
Lévy Gorvy Dayan is thrilled to announce Half Way Home by Los-Angeles based artist Austyn Weiner, opening on May 8, 2025. Weiner’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery will comprise three monumental paintings that form an immersive installation, representing the emotional, physical, and spiritual odyssey she traversed over the past year.
Using her pre-pandemic abstract landscape The Last First Symphony (2020) as a starting point, the exhibition was inspired in late 2023 by Claude Monet’s elliptical rooms of Water Lilies at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, which were formative to Weiner. Wanting to create her own space of reflection and solace, she embarked on an ambitious room-sized installation of paintings. Yet shortly thereafter, the artist experienced incalculable loss in the span of a few months with the deaths of her father, her closest friend, and her grandmother. The large-scale works became the theater for processing her emotions, and for her experience of desolation and resilience. The ensuing panels capture the marks of this struggle, radiating the artist’s emotional realities of pain, sorrow, and longing as they evolved during the yearlong period; by her own admission, “this is the longest I have worked on a surface.”
Working in oil on linen at a heroic scale, Weiner brings a bounding athleticism to her lyrical abstraction, using brushes and oil sticks to draw her signature glyphs and characters into washes of brilliant colour.
Helmed by Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, and Amalia Dayan, Lévy Gorvy Dayan collaborates with artists, estates, non-profit organizations, foundations, museums, and private collections to increase the visibility of twentieth- and twenty-first century works and artists—realizing seminal projects and furthering legacies. In forming Lévy Gorvy Dayan, the partners merge their respective specialties across twentieth- and twenty-first century art, their reputations as leaders and tastemakers, and their respective backgrounds in the primary and secondary markets. Lévy Gorvy Dayan provides opportunities for education, exposure, and access to acquiring exceptional art through its museum-quality exhibition program and thoughtful participation in international art fairs. Expanding, refining, and enhancing world-class modern and contemporary art collections, the gallery emphasizes connoisseurship and curation in its collection development, estate planning, and art appraisal services. Both international and local in practice and perspective, Lévy Gorvy Dayan has unique spaces and unmatched market knowledge in New York, London, and Hong Kong, in addition to representation in Geneva, Milan, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, and Taiwan.

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