GUY YANAI | 21 October - 27 November 2021 | Miles Mcenery Gallery

Guy Yanai

The Things of Life

21 October - 27 November
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MILES McENERY GALLERY is delighted to announce an exhibition of paintings by Guy Yanai. The Things of Life, the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, will open on 21 October at 525 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 27 November 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Terence Trouillot.
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Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Guy Yanai: The Things of Life," 21 October - 27 November 2021.
- Guy Yanai
  Margot & Gaspard (Platonic Relationship), 2021
  Oil on linen
  59 x 47 1/4 inches
  150 x 120 cm
- Guy Yanai
  Garage Dauphiné, 2021
  Oil on linen
  59 x 47 1/4 inches
  150 x 120 cm
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Guy Yanai
Woman With Apple, 2021
Oil on linen
31 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches
80 x 60 cm

"Beyond the allusions to David Hockney, Yanai’s virtuosity is also reminiscent of the Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat, and it additionally harkens back to Alma Thomas’s careful mark-making in her color field abstractions. The lozenge-style brushstrokes—oftentimes extending to long rectangular strips of paint—build upon each other to create beautiful, jagged images of time and space. The accumulation of these colorful streaks of pigment feels like a frenzied mess carefully arranged in perfect harmony—as if Yanai were building a house made of match sticks. There’s uncertainty, precarity to his tableaux. His marks do as much to tell a narrative as do his cast of characters. Together, they compliment each other, helping us to find room and time to sit still and think about art, gesture, form, and life—to remove our-selves from the daily clatter, and from our screens."

- Terence Trouillot, "Guy Yanai: Painterly Intuition and a Flair for the Cinematic"
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GUY YANAI (b. in 1977 in Haifa, Israel) attended Parsons School of Design, New York, NY; The New York Studio School, New York, NY; Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France; and received a BFA from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.

Yanai has had numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include “The Things of Life,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “The Caboose,” Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA; “ETÉ 2020,” Niels Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “LIFE IN GERMANY,” Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Sentimental Spring,” SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; “The Conformist,” Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France; “Boy On an Island,” Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany; “Barbarian in the Garden,” Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA; “Speak, America,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, New York, NY; “Calm European,” Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands; “Love of Beginnings,” Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France; “Fox Hill Road,” Rod Barton Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; “Mademoiselle Albertine est Partie! Kaye Donachie and Guy Yanai,” Appartement, Paris, France; “Ordinary Things,” Haifa Museum ofArt, Haifa, Israel; “Ancienne Rive,” and Ameringer | McEnery |Yohe Gallery, New York, NY.

Recent group exhibitions include “Do You Think it Needs a Cloud,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “The Vista,” Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, LA; “Yin/Yang,” O-O LA, Los Angeles, CA; “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Color & Pattern,” Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA; “Stranger Than Paradise,” Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; “Tom Friedman (+The Birthday Show),” 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; “Passage,” ACME., Los Angeles, CA; “I’ll Not Be In Your Damn Ledger,” CRG Gallery, New York, NY; “Grafforists,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; “Cult of Color,” Circuit 12, Dallas, TX and; “Lost in a Sea of Red,” The Pit, Glendale, CA.

Yanai currently lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel and Marseille, France.

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