INDEPENDENT
May 8-11, 2025
For its seventh participation in Independent, Off Paradise is pleased to debut Rising, a three-person presentation of new or rarely seen works by Sylvia Fragoso (b. 1962), Mitchell Charbonneau (b. 1994), and Maximilian Schubert (b. 1983).
Since 1984, Fragoso has worked at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, California, a vital and progressive studio for artists with developmental disabilities. Over the past forty years, as their longest tenured artist, she has produced hundreds of delicate clay sculptures. Often tributes to the memories of her childhood home and spiritual spaces, Fragoso’s mysterious towers topped with crucifixes reflect her devout Catholicism. Rising marks Fragoso’s East Coast debut and her first time showing with the gallery.
In Rising, Charbonneau’s metal reliefs imprint the walls with the cold, matte surface of hammered metal, evoking the dense rawness of a subterranean refuge. Molded from sections of his childhood home, these works transform concrete into richly textured metal forms. For the first time, Charbonneau debuts this series—Foundations—at a monumental scale in lead. With its soft, dense opaqueness, this Foundation, one of the artist’s largest works to date, reads almost like a life-size portrait of the “sitter.”
A suite of luminous “canvases” from Schubert’s newest “Untitled” series offers a stark contrast. Using the old master technique of glazing—applying thin layers to build color, depth, and light—Schubert creates works made entirely from poured, translucent polyurethane. They are cast urethane resin objects—hybrids, really, of painting and sculpture that refuse to cohere into one or the other.
Rising runs May 8-11, 2025 at Independent.
To see a Preview, please contact the gallery at paradise@offparadise.com.
VIP Preview Day:
Thursday, May 8, 11am – 8pm
Public Fair Days:
Friday, May 9, 11am – 7am
Saturday, May 10, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, May 11, 11am – 6pm
For tickets and information on attending the fair, please visit independenthq.com
THE SALON BY NADA AND THE COMMUNITY
October 17-20, 2024
Off Paradise is delighted to announce its participation in the inaugural edition of The Salon by NADA and The Community from October 17-20, 2024. The gallery will debut a dual presentation of entirely new works by Maximilian Schubert (b. 1983) and Mitchell Charbonneau (b. 1994), marking the artists’ first time in a two-person show together and first showing in Paris.
The Salon by NADA and The Community
30 bis rue de Paradis
75010 Paris, France
Thursday, October 17, 10am–6pm
Open to the Public:
Thursday, October 17, 6–8pm
Friday, October 18, 11am–8pm
Saturday, October 19, 11am–8pm
Sunday, October 20, 11am–6pm
To book your complimentary admission, please visit thesalon.paris
INDEPENDENT NEW YORK
May 9-12, 2024
For its fifth participation in Independent New York, Off Paradise is pleased to debut Maximilian Schubert’s new series of works, “Untitled (Smoke),” in a solo presentation on view from today through May 12, 2024.
“Schubert’s luminous “canvases” are cast urethane resin objects—hybrids, really, of painting and sculpture that refuse to cohere into one or the other. Comprising layer upon translucent layer of poured, pigmented resin, they evoke, with the most subtle of means, the ever-shifting palette of the sky over New York City.” writes Nancy Spector.
In early June of last year, uncontrolled fires blazed across Canada, turning New York’s skies into hazy shades of yellows, greys, and oranges. Iconic landmarks disappeared behind grey veils of smoke, wafts of yellow oxides, pyrrole reds, and burnt umber sunsets filtering into acrid oranges and pinks. The city lights pricked at the night like shimmering static. In fear and awe, we looked out at a city transformed by a fugitive and sinister beauty.
INDEPENDENT 15 x 15
May 9-12, 2024
Off Paradise is delighted to also participate in Independent’s 15th anniversary exhibition with Peter Nadin.
Co-curated by Independent founder Elizabeth Dee and Matthew Higgs as a special anniversary initiative, 15×15: Independent 2010-2024 features artists and galleries who have made a significant impact on Independent’s history.
The gallery is presenting “Red Figure Walking to Red Boat (Volcano Erupting)” and “Sharkey’s Cow Beneath a Culvert,” the two companion paintings to Centre Pompidou’s “Curt and Mert Landscaping” from The Distance from a Lemon to Murder (2020) series.
INDEPENDENT 20TH CENTURY
September 7 – 10, 2023
Off Paradise is pleased to announce our participation in Independent 20th Century. The gallery will exhibit historic works by Peter Nadin (b. 1954, Bromborough, U.K.). A key figure of the downtown New York art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, Nadin is a painter, sculptor and poet whose work explores the practice of mark- and image-making as fundamental, evolutionary human functions.
Off Paradise will present for the first time in over three decades View II or The Artist, (1986), a striking self-portrait of the artist, and the anchor piece of the 1987 “Views” exhibition at Brooke Alexander Gallery, and, subsequently, of “Peter Nadin: Recent Work and Notes on Six Series,” his retrospective at Yale Center for British Art in 1992.
On loan from a Distinguished American Collection, this important work is entering the collection of a major European Institution.
This presentation in the historical setting of the landmark Battery Maritime Building is conceived as a send-off celebration for View II or The Artist to its new home.
The gallery will also debut a selection of watercolor and pastel works on paper from “Views II” (1987), the companion series to “Views” (1986-88), presented here for the first time since their creation.
Nadin’s work is in public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Yale Center for British Art.
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VIP Preview Day:
Thursday, September 7, 11am – 8pm
Public Fair Days:
Friday, September 8, 12 – 8pm
Saturday, September 9, 12 – 8pm
Sunday, September 10, 11am – 6pm
For tickets and information on attending the fair, please visit independenthq.com
INDEPENDENT NEW YORK
May 11-14, 2023
We are delighted to announce our return to Independent New York, taking place at Spring Studios from May 11-14, 2023.
Off Paradise will present Two Minutes to Midnight, a two-person exhibition debuting new work by Michael St. John and Mitchell Charbonneau. A rigorous chronicler of contemporary American culture, St. John explores notions of violence, tragedy, narcissism, indifference, and consumerism through strategies of appropriation and assemblage. Charbonneau’s sculptural interventions similarly deconstruct and recast everyday commercial objects, from folding chairs to air fresheners, with material exactitude and visual wit.
VIP Preview Day:
Thursday, May 11, 10am – 8pm
Public Fair Days:
Friday, May 12, 11am – 8pm
Saturday, May 13, 11am – 8pm
Sunday, May 14, 11am – 6pm
For tickets and information on attending the fair, please visit independenthq.com
INDEPENDENT NEW YORK
May 5-8, 2022
We are delighted to announce our return to Independent New York, taking place at Spring Studios from May 5-8, 2022.
The gallery will present new and historical work by Peter Nadin and Maximilian Schubert.
VIP Preview Day:
Thursday, May 5, 11am – 8pm
Public Fair Days:
Friday, May 6, 12 – 7pm
Saturday, May 7, 12 – 7pm
Sunday, May 8, 12 – 6pm
For tickets and information on attending the fair, please visit independenthq.com
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INDEPENDENT NEW YORK
September 9-12, 2021
We are pleased to announce our first-time participation in the Independent Art Fair, taking place at the Battery Maritime Building from September 9-12, 2021.
For Off Paradise’s Independent debut, the gallery will show new and previously unseen work by Scott Covert, Maximilian Schubert and Mitchell Charbonneau.
The exhibition will explore definitions of the body, primarily in its absence, at this marvel of a venue:
“The Battery Maritime Building’s unique design has come to define it as a landmark. Built in the Beaux-Arts Structural Expressionist architectural style, the building’s exposed trusses and rivets contribute to its ornate splendour. A bastion of civic and heroic architecture, it recalls the grandeur of 19th century World Fair halls, and “it is probable that no building designed in similar style will ever again be erected in the City of New York.”
VIP Preview Day:
Thursday, September 9, 11am – 8pm
Public Fair Days:
Friday, September 10, 12 – 7pm
Saturday, September 11, 12 – 7pm
Sunday, September 12, 12 – 6pm
For tickets and information on attending the fair, please visit independenthq.com
Installation view of Off Paradise at the Independent Art Fair, September 9-12, 2021. Photograph by Guillaume Ziccarelli.