At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World

David Zwirner is pleased to announce At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World, curated by Hilton Als. On view at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles, the exhibition continues the gallery’s history of presenting curated exhibitions that focus on different facets of Neel’s ever-relevant work, and follows Als’s critically acclaimed Alice Neel, Uptown, which was on view at David Zwirner New York in 2017.

Alice Neel (1900–1984) is one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century. She is known for her daringly honest and humanist approach to the figure that not only captures the truth of the individual, but also reflects the era in which she lived. At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World highlights the artist’s career-long commitment to depicting the human condition and her practice of painting people from many walks of life. This presentation focuses on her paintings of individuals from queer communities and those who were a part of their circle. The works on view will include paintings of politicians, philanthropists, writers, performers, and artists, as well as friends and neighbors—together forming a collective portrait that both embodies and complicates an understanding of the queer world of Neel’s moment and the artist’s place within it. As Als notes, this exhibition “will include not just portraits of gay people but those of theorists, activists, politicians, and so on who would qualify as queer by virtue of their different take in their given field and thus the world. So doing, they reflect Alice’s own interest in and commitment to difference.”