Jack Shainman Gallery Inaugurates Tribeca Flagship with Monumental Nick Cave Show

The artist makes his New York City return in the renovated 20,000-square-foot space.

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Jack Shainman Gallery has opened the doors to its new, 20,000-square-foot Tribeca flagship, and is inaugurating the space with Amalgams and Graphts, a monumental solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Nick Cave. On view until March 15, the show introduces two series that push Cave’s celebrated practice into new conceptual and material terrain.

The space opens with Amalgams, a trio of bronze sculptures that merge casts of Cave’s own body with blooming, natural forms. Building off of his iconic Soundsuit series, created in response to the 1991 police beating of Rodney King, these pieces envisions inclusive and resilient alternatives to traditional public art. Following the exhibition period, “Amalgam (Origin)” – the towering 26-foot-tall centerpiece – will join the permanent collection of the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Debuting alongside the bronzes is Graphts, a new series of mixed-media works that blends needlepoint self-portraits with vintage serving trays adorned with floral motifs. While needlepoint gestures toward upper-class leisure, the patchwork of trays reflect Black quilting traditions, creating a dialogue between servitude and hierarchy.

Housed in the historic Clock Tower Building, the gallery preserves the elegance of the Beaux-Arts bank hall with 29-foot-high coffered ceilings, grand staircases and arched windows – the perfect backdrop for Cave’s first New York show since his Guggenheim retrospective in 2022.

Jack Shainman Gallery Tribeca
46 Lafayette St,
New York, NY 10013

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