THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Osman Can Yerebakan
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| The artist Leidy Churchman in their Brooklyn studio with their work “Kishkindha Forest (Jodhpur)” (2020). Jacob Pritchard |
Tucked at the end of an unassuming alley in Red Hook, Brooklyn, amid 19th-century red brick houses originally built to accommodate fishermen,
Leidy Churchman’s studio feels like a refuge — a minimalist retreat that exudes the kind of tranquillity found in the artist’s meditative paintings. Churchman, 40, is known for their contemplative, detailed explorations of a broad array of themes relating to memory, pop culture and art history. If they have a signature, it is perhaps the diversity of their subject matter, which has included exotic animals, Tibetan Buddhism, maps, online videos, paintings by other artists, from the French Post-Impressionist Henri Rousseau to the American Modernist Marsden Hartley, and book covers. [
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| The work “Karma Kagyu & Essex St. (Yellow Studio) (Devotion)” (2020), one of the new paintings on view at Churchman’s show at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. Jacob Pritchard |
