Sat, Apr 11
|170 Forsyth St
Beauty: Tom Wolf and Friends
Featuring: Louise Fishman Sharon Garbe Joanne Greenbaum Duncan Hannah David Henderson George Hirose Petr Hlinomaz Curt Hoppe Laura Karetzky Jane Kaufman Willy Lenski Fernando Ruiz Lorenzo Elizabeth Murray Walter Robinson Hal Saulson Alan Sonfist Jim Sullivan Kate Teale Tom Wolf
Time & Location
Apr 11, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
170 Forsyth St, 170 Forsyth St, New York, NY 10002, USA
About the event
BEAUTY: TOM WOLF AND FRIENDS
When Ki Smith visited Tom Wolf’s studio, he said, “I like these. I would show them. When would you like to show?” He reacted to Tom’s unique paintings, which combine digital photographs with acrylic paint, sheets of Plexiglas, and transparent, colored urethane.. The results have luminous color and deep space, while still affirming the surface of the object and being rooted in real-world experience—works that many observers react to with the word “beautiful.” Ki imagined a show of Tom’s small paintings in frames he makes,—but the idea of filling two floors of the Ki Smith Gallery with small framed paintings seemed like too much, so Tom proposed that he invite some artist friends to show works alongside his. The exhibition, “Beauty: Tom Wolf and Friends,” is the result. In Sharon Garbe’s Cave of Humors, a geometric wood lattice bars the entrance to a cone of dark…