Veronika Pausova, Love Mime (detail), 2021, oil on canvas, 75 × 67 inches (190.50 × 170.18 cm)
Veronika Pausova
Veronika Pausova’s intricate and tactile paintings bring together constellations of everyday elements within fields of abstraction. Pausova articulates a psychological space where fragmented subjects intermingle, like the internal action of a brain’s synapses connecting the dots. This act is often uncomfortable; a thought experiment that is as awkward as it is essential.
Veronika Pausova was born in 1987 in Prague, Czech Republic. She currently lives and works in Monetville, Ontario, Canada. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2022, 2019, 2017); Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada (2022); Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, Canada (2021); The Sunday Painter, London, UK (2021); Parisian Laundry, Montréal (2018); Hunt Kastner, Prague (2018); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2018); Paramo Galeria, Guadalajara, Mexico (2016); Motel, Brooklyn, New York (2016); and SARDINE, Brooklyn, New York (2015). Select group shows include The Erling Kagge Collection, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2020); If I have a body, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (2019); On Anxiety, Cleve Carney Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (2018); An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario (2018); Line and Verse, Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2018); RBC 2017, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (2017); Sojourner Truth Parsons, Sean Steadman, Veronika Pausova, 11R, New York, NY (2017); Seek Professional Help, Bureau, New York, NY (2016); and Gesture Play, Simone Subal, New York, NY (2016).
Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun. Esker Foundation, Calgary. January 22 - June 25, 2022. Photo by John Dean.
Image courtesy of the artist, the Esker Foundation, Calgary, and Simone Subal Gallery, New York.
Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun. Esker Foundation, Calgary. January 22 - June 25, 2022. Photo by John Dean.
Image courtesy of the artist, the Esker Foundation, Calgary, and Simone Subal Gallery, New York.
Electrical Flower: Veronika Pausova and Anna Zemánková. Simone Subal Gallery, New York. May 13 - June 18, 2022.
Photo by Greg Carideo. Image courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York.
Electrical Flower: Veronika Pausova and Anna Zemánková. Simone Subal Gallery, New York. May 13 - June 18, 2022.
Photo by Greg Carideo. Image courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York.
“Pausova’s paintings depict maps of dense, detailed imagery that are both alluring and perplexing. In her paintings, layers of flat colour and implied texture create an intersecting dream space, where narrative and nonsense intertwine. The works share an intimacy that is alive with invention. As the painter Amy Sillman describes in her essay on the diagram, it is the saggy droop in the line that can’t be planned or the uneasy crop that pulls us in. “At finger’s end, beyond the graph, off the chart, in the realm of not-knowing, lay the weird unformed excess, the chora, not information.” Pausova’s works suggest a sense of structure that mirrors a failing circuit board, a poem on a page, or a cross section of a buzzing plant.”
– Katie Lyle
Electrical Flower: Veronika Pausova and Anna Zemánková. Simone Subal Gallery, New York. May 13 - June 18, 2022.
Photo by Greg Carideo. Image courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery.
If I have a body. Remai Modern, Saskatoon. May 31 - September 02, 2019.
Image courtesy of the artist, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, and Simone Subal Gallery, New York.
If I have a body. Remai Modern, Saskatoon. May 31 - September 02, 2019.
Image courtesy of the artist, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, and Simone Subal Gallery, New York.