repetition repetition

June 4 – 28

Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 6PM
(June 4th and 5th, 11AM – 8PM)

Palimpsest or alla prima, painting must and mustn’t repeat itself. Descriptive or declarative, the performance is always recommencing (…again, better…). Unique or multiple, it must have life of its own.

Bram van Velde (1895 – 1981) was a Dutch born artist based largely in Paris. Alongside oil painting, his signature media became gouache and lithography. Beckett wrote of his work as existential impasse. There were lifetime retrospectives internationally, and a definitive Centre Pompidou survey in 1989.

Patricia Treib (1979, Saginaw, Mi) lives and works in Brooklyn. Drawing on a reservoir of gathered ‘sources’ (photographs, works of art), she generates a lexicon of recursive shape-gestures at once abstract and representational. Recent solo exhibitions have been at ARCH, Athens, and Nordenhake, Berlin.

Huge thanks:
Tristan Cormier, Paris. 
Kate MacGarry, London.
Rhett Leinster, Glasgow.

List of works

Hallway:
Bram van Velde. Untitled. Three lithographs on Arches paper, Baudet imp., Paris, 1962. Nos. 4, 52, 14 of 75.(Mason/Putman 16; 20; 22.)

Patricia Treib. Magenta Sleeve; Turquoise Sleeve; Benaki Sleeve. Three etchings on Hanemühle paper, BenvenisteContemporary imp., Madrid, 2025.

Front gallery, clockwise:
Bram van Velde. Vent de Sable. Lithograph on Arches paper, Badey imp., Paris, 1981. No. 60 of 100. (Mason/Putman 392.)

Patricia Treib. Four paintings, oil on paper c.2024 – 2026.

Bram van Velde. Envol. Lithograph on Japon paper. Badey imp., Paris, 1975. No. 91 of 100. (Mason/Putman 184.)

Patricia Treib. Blue Undulation. Oil on canvas, 2023.

Bram van Velde. Untitled. Lithograph on Arches paper, Pons imp., Paris, 1939. Artist’s proof. (Mason/Putman 3.)

Bram van Velde. Enseveli, Lithograph on Arches paper, Badey imp., Paris, 1980. No.45 of 100. (Mason/Putman 385.)

Bram van Velde. Éloignement. Lithograph on Arches paper, Maeght edit., Paris, 1977. No.10 of 100. (Mason/Putman 267.)

Passage, left to right:
Bram van Velde. Untitled. Gouache. 1963.

Bram van Velde. Untitled. Gouache. 1977.

Back gallery, anticlockwise:
Bram van Velde. Écoute. Lithograph on Rives paper, Maeght edit., Paris, 1981. No.13 of 100. (Mason/Putman 133.)

Bram van Velde. Limpide. Lithograph on Arches paper, Maeght edit., Paris, 1981. No.9 of 100. (Mason/Putman 391.)

Patricia Treib. Blue Enclosure. Oil on canvas, 2015.

Bram van Velde. Untitled. Lithograph on Arches paper, Bramsen imp, Paris, 1967. No.31 of 70. (Mason/Putman 42.)

Bram van Velde. Désertique. Lithograph on Arches paper, Maeght edit., Paris, 1981. No.97 of 100. (Mason/Putman 190.)

Patricia Treib. Ten paintings, oil on paper, c.2018 – 2026.