Paula Scher’s Map Paintings Exhibited in New York
The hand-painted maps of Paula Scher are featured in an exhibition at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.
Pentagram is pleased to announce that Paula Scher's acclaimed map paintings will be presented in a new exhibition opening tonight at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York. The exhibition features both paintings and screenprints, including several works that are being shown for the first time, like Scher's latest painting, Antarctica, pictured above. The show is Scher's first collaboration with Wolkowitz and remains on view through February 18.
In her paintings, Scher renders information and data culled from headlines, maps and diagrams in madcap fields of hand-drawn typography. Obsessive, opinionated and more than a little personal, the maps provide an exuberant portrait of contemporary information in all its complexity and subjectivity. Scher's new book of her paintings, MAPS, was published last fall and recently went into its second printing.
Join us for tonight's opening at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery from 6 to 8 pm. The gallery is located at 505 West 24th Street, New York City.
