The next 12 months offers a wide range of challenging and unusual exhibitions from artists such as Ruth Asawa and Rashid Johnson
With threats of global instability, ongoing economic uncertainty, and looming battles for America’s political heart and soul, you’ll probably need a good art exhibition more than ever in 2025. Here are a number that can offer space for rest, respite and the return of some amount of optimism in spite of what may come this year.
Erwin Pfrang: The Ghosts Ask
Strange and grotesque, and inspired by the mind of James Joyce among others, Erwin Pfrang’s work demands to be seen. Bringing to mind Francis Bacon, Pfrang’s work is grotesque, while also being undeniably psychological and compositionally complex. As the gallery puts it: “There is a sense of fragility, suffering and existential unease in his imagery which evokes feelings of disorientation and alienation.” Pfrang has been affiliated with David Nolan Gallery since 1988 – almost as long as the gallery itself has existed – and this promises to be an important show of one of the venue’s most beloved artists. 10 January-22 February, David Nolan Gallery
