For Frieze London 2022, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery will bring together a cross-generational group of female artists, including Angela Heisch, Jacqueline de Jong, Wangari Mathenge, Dindga McCannon, Nengi Omuku, Mary Kelly, Zarouhie Abdalian, Nasim Hantehzadeh, Ming Smith, Francesca DiMattio, Zoë Buckman and Qualeasha Wood.
Jacqueline de Jong’s dynamic new painting Snowdonia at Dawn (2022) pays tribute to the mining industry so crucial to the local community in the last century, the pigments in her painting as glorious as the copper, gold and manganese sought deep underground. A preeminent figure of the European avant-garde, Jacqueline de Jong’s diverse practice explores violence, banality and eroticism. Recent solo exhibitions include Jacqueline de Jong, Abattoirs, Toulouse; Pinball Wizard: The Work and Life of Jacqueline de Jong, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Ultimate Kiss, WIELS, Brussels; touring to MOSTYN, Wales; Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany. Collections include Centre Pompidou, Paris and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. De Jong will be the subject of an upcoming museum exhibition at NSU Fort Lauderdale from May to October 2023.
Other highlights include Dindga McCannon’s Blues Queens (2021), a totemic textile sculpture by the Harlem-born artist whose first exhibition in Europe opens at the gallery in tandem with the fair. Blues Queens is an homage to female blues singers, whose portraits McCannon embroiders into the deep blue fabric. Qualeasha Wood will be represented by a new jacquard tapestry that combines self-portraiture with Catholic iconography. Wood is currently artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Forthcoming exhibitions include MoMA PS1 in late 2022 and her first UK solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in May 2023.
New works by Wangari Mathenge, Nengi Omuku and Zoë Buckman find commonality in the exploration of female identity and personhood.Wangari Mathenge brings visibility to black women, exploring diaspora and hybridity. Her new painting, When It Rains… II (2022), responds to issues of global hardship, particularly the rollback of reproductive rights in the US, also a key theme in Buckman’s recent oeuvre. Omuku’s work investigates the complexities that surround identity and the politics of the body. Welcome Home (2022) depicts a female figure in repose surrounded by the verdant Nigerian landscape, while a voyeuristic group look on in the background. Reflecting Omuku’s theme of botany, Angela Heisch’s Soft Bloom (2022) draws inspiration from the collective sensations in the world around her. The New Orleans Museum of Art and The Whitworth have recently announced their acquisition of Heisch’s works, while Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Museum their acquisition of works by Mathenge of this year.
Following on from the gallery’s recent representation announcement and ahead of her first UK solo show this November, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery will present a new painting by Iranian-American artist Nasim Hantehzadeh featuring her signature biomorphic iconography.
Zarouhie Abdalian, who last year conceived a site-specific audio-visual installation for the gallery’s micro project space, The Box, will have her first solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in February 2023. In a new floor-based sculptural installation, she explores the seizure and exploitation of land for capitalist industry. Abdalian is currently included in Put It This Way at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, an exhibition of work by women and nonbinary artists from the museum’s permanent collection.
