Ted Gahl

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Ted Gahl's paintings brim with undifferentiated energy. Washy grounds and swaths of colors become fertile lands for his exploration of an unconscious populated by dreams and memories mingling together. A history accrues on each canvas with forms and characters drifting in and out of recognition like the flash of a day dream. The physical build up of paint scraped and returned whispers of hidden stories. In this way time becomes a partner in his creation, a foil against which narratives emerge. Gahl ushers in scenes both strange and familiar, allowing the viewer enough to grab onto while maintaining a feeling of openness and possibility. Figuration sits nestled in loose architectural abstraction, sometimes a cabinet, sometimes a place more diffuse. These delineations act on the desire to hold onto the impossible, to contain the night sky, to make still the clouds. A longing both somber and beautiful permeates the works as shapes and titles reference the artist's travels to faraway landscapes and inner worlds.
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Ted Gahl

Ted Gahl (b.1983 in New Haven, Connecticut), lives and works in Northwest, Connecticut. Gahl holds a BFA (2006) from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and an MFA (2010) from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.

 

Upcoming 2024 exhibitions include a two-person exhibition at Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY (June 2024). Selected solo exhibitions include: Café Nervosa, MAMOTH, London (2023); Le Goon, Harkawik, New York (2023); She is My Clock, MAMOTH, London (2022); March Pictures, Halsey McKay Gallery, New York (2021); Paintings, Alexander Berggruen, New York (2020); Towers, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco (2017); Hibernation Anxiety, Retrospective, Hudson (2016); The Commuter, Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2015); Night Painter, Dodge Gallery, New York (2011) among others.

 
Selected group exhibitions include:Ted Gahl, Dustin Hodges, Gabriel Mills, Anna Ting Möller, Soumya Netrabile, Kaifan Wang, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY (2024); Room to Dream, Swanson Kuball, Long Island City, USA (2024); Moon Juice, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels (2023); Threshold, Curated by Lindsay Jarvis and Frenel Morris, 91 Allen, New York (2023); Ted Gahl/Betty Kingseed, Towards, Toronto, Canada (2022); The Glass Bead Game, MAMOTH Contemporary, London (2022); Drawing in Lockdown, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2021); Nostos, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); Osyter, Galerie Jacob Bjorn, Aarhus (2018); FFFFFiguration, curated by Jonathan Chapline, Never Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (2017); Bill & Ted, Bill Adams & Ted Gahl, Freddy, New York (2016); Suddenly Last Summer, Longhouse Projects, New York (2015); Marquee Moon, Thierry Goldberg, New York (2014) among others.

 
Ted Gahl's works reside in public collections including the RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.

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