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Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present ILL (nature paintings), Donald Moffett鈥檚 seventh solo show with the gallery. The exhibition captures Moffett鈥檚 continued conceptual exploration of nature through abstract and organic forms. Over the last several years, Moffett鈥檚 consideration and examination of the subject has expanded鈥攆ueled in part by the current political climate鈥攖o encompass its multitude of definitions, from the phenomena of the physical world to the broader characteristics and essences of the universe at large. ILL (nature paintings) will feature approximately a dozen new paintings, produced through a range of both digital and physical approaches. 

Moffett鈥檚 multi-dimensional paintings, drawings, installations, and projects have always held within them a social critique, with the formal approaches serving as surrogates for interrogating both the individual body and the body politic. His practice has included work with the artist collective Gran Fury, in the 1980s, which developed a visual vocabulary for exposing the urgency of the AIDS epidemic; the Mr. Gay in the USA drawings, which revealed the pathological brew of homophobia and paranoia that led to a mass shooting and murder; and the 2007 exhibition Fleisch, in which he first began to treat the canvas as a skin that can be cut and sutured to examine different levels of violence and self-destruction, among many more series and works. Moffett has, throughout his multi-decade career, fused formal experimentation with social commentary to create an inextricable whole.