Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey - Lévy Gorvy
  • Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

    Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

  • Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

    Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

  • Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

    Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

  • Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

    Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

  • Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. All works by Robert Ryman. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein. Artwork © 2018 Robert Ryman / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

    Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. All works by Robert Ryman. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein. Artwork © 2018 Robert Ryman / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

  • Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey.

    Installation view of Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey. All works by Cy Twombly. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein. Artwork © 2018 Cy Twombly Foundation

Intimate Infinite: Imagine A JourneyExhibitions

New York
September 6 - October 24, 2018

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Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey

Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey invites visitors to become immersed in the work of artists who collapse the vastness of infinity into tangible dimensions through obsessive detail and concentrated mark making, the distilled intensity of small scale, or the tactile materiality of their surfaces. In its exploration of the sublime, the exhibition unfolds over all three levels of the gallery’s New York City landmark building, and includes nearly one hundred artworks.

In his first exhibition organized for the gallery, co-founder Brett Gorvy’s selection of paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures was inspired by William Blake’s poem Auguries of Innocence: “To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour.” Beginning on the gallery’s ground floor, viewers will first encounter a wall of Robert Ryman paintings of different scales and materiality, in direct conversation with three paintings by Cy Twombly, which include the stunning blackboard work Untitled  (1967). The second floor focuses on artworks that demonstrate distinctive sensuality and sensitivity to material, featuring masterworks by the most influential female artists of the 1960s and 1970s in juxtaposition with those of their male peers. Highlights include the bulging and stitched wall relief of Lee Bontecou’s Untitled (1959), made from leather, canvas, welded steel rods, and wire, displayed in visual contrast to the inward movement of Jasper Johns’s White Target (1958). The third floor of Intimate Infinite is a meditation upon fantastical universes, including surreal landscapes by Yves Tanguy, such as Lumen (1949), and René Magritte’s La condition humaine (1935). These works are positioned alongside exquisitely executed box assemblages by Joseph Cornell and Lucas Samaras. This room will also feature seven butterfly works by Jean Dubuffet—the first time in New York that such a significant assembly of these rare and intricate collages will be shown together.

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Selected Works

  • Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1967

    Cy Twombly
    Untitled
    1967
    Oil-based house paint and wax crayon on canvas
    57 x 68 inches (144.8 x 172.7 cm)
    Artwork © 2018 Cy Twombly Foundation
    Photo: Stephen White

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  • Hannah Wilke, Mellow Yellow, 1975

    Hannah Wilke
    Mellow Yellow
    1975
    Latex and snaps
    22 x 31 x 5 inches, (55.9 x 78.7 x 12.7 cm)
    Artwork © 2018 Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt - Hannah Wilke Collection and Archive, Los Angeles
    Photo: Tom Powel Imaging

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  • Jean Dubuffet, Le Strabique (The Cross-Eyed Man), 1953

    Jean Dubuffet
    Le Strabique (The Cross-Eyed Man)
    1953
    Collage with butterfly wings and gouache on paper board
    9 3/4 x 7 inches (24.8 x 17.8 cm)
    Private collection, courtesy Pace Gallery
    Artwork © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
    Photo: Tim Nighswander / IMAGING4ART

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  • Robert Ryman, Untitled, 1962

    Robert Ryman
    Untitled
    1962
    Oil on linen
    69 1/2 x 69 1/2 inches (176.5 x 176.5 cm)
    Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art
    © 2018 Robert Ryman / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
    Photo: Whitney Museum, NY

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  • Joseph Cornell, Untitled (The Snow Maiden), c. 1933

    Joseph Cornell
    Untitled (The Snow Maiden)
    c. 1933
    Box construction
    13 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (33.7 x 33.7 x 6.4 cm)
    Artwork © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
    Photo: Tim Nighswander / IMAGING4ART

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  • Bruce Conner, Psychedelicatessen Owner, 1990

    Bruce Conner
    Psychedelicatessen Owner
    1990
    Collage on found illustrations
    8 x 5 7/8 inches (20.3 x 14.9 cm)
    Artwork © 2018 Bruce Conner / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
    Photo: Tom Powel Imaging

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  • Carol Rama, Bricolage, 1967

    Carol Rama
    Bricolage
    1967
    Mixed media on canvas
    13 11/16 x 17 1/2 inches (34.7 x 44.5 cm)
    Artwork © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino
    Photo: Stefan Altenburger

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  • René Magritte, La condition humaine, 1935

    René Magritte
    La condition humaine
    1935
    Oil on canvas
    10 1/8 x 8 inches (25.6 x 20.4 cm)
    Artwork © 2018 C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
    Photo: Tim Nighswander / IMAGING4ART

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Video

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Publications

Selected Press

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October 30, 2018

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October 21, 2018

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October 19, 2018

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October 11, 2018

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The Brooklyn Rail | Intimate Infinite: Imagine a Journey

October 3, 2018

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Wall Street International | Intimate Infinite

September 19, 2018

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Art Observed | New York – "Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey” Curated by Brett Gorvy at Lévy Gorvy Through October 24th, 2018

September 14, 2018

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September 13, 2018

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ArtDaily | Lévy Gorvy opens first exhibition organized by co-founder Brett Gorvy

September 12, 2018

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Artforum | Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey

September 12, 2018

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September 4, 2018

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September 4, 2018

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Widewalls | An Exploration of the Sublime by 27 Artists at Lévy Gorvy

August 30, 2018

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August 30, 2018

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Blouin Artinfo | Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey at Lévy Gorvy, New York

August 29, 2018

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