Richeldis Fine Art is honoured to present a landmark exhibition of Gary Kuehn (b. 1939, New Jersey, USA; collections include MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Ludwig, Stedelijk Museum, Albertina Museum, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, MMK Frankfurt, Kröller-Müller Museum) and Morgan Stokes (b. 1990, Sydney, Australia; works held in significant private collections in Australia and Europe), opening on 9 October 2025 and running for three months.
The exhibition marks a rare opportunity to encounter Kuehn’s Black Paintings, a stark and distilled body of work he first began in 1969 and continues to this day. Thick, forceful gestures of black pigment confront the white ground, extending Kuehn’s sculptural language into two dimensions. Poured into irregular circular forms, the dense acrylic surfaces assert their own material logic, pressing against the limits of the canvas. These works embody the tension between freedom and control, collapse and containment—concerns that have defined Kuehn’s radical contribution to post-minimalism.
Presented alongside these historic works are new paintings and sculptures by Morgan Stokes. Moving between painting and object, Stokes deconstructs the very elements of his medium—pigment, cloth, stretcher, stone—reassembling them into hybrid forms that question where art begins and ends. His recent black nickel sculptures sprawl across the gallery floor as if exceeding their own boundaries, while his installations transform plinths into active components of the work. Together, Stokes’ practice echoes and extends Kuehn’s legacy of testing the limits of form and material.
This exhibition offers a dialogue across generations, uniting one of America’s most influential post-minimalist masters with a rising contemporary artist whose work challenges how we see, perceive, and encounter painting today.
© Text and Photo Courtesy of Richeldis Fine Art
