until Sunday September 13 2015

New Museum of Contemporary Art
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235 Bowery
10002 New York
United States

HOME AND GARDEN

This summer, the New Museum will present the first major New York exhibition of the work of German artist Albert Oehlen.

“Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden” will include a selection of the artist’s early self-portraits, his computer paintings and switch paintings from the 1990s, and more recent works fusing appropriated advertising signage and aggressive brushstrokes. Rather than following a chronological path through Oehlen’s prodigious thirty-year career, the exhibition explores contrasts between interior and exterior, nature and culture, and irony and sincerity, while also demonstrating Oehlen’s commitment to continually expanding the language of painting in surprising ways.