The exhibition traces the development of Joyce Pensato’s work, from her early still lifes and Batman drawings of the 1970s to the large-scale black-and-white enamel paintings of the 1990s, in which the New York artist brought drawing and painting together for the first time. This marked a decisive turning point in her artistic practice. While her work had initially been strongly shaped by her training at the New York Studio School and the Abstract Expressionism prevalent there, her shift from oil to enamel gave her newfound freedom in gesture, material, abstraction, and expression. For the exhibitions in Hamburg and at the FRAC des Pays de la Loire (starting in spring 2027), approximately 20 works on loan from the Miami exhibition will be included and supplemented by a larger selection of works from European collections. Pensato’s subversive appropriation of comic and cartoon characters, which questions the visual language and mechanisms of popular culture, resonates in a special way with the Falckenberg Collection’s focus on counterculture. Accordingly, the Hamburg exhibition will be complemented by an accompanying presentation of works from the collection. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with ICA Miami and the Frac des Pays de la Loire and was originally curated by Alex Gartenfeld, Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director at ICA Miami; Gean Moreno, Director of the Art + Research Center and Monica and Blake Grossman Curator at ICA Miami; and Stephanie Seidel, former curator at ICA Miami. Deichtorhallen Hamburg