WHEN WE SEE US—Sydney Vernon’s first solo exhibition, now at Thierry Goldberg—has been extended through July 10.
Family is at the forefront of Vernon’s solo debut, as scenes and characters in her works on paper are pulled from photographs of her immediate relatives. The familial artifacts span over forty years, extending back to before Vernon was born, and allow the artist to connect to specific moments in history and reflect on the context of the world at the time the images were created. The past never passes for Vernon, and its influences are shaped and reconsidered in current time.*
Through July 10.
Thierry Goldberg
109 Norfolk Street, New York City.
Sydney Vernon, When We See Us, Thierry Goldberg, March 8, 2020–July 10, 2020, from top: My Fair Lady, 2020, gouache, pastel, and silkscreen on paper; For Sam and Al, 2, 2019, oil, charcoal and pastel on paper; Water Damage, 2019, oil pastel, silkscreen, charcoal and acrylic paint on paper; Untitled, 2020, ink, paper, charcoal, oil, and acetone transfer on paper; The Warmth of Other Suns, 2019, charcoal and pastel on paper; Untitled, 2020, oil, pastel and colored pencil on paper; All the things you could be by now, 2018, ink, charcoal, oil paint, oil pastel, and screenprint on paper; When We See Us, 2019, acetone transfer, charcoal, silkscreen, magazine clipping, acrylic paint, and pastel on paper; Untitled, 2019, silkscreen, rubber stamp, charcoal, vellum, ink and pastel on paper. Images courtesy and © the artist and Thierry Goldberg.
