Galerie Lelong presents 20 striking new sculptures by Petah Coyne in Vermilion Fog, an exhibition divided into two parts--Dante's Inferno and Unforgiven, allusions to literature and film that loosely frame the works by themes of loss, chaos, and redemption. Vermilion Fog is a monumental exhibition for the artist known for her use of diverse materials in large works whose grace and fragility belie their immense weight and arduous process. Vermilion Fog opens to the public on Friday, October 24 from 6 to 8 pm, and the artist will be present.

The 25-year career of Petah Coyne has been one of constant and pervasive reinvention--the reinvention of her own working practices, of unconventional materials and their innate characteristics, of the delineations of figuration and abstraction. Coyne's alchemic sensibilities have led her to adopt and interweave disparate and seemingly inflexible materials such as tree roots, sand, human hair, scrap metal, silk flowers, Velcro, religious statuary, and taxidermy. The labor-intensive works that result are both obsessively precise and wildly untamed. After all of her hoarding, hoisting, piling, wrestling, and encasing, Coyne's creation is imbued with a restless energy that develops a life of its own.

Galerie Lelong opened to the public in New York in 1985, and in 2001, the gallery moved to its present ground floor location in Chelsea. In last 20 years, the gallery has presented exhibitions by seminal artists of our time, including Andy Goldsworthy, Alfredo Jaar, Gordon Matta-Clark, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Robert Ryman, Sean Scully, Richard Serra, and Nancy Spero. The gallery's focus is the primary representation of important contemporary artists from the United States, Europe, and Latin America who work in sculpture, painting, photography and new media. It also represents the Estate of Ana Mendieta and the Estate of Hélio Oiticica. Galerie Lelong also works closely with museums and public institutions to support the placement of permanent commissions and exhibitions and is active in the production of publications by its artists.

Galerie Lelong is a member of the Art Dealers’ Association of America, the most prestigious organization of art galleries in the United States.