Richard Serra and Mark Grotjahn at the Gagosian Britannia Street

The Gagosian Gallery on Britannia Street in London currently has an exhibition of Richard Serra and Mark Grotjahn, running from now until the end of July. Mark Grotjahn is exhibiting new "butterfly" paintings as defined by the Gagosian Gallery:

In Grotjahn's first "butterfly paintings," clusters of vibrant, gradated triangular forms were anchored to vertical tangents, vehicles by which to treat problems in classical perspective such as dual and multiple vanishing points. As he continues to mine this hieratic motif -- which over the last decade has yielded extensive permutations that invoke narratives central to modernist painting, from the utopian vision of Russian Constructivism to the hallucinatory images of Op Art – the allusions to the natural world have ceded to more specific aesthetic issues such as the monochrome, the serial image, and the sublime. Increasingly, he has restricted his use of color, moving through phases of blue and black, and now to red and yellow. In the new paintings he has closely subdivided the "rays", making the chromatic distinctions ever more nuanced.

A single sculpture by Richard Serra will be on display, his thin metal wall from 2007, Fernando Pessoa. This exhibition comes after two recent exhibitions at various other Gagosian galleries. The full press release is here.