Fred Tomaselli

Blooms Disrupted, an exhibition of new and recent work by Fred Tomaselli, opens this Friday from 6-8pm at the gallery’s 48 Walker Street location. In Blooms Disrupted, the garden is Tomaselli’s primary subject, which he uses to consider the natural world as a counterweight to the urgent rush of news and media that so often interrupts our private realities. Inspired by visits to Robert Irwin’s gardens at the Getty in Los Angeles, and informed by his own history as an urban gardener, Tomaselli set out to create paintings that render nature not as a backdrop but as an immersive event in all of its awesome complexity. These intensely tactile and painterly works view the garden not only as a space for deep observation, but also as a laboratory in which a new vision of the natural world might be constructed, one that pushes against continued degradation and advocates for preservation and communal care. 🔗 Learn more about Fred Tomaselli and plan your visit to this upcoming exhibition via the link in bio. 📸: Installation view of Fred Tomaselli, Blue Olana, 2025. Acrylic, photo collage and resin on wood panel, 48 x 48 in, 121.9 x 121.9 cm. Photo by Greg Carideo. © Fred Tomaselli 2026. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. #FredTomaselli #JamesCohan #BloomsDisrupted @fredtomaselli

James Cohan is pleased to present Blooms Disrupted, an exhibition of new and recent work by Fred Tomaselli, on view from May 15 through June 27, 2026, at the gallery’s 48 Walker Street location. This is Tomaselli’s seventh solo exhibition with James Cohan. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist on Friday, May 15 from 6-8PM. For over forty years, Fred Tomaselli has invoked the power of nature through deftly constructed maximalist paintings and works on paper. Tomaselli’s singular painting approach fuses organic matter, photographic reproductions, and dense ornamentation into surfaces that seem to pulse with their own internal light. His work has always moved between registers: the microscopic and the cosmic, the botanical and the geometric, the careful study of the shape of nature and the vertigo of deep space. 🔗 Learn more about Fred Tomaselli and preview the upcoming exhibition via link in bio. © Fred Tomaselli, “Month of August (evening),” 2026 (detail). Acrylic, photo collage and resin on wood panel, 48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm). © Fred Tomaselli 2026. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. #FredTomaselli #JamesCohan #BloomsDisrupted @fredtomaselli

Fun, soggy NO KINGS DAY!

This being Gay Pride Month, and with the National Guard occupying the streets of Los Angeles, it might be a good day to remember Hibiscus. Born George Harris, he was the iconic anti Vietnam War protester placing a flower in a gun and then went on to found the psychedelic gay liberation theater collective known as the Cockettes. Hibiscus died of AIDS in 1982 but the struggle continues. (Photo by Bernie Boston)

“Stump”, 8x10”, is a tiny painting in a show of tiny paintings in a tiny gallery. Opens tomorrow, June 5th.

It’s snowing roses today.

Posted @withregram • @jamescohangallery See new work by Fred Tomaselli in All About 25, a group exhibition celebrating James Cohan’s 25th anniversary, on view at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location through July 25, 2025. Please note that our New York galleries will close today, Friday, May 23, at 3 PM for the holiday weekend and reopen on Tuesday, May 27. Known for his meticulously crafted paintings which explode with mesmerizing, richly detailed patterns, Fred Tomaselli’s maximalist works are oversaturated with conceptual and formal information that generates expansive layers of meaning. In Weed, 2025, Tomaselli draws direct inspiration from his garden, using a photo of an invasive plant as the basis for the background of his composition. Gathered leaves from the artist’s garden create a chimeric floral base layer underneath illustrative invasive plants, vines, pollen and weeds. As overlapping, filigreed vines and tissues connect leaves, and flowers bloom amongst them, a vivid, bountiful garden emerges—a portrait of hybridity, and of nature gone berserk. 🔗 Learn more about Fred Tomaselli’s current and upcoming projects, and discover the other artists of All About 25, via link in bio. 📸: FRED TOMASELLI, Weed, 2024, acrylic, leaves, photo collage and resin on wood panel, 30 x 24 in., 76.2 x 61 cm. Photo by Christopher Burke Studio. #FredTomaselli #Resin #Weed #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryPainting #JamesCohan #AllAbout25 #25thanniversary @fredtomaselli

June 14! Save the date. Help save the country!

Backyard this morning. At least they can’t cancel Spring.

April 4, 2025

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Amazing day marching in the HANDS OFF protest! Hundreds of thousands of people here and around the country marching against the fascist coup. The vibe has shifted.