Sadie Laska and Jesse Littlefield
Harper’s Books is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of recent work by Sadie Laska and Jesse Littlefield, organized by the artist Eddie Martinez. The show will open with a reception on Saturday, May 31, and will remain on view in the main level and mezzanine galleries through Tuesday, July 1.
Working at the vanguard of twenty-first-century abstraction, Laska and Littlefield explore the latent possibilities of contemporary painting, combining geometric motifs with a raw Art Brut aesthetic. Integrating collage elements as varied as painted muslin, paper plates, ribbons, and flip-flops, both artists engage tactics of subtraction and addition in two-dimensional and three-dimensional form.
A recent graduate of Bard's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Sadie Laska has shown her paintings and sculptural assemblages internationally, with solo exhibitions at Kerry Schuss in New York and at Galerie Bernard Ceysson in Geneva and Paris. She has been featured in group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tuscon, at Cleopatra's in Brooklyn, and at White Columns in New York, among other venues. In addition to maintaining her career as a visual artist, Laska is also a prolific musician, currently involved in the projects I.U.D. and Growing. Laska lives in New York and is represented by Kerry Schuss.
Jesse Littlefield worked primarily as a graffiti artist before developing his studio-based practice rooted in minimalist abstraction. Over the last two years, he has participated in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, at Martos Gallery in New York, and at Greenpoint Terminal Gallery in Brooklyn. Littlefield is currently based in Boston.
Exhibitions
- June 26, 2021 - July 21, 2021
Potent - June 26, 2021 - July 21, 2021
Nicasio Fernandez: Within and Without - June 26, 2021 - July 21, 2021
Frederic Tuten: Works on Cardboard - June 10, 2021 - July 10, 2021
Ryan Wilde: Venus Su Misura - May 13, 2021 - June 26, 2021
Austyn Weiner: Morning Wood - May 22, 2021 - June 23, 2021
36 Paintings - May 29, 2021 - June 23, 2021
Matthew King: Paintings on Aluminum - May 6, 2021 - June 5, 2021
Dan Flanagan: Everything Is a Lot of Things - April 10, 2021 - May 16, 2021
JJ Manford: View From Gowanus - April 8, 2021 - May 8, 2021
Ho Jae Kim: Butterfly Dream - April 1, 2021 - May 1, 2021
Joani Tremblay: The whole time, the sun - February 18, 2021 - March 26, 2021
Scott Kahn: Afternoon of a Faun - see all exhibitions