Independent 2026 Gregg Bordowitz and David Hartt

Press Release

Gregg Bordowitz (b. 1964) and David Hartt (b. 1967) are both artists with rich practices that encompass conceptual and object-based activities, as well as historical and theoretical writing. Over the last half-decade, Bordowitz has shifted emphasis somewhat to focus on printmaking, sculpture, and installation, with acclaimed recent exhibitions at The Brick (Los Angeles, 2025), Camden Art Centre (London, 2024), and Bonner Kunstverein (Bonn, 2024). In each of these institutional settings, Bordowitz presented examples of the monotypes and wall-hanging cloud sculptures that CvsD will present at Independent. Bordowitz was awarded the Philip Guston Rome Prize for 2026–2027. In counterpoint with these works on paper and relief sculptures, Hartt will hang a large scale tapestry titled The Histories (after Church), version with xenoformed atmosphere/ Rayleigh scattering spectrum shift, drawn from a three-part series originally exhibited in sequence across multiple venues including Beth Sholom Synagogue (Philadelphia, 2019), Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago, 2020) and Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2021), and Philadelphia Museum of Art (2021). Exhibiting together for the first time, these two artists are major figures in transdisciplinary art, rigorous thinkers with visionary mindsets, as will be evident in the aesthetic and intellectual continuities between their distinct works, which are resplendent and multidimensional.