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Image: Leidy Churchman, One Taste, 2020. Oil on linen, 79 x 102 1/2 inches. © Leidy Churchman, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art

April 26-June 21, 2024

Reception Friday, April 26

5-7:30pm, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery is pleased to present the first one-person Philadelphia exhibit by Leidy Churchman. Born in Villanova, Churchman received a degree from Hampshire College and their MFA from Columbia University.

Churchman paints as a means to explore the nature of reality. Emerging from an openness to diverse images and experiences, disparate subjects and painting styles provide varied channels to engage the collective mind and probe the daily complex emotions we face as we navigate
this world. Their paintings delight in unbound interconnectivity and possibility, expanding our direct understanding of the discernible.

Churchman produces both large and small paintings with ease. Rooted in Tibetan Buddhism, intuition and meditation give rise to an ever-evolving coming into being. A non-hierarchic consciousness awakens to a wide range of subject matter, which includes art history, the natural world, urban landscapes, political structures, and the flow of visual information in society. This engagement with looking produces visions out of context but connected just the same. The heterogeneity of everyday experience, whether it be in front of our eyes or behind them, on an iPhone, a book, or a dream, ultimately achieves clarity and balance.

Churchman has been exhibiting since 2002. They have had 20 one-person exhibits, including at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles; Boston University Art Gallery; Mary Boone Gallery, Murray Guy, Matthew Marks Gallery, and Sunday Gallery, all in New York City; Hessel Museum of Art and CCS at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Silberkuppe Galerie and Horton Gallery, both in Berlin, Germany.

Churchman has been shown in nearly 90 group exhibits worldwide, including at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Phillips Collection, both in Washington, D.C; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York; P.S.1, Long Island City, New York; Artists Space, Drawing Center, New Museum, White Columns, and Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York City; and internationally at Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany; Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy; and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.

Churchman’s work is in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Rollins Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Museum für Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; and Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Leidy Churchman is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City.

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery’s exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Images

Installation view of two paintings on adjoining walls

installation image of painting with repeating but slightly differing figures

La Reproduction Infinite (installation view), 2023. Oil on linen, 46 × 31 inches. © Leidy Churchman, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Private Collection on behalf of AWG Art Advisory. Photo: Neighboring States

Installation image of two paintings on adjoining walls

Installation image of a large painting handing next to a smaller one

Installation image of large painting of coast and smaller painting with words

installation view of painting of coast on wall and another painting on adjoining wall

Installation view of painting of coastline

Wonderland (installation view), 2021. Oil on linen, 51 × 83 inches. © Leidy Churchman, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Collection Robert Gober. Photo: Neighboring States

Installation view of two paintings in different spaces of the gallery

Installation image of painting on wall and steps in lower frame

Relief of Weariness by Ultimate Mind (installation view), 2017. Oil on linen, 47.5 x 44.5 inches. © Leidy Churchman, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Collection of Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip Aarons. Photo: Neighboring States

Installation view of one larger painting and another smaller painting on different wall

installation view of painting with eyes nose and mouth amidst other designs

17th Century Face II (installation view), 2016. Oil on linen, 20.1 x 25 inches. © Leidy Churchman, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Collection of Blake Lyon. Photo: Neighboring States

Installation view of two paintings, one in foreground, one in background

Installation view of two paintings on two different walls

Lungta (installation view), 2018. Oil on linen, 26 ⅛ × 30 inches. © Leidy Churchman, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Collection of the artist. Photo: Neighboring States

Installation view of two paintings of different sizes hanging on adjoining walls

Installation view of painting of a Buddhist mystic depicted in a landscape

Flash Appearance (Padmasambhava in Maine) (installation view), 2023. Oil on linen, 58 × 42 inches. © Leidy Churchman, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Collection of the artist. Photo: Neighboring States

Installation view of two paintings of different sizes on different walls

Installation view of two paintings on two different walls, one in foreground, one in back

Installation view of two paintings located no either side of a dividing wall

Installation view of large landscape painting in foreground and small one in side background

Installation view of alcove with three paintings on three different walls

Installation view of gallery with painting in right foreground

Installation view of corner of gallery with two paintings on adjoining walls

Installation image of two smaller paintings hanging on adjoining walls

Installation view of small painting of a crab on a black background

Crab and Plankton (installation view), 2014. Oil on linen, 12.5 x 14 inches. © Leidy Churchman, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Collection of Laura Belaray and Steven Eckler. Photo: Neighboring States

Installation view of gallery with paintings on walls

Installation view of paintings in the gallery

Installation view of gallery with paintings on display

Installation view of gallery with two paintings hanging on wall