“Frankenthaler”

GROUP SHOW

Stone/Age presents Frankenthaler. A group exhibition about painting, consciousness, materiality, memory, desire, the body, and several people who have chosen to spend their lives putting colored goo on fabric instead of getting a normal job. Painting is ancient. Caveman paints buffalo. Artist paints rectangle. Caveman: “Buffalo.” Artist: “An interrogation of the body through material gesture.” Same shit. Different rent. Artists in the group exhibition reveal through their efforts both the challenges and complexities evident in one’s mind. The question of “being” has puzzled the human mind for millennia. Heidegger proposition of dasein meaning “being there” or “presence” provided a foundation for the individual  to make practical sense of reality. This paradigm shift in thinking collapses the mind & body problem to the study of consciousness. It is the manifestation of human experience - working in a busy city, interacting with family and friends that translates directly from connecting neurons in the human brain directly through the hand of the artist & brush directly onto the painted canvas.

Frankenthaler let paint soak into the canvas. The paint went in. The paint spread out. The paint had a better time than everybody else. Critics called it revolutionary. Frankenthaler basically invented letting the paint fuck around. Dona Nelson paints both sides. Because apparently one side of a painting wasn’t enough of a headache. Front. Back. Object. Painting. Don’t touch. Walk around. Think about it. Pretend you understand it. Steve DiBenedetto makes so many lines that eventually the painting looks like it needs a Xanax. Erase. Draw. Erase. Draw. Repeat until the canvas develops a personality disorder. This is called process. Process is when you keep making decisions until the mistakes become intentional. Dominick Vanderlip provides insight into textured patterns on colored fields.  Slowing down the viewer to experience the material at hand. Hannah Beerman & Andrea Marie Breiling draft moments of cohesion that reveals an inner-psychological dialogue between artist/work, external/internal held together by the four edges of the canvas frame.

Stone/Age is: Dillan Conniff. Jonathan DeDecker. Holden Fuller. EM Graff. Anna Lauree. TL3. Jeremy Mcbrian. Zarina Van Ranzow. Kai Sugiyama. Dominick Vanderlip. Young painters. Reckless painters. Painters with MFA-level vocabulary and hardware-store problems. They are trying to answer the big questions: Why are we here? What is painting? Why is this $12,000? Can I afford rent? Does this look better upside down? Nobody knows. So they paint. Heidegger called this Dasein. We call it being alive and making questionable financial decisions. The body becomes the brush. The brush becomes the gesture. The gesture becomes materiality. Materiality becomes discourse. Discourse becomes a PDF. The PDF becomes an artist statement. The artist statement becomes 900 words explaining why a fucking line is important. And here we are. Stone/Age.Painting. Being. Materiality. Whatever. Please enjoy the exhibition. Please contemplate existence. Please don’t touch anything. The paintings have boundaries. Unlike the artists.

Sep 18th - Sep 20th

279 Broome St, New York, NY, 100022

Opening Reception: Friday, September 18th, 2026 6-9pm

Artist:

Trinity Bavaria, Hannah Beerman, Brian Belott,

Andrea Marie Breiling, Wyatt Davis,

Jonathan DeDecker, Noel de Lesseps,

Steve Dibenedetto, Noah Czarnecki Freeman,

Sarah Fuhrman, Holden Fuller, Pam Glick,

Yasmine Gooley, EM Graff,

Sadie Laska, Jacob Lay, Maren Less,

Elmi Mata, Jeremy McBrian, Jorge Mujica,

Dona Nelson, Bret Slater, Patrick Sullivan, TL3,

Dominick Vanderlip, Elvin Vicente, Quinn Yanku.