10, from 3–6pm.
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Keith Mayerson

Xiao Jiang, Composition, 2019, oil on burlap, 78¾ × 59¼ inches; 200 × 150.5 cm
December 8, 2022
A Conversation on Xiao Jiang, Continuous Passage
Thursday, December 15, 2022, 5pm
on Zoom
On the occasion of Xiao Jiang, Continuous Passage, Karma is please to present a conversation moderated by curator Barbara Pollack, along with artist Maja Ruznic and associate professor of Rhetoric and History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, Winnie Wong.
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Xiao Jiang

Maja Ruznic, Untitled, 2022, gouache on paper, 9¾ × 7⅛ inches; 24.77 × 18.11 cm, 15¼ × 12¾ inches; 38.73 × 32.38 cm (framed)
December 3, 2022
Maja Ruznic in Shadow Tracer: Works on Paper
at the Aspen Art Museum
December 9, 2022—April 2, 2023
Aspen Art Musem
637 East Hyman Avenue
Aspen, Colorado 81611
This exhibition delves specifically into the inherent experimental spirit of drawing. Using fantasy and the subconscious as a point of departure, Shadow Tracer: Works on Paper considers the ways artists express their interior worlds. Placing recent works by Carmen Argote, Naotaka Hiro, Hanna Hur, Jutta Koether, Joshua AM Ross, and Maja Ruznic in dialogue, this show explores how these artists employ the medium of drawing to navigate this theme. These pieces contemplate the intrinsic performative element of drawing, a medium that has the ability to conjure worlds beyond our own with the very physical tools within our own realms. The act of drawing is akin to creating architectural or written plans, which also suggests a kind of potential, giving life to dreams.
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Maja Ruznic

Mungo Thomson, Volume 5. Sideways Thought, 2020-22. 4K video with sound. 8:09 min. Original Score by Ernst Karel
December 3, 2022
Mungo Thomson, Sculptures
at the Aspen Art Museum
December 9, 2022–April 2, 2023
Aspen Art Musem
637 East Hyman Avenue
Aspen, Colorado 81611
Mungo Thomson’s Sculptures is a meditation on the passage of time and ways of seeing through book images. The exhibition presents the artist’s stop-motion animation Sideways Thought (2020–22), laying out French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s (1840–1917) complete works as photographed and printed in art history monographs. The work is the fifth volume in Thomson’s Time Life (2014–22). This series culls imagery from encyclopedias, how-to guides, cookbooks, science books, and other printed material and arranges them at the high speed of a robotic book scanner. Sideways Thought presents image after image of Rodin’s sculptures in rapid tempo. These works are known for their physicality, exposing the human condition in all stages of passion and suffering.
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Mungo Thomson

Dike Blair, Untitled (Gloucester), 2021, gouache and pencil on paper, 16 × 12 inches; 40.6 × 30.5 cm, 17⅝ × 13⅝ inches; 44.78 × 34.62 cm (framed)
November 22, 2022
A Conversation on Edward Hopper and Dike Blair, Gloucester
at Karma, New York
Tuesday November 29, 7pm
22 East 2nd Street
New York, NY 10003
Please join us for a conversation on Edward Hopper and Dike Blair, Gloucester, organized by Robert Hobbs, with Dike Blair, Isabelle Dervaux, Robert Hobbs, Richard Prince and Nancy Princenthal.
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Dike Blair

Mathew Cerletty, Fuel 5G, 2022, oil on linen, 72 × 58½ inches; 182.88 × 148.59 cm
November 9, 2022
A Conversation: Mathew Cerletty & Naomi Fry
at Karma, Los Angeles
Friday November 18, 6pm
7351 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90046
On the occasion of Mathew Cerletty, True Believer, Karma is pleased to invite you to a conversation to celebrate the exhibition. Join artist Mathew Cerletty and writer Naomi Fry as they discuss pop culture and painting.
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Mathew Cerletty