Fredrik Værslev: The Joy of Painting
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, January 29th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, March 27th
In the winter of 2026, the Neubauer Collegium will host The Joy of Painting, the first institutional exhibition in the U.S. of Norwegian artist Fredrik Værslev. The show will bring together eight large-scale paintings, each representing a distinct body of work and conceived as an exercise in geometric abstraction. One giant painting reduces the Japanese flag to color and form, for instance; another calls to mind a speckled stretch of sunshade. A scrunched-up bit of canvas resembles a parted curtain, and a work from Værslev’s “Terrazzo” series invokes the spirit of Jackson Pollock. Taken as a whole, the paintings on view showcase Værslev’s systematic interrogation of abstract art as well as the many methods through which abstraction can be produced. The rigor of Værslev’s formal language notwithstanding, the exhibition is a heartfelt homage to the pleasures of making one’s mark, paintbrush and palette in hand.
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