Artist Gedi Sibony’s eighth solo show at Greene Naftali in New York, “The Invisible Point,” features assemblage sculptures made from discarded bookshelves, plant stands and wire, alongside minimal paintings, per artnews.com.
The exhibition opened June 3 and runs to June 20, 2026.
The exhibition continues Sibony’s practice of creating works from castoffs and remnants. Sculptures include Using Its Own Resources (2024), a six-and-a-half-foot piece made from scavenged bookshelves with dripped paint on the reverse side. Sibony collected shelves thrown away on the street, removing back panels to reveal what he called “a kind of sparkly surface effect.”
Other works, such as In the Quadrant of Primary Characteristics (2023) and Endowed with Inexhaustibility (2025), combine found bookshelves with painted wood fragments. The arrangement recreates relationships formed between pieces in the artist’s Brooklyn studio over the last three years.
Sibony also presents oil-stick paintings on canvas, inspired by tropical landscapes and Henri Matisse’s Luxe, Calme, et Volupté (1904). The works, with titles including Made of Jewels (2026) and Gathering Its Own Air (2026), remove figures from the Matisse original and leave sparse trees and horizon lines. He worked on multiple canvases at once, describing the process as “fast, fast, fast, but also putting on the brakes.”
The press release for the show is four sentences long, stating the process is “powered by an intuitive momentum” and that works gesture “toward the mystery that humbles us.” Greene Naftali has shown Sibony since 2008. Past exhibitions include “The King and the Corpse” in 2018, which featured a former White Castle building.
Sibony’s work is held in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo.
The gallery lights remain off during the show, with natural light from north-facing windows. Sibony said the stillness of the installation offers “this frozen moment” rather than a sense of movement.
“Gedi Sibony: The Invisible Point” is on view at Greene Naftali, 508 West 26th Street, 8th floor, New York, through June 20, 2026.
Sibony first gained wider attention for “In the Still Epiphany,” a 2012 artist-curated exhibition at the Pulitzer Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri. The show combined objects from the Pulitzer collection, ranging from Neolithic figures to a 1957 Philip Guston painting.
•Featured image: Gedi Sibony at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York/Christopher Garcia Valle/Artnews
