Diana Al-Hadid's New York Gallery Debut in Lost Paradise at Marianne Boesky

Diana Al-Hadid joined Marianne Boesky Gallery and debuted there in the summer of 2011 with the group exhibition Lost Paradise, featuring Mathias Kessler and Julião Sarmento. The Syria-born, Ohio-raised artist previously had New York solo shows at Perry Rubenstein Gallery after her 2006 debut at the Bronx Museum. Her mixed-media sculpture Trace of a Fictional Third, notable for its large scale and layered textures, explores themes of arrested time and motion through cascading, dripping forms that evoke liquidity and flow. This work marks an early venture into figuration, with draped, corporeal shapes carrying spectral, ghostly undertones. Al-Hadid's earlier pieces often depicted collapsing towers and fragile machines, using lustrous materials to capture structures in moments of implosion. The exhibition ran from July 7 to August 5, 2011, at 509 West 24th Street in New York City.