Leon Golub – Riot

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Hauser & Wirth
32 East 69th Street
New York, NY 10021
May 11 – June 20, 2015

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Hauser & Wirth's uptown New York location is home to a new retrospective of work by the late, great Leon Golub. The show presents several decades worth of paintings from the 1960s to the 1980s, and a selection of late drawings from the 2000s. Golub was more than an artist, he was a truly thoughtful and empathetic voice in the world, with the torsion he so accurately portrays with paint seeming to come directly from his own inner struggles with reality. It truly is a rare thing to get to see this whole philosophical journey in one gallery, which makes this a must-see exhibition in my opinion. An advance warning: a few of his series from the 1980s, such as White Squads, might leave your blood boiling long after you leave the exhibit itself, such is the power of the American figurative painter's work.

—Hauser & Wirth