Between Gesture and Form: Abstraction from Midcentury to Now
About this Event
An exhibition opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 12th from 5-8pm at CK Contemporary. Sculptor J. Nick Taylor will be in attendance and refreshments will be served.
CK Contemporary is pleased to announce “Between Gesture and Form: Abstraction from Midcentury to Now,” an exhibition tracing the throughline between mid-century American abstraction and contemporary sculpture, on view from September 12, 2026 through October 10, 2026. The exhibition brings together paintings by two towering figures of postwar American art, Jack Wolfe (1924–2007) and Walter Quirt (1902–1968), alongside new sculptural work by California-based artist Nick Taylor, positioning three distinct bodies of work in dialogue across seven decades.
A group of previously unseen, large-scale paintings by Jack Wolfe serve as the foundation for the exhibition, and are carefully paired with works from the estate of Walter Quirt. Where Wolfe pushed his work into pure abstraction, Quirt maintained a figurative foundation - both using color, gesture, and rhythm to register the emotional and social pressures of their era in remarkably similar ways. Taylor, whose sculptures are being newly introduced to the gallery through this exhibition, is a contemporary, California based sculptor who works in wood and forged steel to build forms that carry forward that same restless, exploratory spirit, and bridge the gap between something purely abstract and something embodying the sensuality of the human form and spirit.
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