Fugue 

Bockley Gallery is pleased to open our fifth solo exhibition with Stuart Nielsen. Fugue is an intimate survey that celebrates five decades of the artist’s career, bringing together primarily unexhibited works exemplary of five central motifs within the artist’s dynamic vocabulary. Whether in singular or combined use, from small to large scale, and across media in drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture – we experience the harlequin pattern, the number seven, stacked circles, the human hand, and the human figure. The foundation of each works’ becoming is the artist’s honed relationship to the properties and potentials of color and matter in space and time. A rigorous, inquiring, and polyphonic practice comes through, with felt inspirations from the natural world’s geometry and repetition, research-based sciences across fields of knowledge, and importantly, the interior, subconscious and unknown realms. 

Opening-Day Events
January 18, 2025

Artist Walkthrough, 5–5:30 pm

Reception, 5:30–7 pm