“Ofili makes paintings that will not let us be.  For more than two decades, the work of this British artist has dazzled and discomfited, seduced and unsettled, gliding effortlessly between high and low, among cultures, ricocheting off different racial stereotypes and religious beliefs.

His paintings mesmerize, whether with their opulent dotted surfaces or bawdy eroticism, their perfumed colors or their riffs on established masterpieces.”—Roberta Smith, The New York Times.

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“His work operates on multiple registers . . . it is as much about form as it is about vision and visuality, about presence and experience . . . [it] demands constantly that we as viewers reconsider anew that painting has multiple traditions and that the canons of art are yet to be foreclosed.” says Okwui Enwezor.

Chris Ofili’s first major museum survey in the United States was organized by the New Museum in New York. “For more than two decades,” Roberta Smith wrote in her review for The New York Times, “the work of this British artist has dazzled and discomfited, seduced and unsettled, gliding effortlessly between high and low, among cultures, ricocheting off different racial stereotypes and religious beliefs.”

“Paradise Lost” features paintings and drawings following Ofili’s previous exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in 2014. It includes recent paintings featuring vibrant characters, elements of landscape, and mythical references.

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