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Cy Gavin @ GBE

PHOTOGRAPHY /

© 2019 Cy Gavin

All images:
Courtesy of
Gavin Brown's
enterprise,
New York / Rome

Photographer:
Thomas Müller

CREDITS /

March 29, 2018 

2-TIMES  Art
Cy Gavin @ 
Gavin Brown's 
enterprise
 

— 

Souls of the 
condemned could 
only haunt their 
assailants if they 
were killed on the
same 
land: disturbing 
but tacit proof of 
personhood.’ 

Born: 
(1985) — Pittsburgh, PA. 

Lives:
 New York. 

The exhibition: 
Is Cy's first solo at
the gallery, and
features a series of
new paintings, nocturnal
landscapes exploring
ancestry and colonial
histories in Bermuda,
the homeland of Gavin's
father – and the Hudson
Valley, where the
artists studio is based

A departure from
figuration, the works
are portraits of places
– the landscapes serve
as proxies for the body. 

Themes: 
Isolation, abandonment,
confrontation, communion
luxury, hope, and despair. 

"
Eerie and disorienting 
at first glance – we 
sense that something 
troubling has happened 
even if it cannot be seen...”  

On view at: 
Gavin Brown's enterprise 

439 W 127th St,
New York, NY 10027, 
United States. 

Closes: 
April 14, 2019.