Installation view of "Claude Lawrence: Reflections on Porgy & Bess," Venus Over Manhattan, New York, 2024
Claude Lawrence, "Overture," 2022. Oil on canvas; 65 1/2 x 104 in (166.4 x 264.2 cm).
Claude Lawrence, "Sundown Town," 2022. Acrylic on canvas; 122 x 82 in (309.9 x 208.3 cm).
Claude Lawrence, "Poor Robbins," 2022. Acrylic on canvas; Work: 80 x 87 in (203.2 x 221 cm), Framed: 81 1/4 x 88 1/4 in (206.4 x 224.2 cm).
Claude Lawrence, "Can't Sit Down," 2022. Oil on canvas; 73 1/2 x 88 in (186.7 x 223.5 cm).
Claude Lawrence, "The Island," 2022. Acrylic on canvas; Work: 76 1/2 x 82 in (194.3 x 208.3 cm), Framed: 77 3/4 x 83 1/4 in (197.5 x 211.5 cm).
Claude Lawrence, "Gone," 2022. Acrylic on canvas; 93 x 73 3/4 in (236.2 x 187.3 cm).
Claude Lawrence, "Looked Away," 2022. Acrylic on canvas; 79 x 108 1/2 in (200.7 x 275.6 cm).
Claude Lawrence, "Where New York?," 2022. Oil on canvas; Work: 79 1/2 x 73 1/4 in (201.9 x 186.1 cm), Framed: 80 3/4 x 74 1/2 in (205.1 x 189.2 cm).
Claude Lawrence, "Comfort to the Widow," 2022. Oil on canvas; Work: 38 1/2 x 50 1/2 in (97.8 x 128.3 cm), Framed: 39 3/4 x 51 3/4 in (101 x 131.4 cm).
Claude Lawrence, "Untitled," 2018. Acrylic on canvas; Work: 20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm), Framed: 20 1/2 x 20 1/2 in (52.1 x 52.1 cm).
Claude Lawrence (b. 1944, Chicago, IL) lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY. Lawrence’s work has been the subject of numerous solo presentations, including recent exhibitions at Anthony Meier, San Francisco; David Lewis Gallery, East Hampton; and The LAB, Seattle. His work features frequently in major group exhibitions both stateside and abroad, including recent presentations at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; the Long Island Museum, Stony Brook; the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France; Guild Hall, East Hampton; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; and the Newark Art Museum, Newark. Lawrence’s work is held in the permanent collections of more than thirty public institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, among many others.
Claude Lawrence is now represented by Venus Over Manhattan gallery.
VENUS OVER MANHATTAN gallery in New York announced its representation Claude Lawrence (b. 1944), an abstract painter whose work is intrinsically influenced by his longstanding music practice.
Venus Over Manhattan today announced its representation of visionary artist Claude Lawrence (b. 1944).
Vibrant colors and fantastical creatures are in abundance in shows by Sanam Khatibi, Julia Bland, Claude Lawrence, Annette Wehrhahn, and others.
Lawrence’s first exhibition at Venus Over Manhattan is his first in New York City in a decade. Thirteen paintings, four of them in oil with the rest in acrylic, feature playful, colorful forms surrounded by confident outlines, admirably spanning both of the gallery’s spaces at 39 and 55 Great Jones Street.
At 80 years old, jazz musician and self-taught painter Claude Lawrence is making his biggest and boldest paintings yet. These abstract visions are, at turns, ascendent and boisterous, but always inspired by the music that’s defined his life.
For the self-taught abstract painter Claude Lawrence, art and music have always been intimately connected.
