Anna Glantz
Knowing what you know
February 1, 2025 - March 8, 2025
“I have not been doing very much at pictures for about three weeks. But— I have been painting just the same. I've painted the kitchen chairs, the water pump, the step-on can, and the outside of the kitchen sink, a combination of jade green and dove grey.”
—Ella Southworth
Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the LA-based painter Anna Glantz.
For her second show at the gallery, Glantz will present a suite of new paintings, which all follow a landscape format. Loosely connected by a fluctuating horizon line, the works are also characterized by dense, built up surfaces, a similarity of scale, and a sense of sculptural embeddedness. Increasingly mysterious, what she depicts has almost more to do with structure and materiality than image production, which is nevertheless an important concern, but which has receded further from the threshold of comprehension than ever.
Anna Glantz (b. 1989, Concord, MA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Lichens, The Approach, London, 2023; Cement Answers, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022; and Baby Grand, The Approach, London, 2020. Recent group exhibitions include Trespass sweetly urged, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, 2024; A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022; The Stands-Ins: Figurative Painting from the Collection, Zabludowicz Collection, London, 2022; Therein / Thereof / Thereto, Standard (OSLO), Oslo, 2021; and A Love Letter to a Nightmare, Petzel Gallery, New York, 2020.
Old Screen, 2025. Oil on dyed canvas over panel, 21 x 35 in (53.3 x 88.9 cm)
Anchoress, 2025. Oil on dyed canvas over panel, 28 x 42 in (71.1 x 106.7 cm)
Affections Hover, 2025. Oil on dyed canvas over panel, 23 x 31 in (58.4 x 78.7 cm)
Affections Hover, detail
Cup, 2025. Oil on dyed canvas over panel, 23 x 33 1/2 in (58.4 x 85.1 cm)
Laguna, 2025. Oil on dyed canvas over panel. 27 x 41 in (68.6 x 104.1 cm)
Woolly, 2025. Oil on dyed canvas over panel, 21 x 35 in (53.3 x 88.9 cm)
Thinking of Somewhere Else, 2025. Oil on dyed canvas over panel, 19 x 32 in (48.3 x 81.3 cm)
Thinking of Somewhere Else, detail
Silver, 2025. Oil on dyed canvas over panel, 25 x 31 in (63.5 x 78.7 cm)
Silver, detail