Exhibition

Tomma Abts

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Now Open

May 1—June 14, 2025

Opening Reception

Thursday, May 1, 6–8 PM

Location

New York: 19th Street

525 West 19th Street

New York, New York 10011

Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat: 10 AM-6 PM

Artist

Tomma Abts

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Installation view, Tomma Abts, David Zwirner, New York, 2025

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition by Tomma Abts, featuring a group of new paintings that showcases the artist’s sustained engagement with process and form. These works, which extend the ongoing body of intimately scaled canvases that Abts has been making since 1998, are among her most experimental to date, playfully exploring new possibilities in their medium, format, and composition. This will be Abts’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery and her first exhibition in New York since 2019.

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Tomma Abts

Tomma Abts

Ipke, 2025

Acrylic and oil on canvas in two (2) parts

18 7/8 x 15 inches (48 x 38 cm)

Tomma Abts

Jeldo, 2024

Acrylic and oil on canvas

18 7/8 x 15 inches (48 x 38 cm)

Installation view, Tomma Abts, David Zwirner, New York, 2025

Tomma Abts

Omko, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

34 x 25 inches (86.3 x 63.5 cm)

Tomma Abts, Omko, 2024 (detail)

Abts is known for her complex paintings and drawings that evolve in accordance with a self-determined and ever-widening set of parameters, which results in compositions that are intuitively constructed and precisely articulated. The textured surface, fine ridges, and subtle gradations of color are evidence of the process of finding, rendering, and establishing a final image.

Tomma Abts

Heerko, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

34 x 25 inches (86.3 x 63.5 cm)

Tomma Abts, Heerko, 2024 (detail)

In the works on view—which include a painting in two parts and a painting on silk, as well as two works that incorporate a segment of cast bronze or aluminum—Abts finds alternate means of beginning, realizing, and resolving a painting.