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Marcus Jahmal: Match made in Heaven
Market Gallery, Chinatown NYC
Market Gallery presents Match made in Heaven, the final installment of Marcus Jahmal’s Chinatown NYC takeover. This exhibition brings together conceptual assemblage works and new paintings that explore religious themes with both reverence and defiance.
Henri Matisse once said, “All art worthy of the name is religious.” Jahmal’s latest works embody this idea, blending spirituality with raw, contemporary narratives. The show features three new paintings alongside charcoal drawings from 2019—eerily prescient works created just before the pandemic. Together, they trace a journey from uncertainty to transformation.
A Match Made in Heaven is a meditation on faith, prophecy, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Marcus Jahmal (b. 1990) is a self-taught painter, born and raised in Brooklyn, where he continues to live and work. His paintings are surreal, symbological narratives that exist as documents of our current moment, yet also embody a mythological timelessness. His work is charged with an intuitive sense of image and color to evoke the ways in which the personal belies larger implications of the universal and the mysterious. Jahmal’s practice draws from diverse sources including photographs, art history, dreams, and personal memories, and moves fluidly between genres to defy explicit categorization. Interiors, still life, landscape, and portraiture; figuration and abstraction–all populate his oeuvre and are united by his strong hand, sense of color, and a drive to push his art, and art history, forward.
Jahmal has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally, including a solo exhibition in Paris, titled GOMBO, curated by Loïc LeGall at CAC Passerelle Brest in 2019. Last year Jahmal presented a solo exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania, curated by Max Weintraub. Notable group exhibitions include: The Echo of Picasso, Museo Picasso Málaga, Malaga, Spain (2023); So let us all be citizens too, curated by Ebony L. Hayes, David Zwirner, London, England (2023); Fire Figure Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL (2022); Figurative Vocabularies, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (2022); The New American Galleries inaugural exhibition, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (2022); Artists for NYC, Hauser and Wirth, New York, NY (2020); 100 Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2020); and Disembodiment, organized by Mariane Ibrahim, UTA artist space, Los Angeles, CA (2019). His work is included in the permanent collections of the Allentown Art Museum, ICA Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Walker Art Museum, among others both private and public.
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Zora Sicher (b. 1995, New York) is an interdisciplinary artist/photographer from Brooklyn, New York City. Her practice predominantly explores the ever-changing presence of photography and the duality between its ancient processes and newfound ideas of digital image-making. Her current exploration conjoins imagery with poetry and video, creating sculptural pieces of work as installation. With a principal focus on the uncensored human body, she bridges the shifting terrain of photography, merging its identity as a means for reproduction to create slivers of truths that may not be replicable. After studying photography for two years at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Sicher left New York City in 2016 to study at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. She is currently based in New York City, and working on her first monograph of twelve years of photographic work set to be published in 2025.
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If you’ve ever passed through Adam Zhu’s Chinatown apartment you’ve likely seen the shed, sitting just outside his apartment on the neighboring roof, during some phase of its life as a semi-derelict structure.
Three months ago, Andrew Kass was hired to renovate the shed into a 11 x 16 gallery space. This show is the culmination of Andrews work as the contractor of the gallery and his practice as an artist whose primary material is disused space in New York City.
We are happy to announce our first exhibition “RENOVATION DISCO”, a presentation of artworks by Andrew Kass.
Andrew Kass (b. 1991) is an American conceptual artist who works in sculpture, installation, photographyand video. Kass often uses overlooked spaces and construction objects in his practice and explores ideasof redevelopment and abandonment as related to space in the city. He is best known for his non-commissioned public artworks and site specific projects in New York City, such as A Little About Lots(2021) and Light Work (2019).