What happens when two of the most provocative voices in contemporary art take over adjacent gallery spaces in Chelsea? At Gagosian’s 24th Street footprint, visitors encounter a compelling dialogue between physical sculpture, photographic portraiture, and modern surveillance culture.
While Jordan Wolfson debuts new wall sculptures made of polished aluminum and embedded imagery at 555 West 24th Street, Deana Lawson presents mirror-framed photographs, holograms, and surveillance stills in her first solo exhibition with Gagosian at 541 West 24th Street.
1. Jordan Wolfson
Location: 555 West 24th Street, Chelsea, New York
Dates: September 18 – October 24, 2026
Overview & Themes
Known for his unsettling animatronic sculptures, VR works, and conceptual interventions, Jordan Wolfson presents a new body of uniformly scaled wall sculptures for his debut New York exhibition with Gagosian.
- Materiality & Form: The works utilize polished aluminum substrates as structural anchors, creating reflective, industrial surfaces that interact directly with gallery lighting and viewer movement.
- Collaged Visuals: Embedded within the metal panels are selected color and black-and-white photographs—sourced both online and from personal archives—exploring internet subcultures, consumer iconography, and human emotion.
- Spatial Tension: By fusing physical metal structures with intimate, found imagery, Wolfson explores how digital consumption alters human empathy, presence, and spatial perception.
2. Deana Lawson
Location: 541 West 24th Street, Chelsea, New York
Dates: September 10 – October 24, 2026
Overview & Themes
In her first solo exhibition with Gagosian, Hugo Boss Prize-winning artist Deana Lawson expands her celebrated photographic language into new mediums, including holograms and glowing black mirror-framed compositions.
- The Edge Control Series: Lawson debuts selections from Edge Control, a body of work centered around blue-green surveillance stills from beauty supply stores. The series takes its title from the hair product used for smoothing hairline edges, turning commercial security footage into a meditation on gaze, race, and personhood.
- Holograms & Mirror Frames: Surrounding her signature staged portraits and surveillance imagery with custom black mirrors and holographic projections, Lawson creates layered visual portals that challenge traditional ideas of control, privacy, and spiritual presence.
- Personhood & Surveillance: The exhibition examines how black bodies are represented, monitored, and exalted, shifting between institutional surveillance and intimate, sacred portraiture.
Why These Exhibitions Matter Together
Presented side-by-side at Gagosian Chelsea, Wolfson and Lawson offer complementary yet distinct inquiries into how technology, surveillance, and media shape modern identity:
- Wolfson examines the psychological impact of digital image saturation and industrial materialism.
- Lawson reclaims the camera and security lens to explore autonomy, personhood, and spiritual majesty.
Together, they form one of the season’s most essential, thought-provoking art stops in West Chelsea.
Exhibition & Visitor Details
- Venue: Gagosian (West 24th Street)
- Addresses:
- Deana Lawson: 541 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
- Jordan Wolfson: 555 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
- On View: Through October 24, 2026
- Admission: Free and open to the public
- Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
