Petzel Gallery

For High Line Art, Derek Fordjour presents ARCHETYPES, a series of painted bronze sculptures depicting a boxer, server, and burlesque dancer installed between 25th and 26th Streets. Together, the works consider the historic use of the black body as a vehicle for social mobility within economies of entertainment, labor, and performance. The works are now on view through April 2027. Photo: Derek Fordjour, ARCHETYPES, the High Line, New York, 2026. Photos by Thomas Barratt. #derekfordjour #highlineart #thehighline #chelsea #nyc #publicart

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Saturday for Emma Webster & Josephine Halvorson’s conversation at Petzel. The full talk is now available to watch via the link in bio. Photos by Shirene Anand. #emmawebster #petzel #artisttalk #mustwatch

Seth Price’s new series at Petzel is on view through June 20, 2026. Seth Price 📍520 W 25th Street ️🗓 On view until June 20, 2026 Artwork: Seth Price, “Untitled,” 2026, Oil paint and UV-cured inkjet on sealed lead, Unframed: 12 x 12 1/8 x 1/4 in, 30.5 x 30.9 x 0.6 cm, Framed: 13 x 13 1/8 x 1 ¼ in, 5.11 x 5.17 x .49 cm. #sethprice #petzel #paintings #mustsee #artist

Emma Webster’s new body of work presents her take on pastoral painting: rolling hills, livestock, and flora are rendered as fantastical scenes where the idyllic becomes mystical, and the provincial becomes complex, even uneasy. “A broken 3D scan of a plant captures parts of the background, the air around it, the emptiness, and gives it a solid, virtual weight and volume. These heavy representations of nothingness are brought into the virtual studio and manipulated as material. Presence and absence are equal: a branch adorned with green leaves and white nothings,” writes Dean Kissick. Emma Webster: Rues and Leaves Them Alone 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 On view until June 6, 2026 Artwork: Emma Webster, “Sapling,” 2026, Oil on linen, 84 x 60 in, 213.3 x 152.4 cm. Photo 1: Marten Elder; Photo 2: Detail, Photo by Marten Elder. #emmawebster #petzel #paintings #interactive #digital #mustsee #nycshows

Seth Price’s new series at Petzel is on view through June 20, 2026. Seth Price 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 On view until June 20, 2026 Artwork: Seth Price, “Opening the Studio to the Inside,” 2026, Aluminum powder, enamel, acrylic polymers, and UV print on aluminum composite, 57.75 x 57.75 x 1.125 in, 146.7 146.7 2.9 cm. #sethprice #petzel #paintings #mustsee #artist

This evening, Monday, May 18, the Jewish Museum will host a special screening and panel discussion featuring a conversation between artist Yael Bartana and curator Nato Thompson, moderated by Darsie Alexander, Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator at the Jewish Museum, at 6:30pm. Tickets are available at thejewishmuseum.org. Throughout May 2026, Yael Bartana's “Farewell” is on view nightly as part of Times Square Arts' Midnight Moment, synchronized across nearly 100 electronic billboards from 11:57pm to midnight. The work captures the moments leading up to the departure of a fictional generation ship destined for remote galaxies — humanity bidding Earth goodbye in a choreographed ritual, the ship emerging as a messianic vessel shortly before midnight. Drawing on Labanotation, a movement system developed by choreographer Rudolf von Laban, Bartana combines expressionistic dance with collective and ritualistic movement, navigating the liminal space between our world and an unknown future. Artist Talk and Screening: Yael Bartana 📍The Jewish Museum, Wilf Family Salon 🗓 Monday, May 18, 6:30–8:00pm Yael Bartana: Farewell 📍Broadway between 41st & 49th Streets 🗓 On view until May 31, 2026 Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am #yaelbartana #thejewishmusuem #timesquare #artisttalk

In Emma Webster’s current exhibition “Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone,” viewers encounter a mythical space of pagan animal gods, or, the land of the dead, or someplace else. Like the places of visions, it cannot be represented perfectly, only proposed. “Different kinds of space and modes of representing space are combined, collaged and smeared together, then rendered as images that break the conventions of landscape painting and illusionistic space. They are spaces that cannot really be understood. They are more like propositions, like the hypothetical spaces of complex algebra. Like when a mathematician is trying to solve a problem and sees the problem manifested as colors and forms before him. When darkness falls, the landscapes are spotlighted harshly by an unknown source. Bright light pours down and spreads. The moon, when it appears, is always full in the sky. It is always a full moon, a magical night—or perhaps it is not the moon at all. Perhaps a new star has appeared in the night sky,” writes Dean Kissick. The exhibition is on view through June 6, 2026, at Petzel. Emma Webster: Rues and Leaves Them Alone 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 On view until June 6, 2026 Artwork: Emma Webster, “Nettles and Nectar,” 2026, Oil on linen, 60 x 84 in, 152.4 x 213.3 cm. #emmawebster #petzel #paintings #interactive #digital #mustsee #nycshows

Emma Webster’s current exhibition “Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone” features chiaroscuro horses, deer, and trees – pastoral subjects as old as art itself. New York Times’s writer, Travis Diehl notes, “The products of this work flow, which mixes high-tech and archaic media, are large, classically minded paintings, like the archly titled 'Mother and Child,' depicting a cow and her calf. It almosts feels sarcastic.” Read the full article here: petzel.com/attachment/en/… #emmawebster #petzel #newyorktimes #mustsee #exhibition

Join ADAA for a free evening of art, discovery, and music in Chelsea. This free, after-hours event invites the public to explore dozens of exhibitions at 37 ADAA member galleries, including Petzel—all open late until 8:00 p.m. ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk 2026 📍New York, NY 🗓 May 14, 2026, from 5–8pm Photo: Petzel Gallery. #adaa #gallerywalk #petzel #chelsea #artist

Artist Tschabalala Self’s current presentation continues her ongoing investigation into the emotional, physical, and psychological states that animate the human figure. Rooted in scripture, “The Anointed Head,” 2026, draws on Psalm 23:5 — “You anoint my head with oil” — a passage that symbolizes God’s intimate care, protection, and blessing, acting as a shepherd who heals and protects his sheep from harm, insects, and distress. This work reveals a feminine figure and her shadow. Her head is illuminated as she looks upward—outlined in light—protected by a force greater than herself. The Viewing Room: Tschabalala Self 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 On view until May 16, 2026 Artwork: Tschabalala Self, “The Anointed Head,” 2026, Acrylic paint, oil paint, colored pencil, pencil, fabric, thread, painted canvas painted linen on canvas, 68 x 50 x 2 in, 172.7 x 127 x 5.1 cm. #tschabalalaself #petzel #artist #mustsee #paintings

Artist Tschabalala Self’s current presentation continues her ongoing investigation into the emotional, physical, and psychological states that animate the human figure. Rooted in scripture, “The Anointed Head,” 2026, draws on Psalm 23:5 — “You anoint my head with oil” — a passage that symbolizes God’s intimate care, protection, and blessing, acting as a shepherd who heals and protects his sheep from harm, insects, and distress. This work reveals a feminine figure and her shadow. Her head is illuminated as she looks upward—outlined in light—protected by a force greater than herself. The Viewing Room: Tschabalala Self 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 On view until May 16, 2026 Artwork: Tschabalala Self, “The Anointed Head,” 2026, Acrylic paint, oil paint, colored pencil, pencil, fabric, thread, painted canvas painted linen on canvas, 68 x 50 x 2 in, 172.7 x 127 x 5.1 cm. #tschabalalaself #petzel #artist #mustsee #paintings

OPENING TOMORROW Petzel is pleased to present Seth Price, an exhibition of new paintings by the artist, on view from May 13 through June 20, 2026, at 520 West 25th Street. His new series shifts toward minimalism and abstraction, and employs a reduced language of circles and squares inspired by Taoist cosmological diagrams. Using paints he prepares from powdered iron, steel, and aluminum, Price makes brushstrokes, fields, and spills on panels of lead, aluminum composite, and cold-rolled steel. A photograph of the composition in process is fed into software that uses it to generate algorithmic patterns, which Price has called “dreams of the alien technical world.” Seth Price 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 6–8 p.m. Artwork: Seth Price, “Untitled,” 2026, Direct print on lead, 18.0625 x 18.0625 x 1 in, 45.9 x 45.9 x 2.5 cm. #sethprice #petzel #prints #mustsee #artist

This Week at Petzel The Viewing Room: Tschabalala Self 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 On view May 12–16, 2026 Seth Price 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 Opening May 13, 2026 Opening reception: 6–8pm ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk 2026 📍New York, NY 🗓 May 14, 2026, from 5–8pm Emma Webster in Conversation with Josephine Halvorson 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 May 16, 2026, at 1pm 📧 RSVP to press@petzel.com to reserve your seat Photos: (1) Tschabalala Self, “Kana,” 2026, Acrylic paint, fabric, thread, colored pencil, painted canvas on canvas, 96 x 48 x 5 1/2 in, 243.8 x 121.9 x 14 cm; (2) Detail of: Seth Price, “Untitled,” 2026, Direct print on lead, 18.0625 x 18.0625 x 1 in, 45.9 x 45.9 x 2.5 cm; (3) Petzel Gallery; (4) Emma Webster. Photo: Joshua White; Josephine Halvorson. Photo: Justine Kurland. #petzel #artistalk #exhibition #adaa #mustsee #nycshows

In Emma Webster’s current exhibition “Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone,” viewers are invited on a journey through a mythical space. “These are dreams of animals in dreams of landscapes. They are symbols of animals, or mythical animals that only exist in our minds. They bring to mind the animals painted on the walls of caves: those too were animated by flashing light; those too were highly stylized; those too were drawn over with lines and unnatural patterns; those too followed the contours of cave walls and blended figure and ground, flattening material and immaterial spaces; those too did not have eyes; those scenes also rarely featured humans; those too evoked an imaginary space that existed in the collective imagination,” writes Dean Kissick. “Mother and Child,” 2026, pictures two bovine figures — a large cow and a nursing calf — rendered with the same uncanny stillness that defines Webster's painted worlds. The figures appear simultaneously naturalistic and artificial, their smoothed, luminous surfaces evoking painted or ceramic sculpture rather than living animals, as though nature itself has been caught in the act of becoming an object. The scene is at once tender and disquieting — a primal bond held in suspension. Emma Webster: Rues and Leaves Them Alone 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 On view until June 6, 2026 Emma Webster in Conversation with Josephine Halvorson 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 1 pm RSVP to press@petzel.com Artwork: Emma Webster, “Mother and Child,” 2026, Oil on linen, 30 x 40 in, 76.2 x 101.6 cm. Photo: Marten Elder. #emmawebster #petzel #paintings #interactive #digital #mustsee #nycshows #motherandchild

Yael Bartana’s work “Farewell” captures the moments leading up to the departure of a fictional generation ship destined for remote galaxies. Before embarking on a redemptive journey humanity bids Earth goodbye in a choreographed ritual, hoping for survival in leaving the planet to heal itself. Shortly before midnight, allegorically running out of time, the ship emerges as a messianic vessel. The dancers mirror the kinetic movement of the ship as well as the human endeavor behind it. Their gestures navigate the liminal space between our world and the unknown future. The presentation is now on view through May 31, 2026, nightly from 11:57pm to midnight in Times Square. Yael Bartana: Farewell 📍Broadway between 41st & 49th Streets 🗓 On view until May 31, 2026 Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am Artwork: Yael Bartana, “Farewell,” Single-channel video installation. Video by: Tatyana Tenenbaum. #yaelbartana #film #artist #timessquare #mustsee

On the occasion of the exhibition, “Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone,” artist Emma Webster will be joined in conversation with Josephine Halvorson, Professor of Art & Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University, on Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 1pm at Petzel. RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Emma Webster in Conversation with Josephine Halvorson 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 1pm #emmawebster #artisttalk #petzel

Petzel is pleased to present the seventh installment of The Viewing Room, a series that spotlights specially curated works across media and genre by gallery artists, open to the public for a limited time. This iteration will feature new paintings by Hudson Valley-based artist Tschabalala Self. In conjunction with The Viewing Room, Self currently has a work on the façade of the New Museum in New York. In the fall, she will unveil a sculpture on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. On view from May 12 through May 16, 2026, Self’s presentation continues the artist’s ongoing investigation into the emotional, physical, and psychological states that animate the human figure. Her work is dedicated to figuration. She constructs depictions of predominantly Black figures using a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, traversing different artistic and craft traditions. The formal and conceptual aspects of Self’s work seek to expand her critical inquiry into selfhood and the human experience. Across this new suite of works, each figure inhabits a distinct interior condition — states of grace, vulnerability, and spiritual protection rendered through Self’s characteristic fusion of stitch, textile assemblage, and paint. The works draw on vernacular language, scripture, and embodied experience to locate the universal within the deeply particular. Shown in unison, the paintings engage varied iterations of a shared reckoning with what it means to exist fully within one’s own body and one’s own life. The Viewing Room: Tschabalala Self 📍520 W 25th Street ️🗓 On view May 12–16, 2026 Artwork: Tschabalala Self, “Creek,” 2026, Acrylic paint, oil paint, colored pencil, fabric, thread, painted on canvas, painted linen on canvas, 84 x 72 x 2 in, 213.4 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm. #tschabalalaself #petzel #artist #mustsee #paintings

In a recent interview with Brainard Carey for Yale Radio, artist Nicola Tyson reflects on returning to charcoal, her show “NEED,” which was on view at Petzel March 12–April 25, 2026, and her process. Listen here: museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/nic…

Petzel is pleased to present Seth Price, an exhibition of new paintings by the artist, on view from May 13 through June 20, 2026, at 520 West 25th Street. Price has long explored the relationship between material and immaterial through sculpture, photography, video, and, in the past decade, painting. His new series shifts toward minimalism and abstraction, and employs a reduced language of circles and squares inspired by Taoist cosmological diagrams. Using paints he prepares from powdered iron, steel, and aluminum, Price makes brushstrokes, fields, and spills on panels of lead, aluminum composite, and cold-rolled steel. A photograph of the composition in process is fed into software that uses it to generate algorithmic patterns, which Price has called “dreams of the alien technical world.” Two of the works feature an exterior view of the artist’s studio reflected in a metallic orb that could be an insect eye, a concealed surveillance cam, or a world unto itself. Price has written, “Only a painting can put human action and machine action into a single plane.” An excerpt from Price’s latest record, Inner Storm (Dead Mind Records, 2026), will play in the gallery space at regular intervals. Seth Price 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓 Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 6–8 p.m. Artwork: Detail of: Seth Price, “Opening the Studio to the Inside,” 2026, Aluminum powder, enamel, acrylic polymers, and UV print on aluminum composite, 57.75 x 57.75 x 1.125 in, 146.7 146.7 2.9 cm. #sethprice #petzel #prints #mustsee #artist