Pictures for Happy Existentialists

Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce 'Pictures for Happy Existentialists', an exhibition by Jonathan Lasker. Opening 24 April in London, the presentation will feature paintings and drawings dating from 1990 through 2025, offering a curated survey of Lasker’s singular exploration into line, figure, and ground.

 Over his four-decade career, Lasker has conducted a rigorous examination of painting’s pictorial space. A master colourist, he creates riotously hued canvases that challenge our perception of form and the way we identify subjects in space. He fluidly moves between conscious and subconscious decision-making, generating paintings that invite viewers to engage in a similar dialogue. Though his works possess the energy of spontaneous mark-making, each painting in fact results from a lengthy process in which drawn studies are carefully translated onto canvas.