Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an immersive installation by Charles Long

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, is presenting paradigm lost, an immersive installation by Charles Long. On view in the downstairs gallery from January 5 – February 9, 2019, the exhibition brings together a body of work that the artist created over the last year. For the artist’s thirteenth solo exhibition with the gallery, paradigm lost continues the artist’s investigation of the forms scattered on the shore of modernism’s receding wave. Long’s studio output of the last 3 decades reveals both a charting of this modernist trajectory and need to transcend its shortcomings. With references to Giacometti, Guston, Munch, Brancusi, and other patriarchs who haunt the artist’s studio, paradigm lost castrates these forbearers in a poetic socio-political examination of our present moment, to nuanced and playful ends. The inspiration for this body of work developed during the artist’s daily walks thr