Exhibition
Michael Armitage: Crucible
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Now Open
May 8—June 27, 2025
Opening Reception
Thursday, May 8, 6–8 PM
Location
New York: 19th Street
533 West 19th Street
New York, New York 10011
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Installation view, Michael Armitage: Crucible, David Zwirner, New York, 2025
“Often within Armitage's figuration there are moments of abstraction and narrative layering that complicate an easy categorization of his artistic gestures.... Each time, restlessly, probingly, he reinvents ways to enlist surface ... to tell his stories.”
—Elena Filipovic, director, Kunstmuseum Basel, in “Wounded,” Michael Armitage. You, Who Are Still Alive, 2022
“Neither properly on the ground nor aloft, [his figures] appear suspended in the ‘in-between’, hybrid beings hovering between ‘here’ and ‘there’, this world and that, lived experience and painterly projection. What is at stake, it seems, is the binary, and the unsettlement that destabilizing it can produce.”
—Tamar Garb, art historian, in “Like a Mask Dancing—Michael Armitage and the Promise of Painting,”
Michael Armitage: Account of an Illiterate Man, 2021
Installation view, Michael Armitage: Crucible, David Zwirner, New York, 2025

Michael Armitage, Untitled, 2024 (detail)
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.”
—Warsan Shire, Home

Michael Armitage, Don’t Worry There Will Be More, 2024 (detail)

Installation view, Michael Armitage: Crucible, David Zwirner, New York, 2025

Installation view, Michael Armitage: Crucible, David Zwirner, New York, 2025

Michael Armitage, Untitled, 2024 (detail)

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