{"id":54684,"date":"2025-04-27T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54684\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:58:16","slug":"michaela-yearwood-dan-no-time-for-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54684\/","title":{"rendered":"Michaela Yearwood-Dan: No Time for Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michaela Yearwood-Dan: No Time for Despair
14th May, 2025\u2013 2nd August, 2025
Hauser & Wirth London
23 Savile Row
London W1S 2ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through paintings, sculpture, site-specific murals and installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan<\/strong><\/a> endeavors to build spaces of community, abundance and joy. Yearwood-Dan\u2019s debut exhibition with Hauser & Wirth<\/strong> will take place in London<\/strong><\/a>, featuring new paintings ranging from monumental to intimate in scale, including an expansive 11m-long panelled landscape painting, alongside richly adorned ceramic sculptures and benches. The lyrical quality of the paintings will be complemented by a new sound piece made in collaboration with the composer Alex Gruz<\/a>, a reflection on the analogous experience of art and music alike. <\/p>\n

The title of the show, \u2018No Time for Despair<\/strong><\/a>,\u2019 is a call to action, referencing an article written by Toni Morrison for The Nation, which states, \u2018In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"MichaelaMichaela Yearwood-Dan
We\u2019ll be free (someday)
2025
Oil, acrylic, paper and glass beads on plastic and canvas
240 x 200 cm \/ 94 1\/2 x 78 3\/4 in
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Marianne Boesky Gallery
\u00a9 Michaela Yearwood-Dan Photo: Deniz Guzel<\/p>\n

Yearwood-Dan\u2019s unique visual language draws on a diverse range of influences, including Blackness, queerness, femininity and healing rituals. Moving freely between media and resisting any singular definition of identity, the artist explores the possibilities of creating spaces\u2014physical, pastoral, metaphorical\u2014that allow for unlimited and unbounded ways of being.<\/p>\n

Lush and brightly hued, Yearwood-Dan\u2019s work is at once personal and political. She often engages colors and materials for their symbolic associations, such as ceramic petals collaged into her recent paintings, as seen in \u2018Fxxk the opinions and all the logistics\u2019 (2025), that evoke the queer histories of carnations and pansies. The surfaces of her canvases are dense with generous and purposeful swathes of lavish pigments, as well as textures and embellishments using subversive and non-traditional materials such as gold leaf, Swarovski crystals, sequins and glitter.<\/p>\n

See also<\/p>\n

\"Hoo<\/a><\/p>\n

Language intertwines with botanical motifs throughout the works, where abstract habitats not only teem with hints of plant life but also inscribed lines of text from song lyrics, poetry or her own diaristic writings. Her words, in works such as \u2018We\u2019ll be free (someday)\u2019 (2025), beckon the viewer into a vivid, welcoming world of paradox, play and contemplation formed within an atmosphere of swirling forms and brilliant chromaticity. A monumental five-panelled landscape work acts almost as a mural, a vista into another world, and is in dialogue with large-scale paintings and a collection of bonus tracks or \u2018B-Sides\u2019, jewel-like, intimate versions of their larger counterparts.<\/p>\n

\"MichaelaMichaela Yearwood-Dan
Fxxk the opinions and all the logistics
2025
Oil, glass beads, paper and ribbon on canvas
240 x 200 cm \/ 94 1\/2 x 78 3\/4 in
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Marianne Boesky Gallery
\u00a9 Michaela Yearwood-Dan Photo: Deniz Guzel<\/p>\n

In recent years, Yearwood-Dan\u2019s practice has expanded to include sculpture, extending her visual vocabulary. The exhibition features joyful ceramic sculptures on purpose-built plinths as well as two benches crafted in wood that are partially painted and adorned with ceramics that pour with plant-life. She encourages the viewer to move around each work, shaping the experience of surrounding space and atmosphere. With their luxuriant tropical shades and decorative flourishes, Yearwood-Dan\u2019s sculptural works enrich an oeuvre alive with individuality.<\/p>\n

Michaela Yearwood-Dan: No Time for Despair opens on the 14th of May, 2025 until the 2nd of August, 2025 at Hauser & Wirth London<\/strong><\/p>\n

Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a92025 Hauser & Wirth<\/p>\n

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