Pamela Jorden’s first solo show in New York opened on November 6, 2004, inaugurating the newly founded Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in Brooklyn. 20 years later, Jorden’s new fall show is timed as a celebration of her practice and her steadfast devotion to experimentation within abstraction. Jorden’s early small rectilinear canvases set the tone for her lifelong project of using unusual line and composition, though she soon broke out of the rectangle and began working on round, irregular, and multi-panel surfaces where the frame itself embodies movement and gesture. Today her work dances in experimental mark-making and structure. This new show will focus on canvases of varying shapes, including narrow, totem-like diptychs that incorporate cut-outs and curves.

Pamela Jorden has had recent shows at Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles and at Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco. Her work was recently exhibited at the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island, and at the Columbus Museum of Art/Pizzuti Collection in Columbus, OH as well as the Governor’s Mansion in California.

Over the course of Geoffrey Hendricks’s (1931-2018) career he was known for his near-daily practice of painting the sky and clouds. Whether painted as diaristic watercolors, large acrylics on stretched canvas, or on objects such as work boots, shovels, road signs and hanging laundry, the sky provided a sense of time, place, and universality. The new show will consist of a selection of early sky canvases, as well as an exploration of Hendricks’s performance work which paralleled his association with Fluxus.

Geoffrey Hendricks was a pioneering artist in performance, painting, sculpture, and conceptual art. His work was recently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Leslie Lohman Museum in NY, the Columbus Museum of Art. Klaus Gallery also featured his work in a solo presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2023.