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Presentation Details
Broadway will present new works by Edie Fake. His meticulously rendered gouache-on-panel paintings distill investigations into architecture, climate catastrophe, gender identity, and sexuality into exuberant abstract geometries. Fake’s acclaimed Memory Palaces series reimagined the facades of Chicago’s lost LGBTQ venues with maximalist ornamentation, constructing dazzling visual metaphors for queer community. Since moving to Joshua Tree in the Mojave Desert, the artist has evolved the concept through the lens of environmental fragility and change. The desert landscape—and the core elements of sand and water—are touchstones for the cryptic graphic motifs of more recent works.

About the Gallery
Broadway is a contemporary art gallery located in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City founded by Pascal Spengemann and Joe Cole. Broadway is dedicated to presenting a dynamic program of emerging and mid-career artists working in painting, sculpture, film and video.

Images

Edie Fake, Cremains, 2021, Gouache on masonite panel, 36 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the Broadway gallery

Edie Fake, Cremains, 2021, Gouache on masonite panel, 36 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the Broadway gallery

Edie Fake, Aurora, 2021, Gouache on masonite panel, 36 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the Broadway gallery

Edie Fake, Aurora, 2021, Gouache on masonite panel, 36 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the Broadway gallery

Edie Fake, Drought Conditions, 2021, Gouache on masonite panel, 30 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the Broadway gallery

Edie Fake, Drought Conditions, 2021, Gouache on masonite panel, 30 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the Broadway gallery

Edie Fake, Fruiting Bodies, 2021, Gouache on masonite panel, 36 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the Broadway gallery

Edie Fake, Fruiting Bodies, 2021, Gouache on masonite panel, 36 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the Broadway gallery