Jonathan Lasker Exhibition Surveys Abstract Painting Evolution at Greene Naftali

Greene Naftali gallery in New York presented a survey exhibition of Jonathan Lasker's work titled 'Born Yesterday: Drawing into Painting, 1987–2020' from September 10 to October 23, 2021. The show featured approximately 16 paintings demonstrating Lasker's systematic approach to abstraction, where he transforms sketches into finished works through a deliberate process. His paintings incorporate diverse references including comics, textiles, and symbolic forms within structured compositions of gesture, line, and texture. The exhibition highlighted Lasker's four-decade exploration of abstraction's capacity to convey content rather than purely formal concerns, positioning his work between modernist and postmodernist traditions. The survey also noted his influence on subsequent generations of painters.