An increasingly prominent voice among a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg has gained a reputation for works that, luminous in colour and often large in scale, hinge on a sense of intimacy. Depicting himself, his family, friends and lovers, Langberg’s paintings celebrate the physicality of touch – in subject matter and process – a closeness that engages with new dialogues around queer sensuality and sexuality.

The gallery’s first presentation of works by the artist features new paintings completed during the Covid-19 pandemic and period of lockdown in New York. Unable to paint from direct observation, Langberg returned to photographic source material depicting the artist and a former lover, making a series of graphite drawings whose directness and immediacy inspired the paintings Lovers, Lovers 2, and Lovers 3.