![Presented alongside this group of drawings are four recent paintings, the very first works to come out of the artist’s...](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_1400,h_1400,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/ws-ropac/usr/images/feature_panels/image/5486/jl_1102_300dpi_feathered.jpg)
Presented alongside this group of drawings are four recent paintings, the very first works to come out of the artist’s newly established studio in Munich. A significant change from the energy and noise of New York City, this unfamiliar environment facilitated an experimental atmosphere for the artist and served as a unique source of inspiration for him at this time. The dialogue established between the two distinct series of paintings and drawings opens up a new perspective within this exhibition, highlighting the breadth of the American artist’s work.
Jonathan Lasker
An Internal Life with Moving Parts, 2023
Oil on canvas board
24 x 30 cm (9.45 x 11.81 in)
![Lasker’s unmistakable painterly language is based on a distinctive mark-making process, initially conceived during his studies at the California Institute...](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_1400,h_1400,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/ws-ropac/usr/images/feature_panels/image/5533/jl_1077_300dpi_feathered.jpg)
Jonathan Lasker
Untitled, 2012
Graphite and colored pencil on paper
76 x 56 cm (29.92 x 22.05 in)
![For his paintings and also this new series of drawings, exhibited for the first time, Lasker’s creative process commences with...](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_1400,h_1400,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/ws-ropac/usr/images/feature_panels/image/5534/jl_1078_300dpi_feathered.jpg)
For his paintings and also this new series of drawings, exhibited for the first time, Lasker’s creative process commences with sketches, intuitively capturing basic shapes as raw inspiration on paper. ‘I do a lot of sketching in my spiral-bound sketchbooks, and that is usually where the works start,’ he explains. These initial outlines, often realised freehand in a stream of consciousness, serve as the foundation for his thought-out compositions.
Jonathan Lasker
Untitled, 2012
Graphite, colored pencil and india ink on paper
76 x 56.5 cm (29.92 x 22.24 in)
— Jonathan Lasker
![Evoking perceptions of surface and depth, Lasker’s works convey a sense of figurative presence despite the viewer’s inability to truly...](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_1400,h_1400,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/ws-ropac/usr/images/feature_panels/image/5536/jl_1099_300dpi_feathered.jpg)
Jonathan Lasker
Pure Possibility, 2023
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 101.6 cm (30 x 40 in)
![‘Even though my works are abstract, I still consider them to be pictures, and they inspire recognition,’ the artist explains....](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_1400,h_1400,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/ws-ropac/usr/images/feature_panels/image/5537/jl_1100_300dpi_feathered.jpg)
Jonathan Lasker
Cultivated Scene with Parallel Metaphors, 2023
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 101.6 cm (30 x 40 in)
![To me, drawing is really graphite on paper because it’s conceptually what the image is about. It’s about the mark....](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_1400,h_1400,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/ws-ropac/usr/images/feature_panels/image/5541/jl_1080_300dpi_feathered.jpg)
— Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker
Untitled, 2014
Graphite and india ink on paper
56 x 76 cm (22.05 x 29.92 in)
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The Museum of Recent Art in Bucharest, Romania, will be holding a solo exhibition of American artist Jonathan Lasker's work starting February 20, 2024.