Peter Saul “New Paintings”

Venus over Manhattan

[Image: Peter Saul "Bowl of Flowers with Insects" (2020) Acrylic on canvas; 72 x 84 in.]

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Venus Over Manhattan and Michael Werner Gallery present a joint exhibition of new paintings and works on paper made by acclaimed artist by Peter Saul over the course of 2020 and 2021. Serving as a coda to “Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment,” the artist’s recent retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, this exhibition elaborates thematic interests that Saul has pursued over the course of his six decade career. Notably, these new works are less politicized than earlier bodies of work by the artist, and instead focus upon formal concerns – themes and styles – developed throughout his practice. The exhibition elaborates Saul’s longstanding critiques of official artistic movements and features archetypal characters in vivid paintings that highlight source materials and symbols familiar from his oeuvre. Saul’s new works here foreground his continued relevance as a purveyor of a wholly unique, madcap vision, and testify to the outsized influence of his groundbreaking art.