God is Good

Meredith Rosen Gallery is pleased to present God is Good, a solo exhibition of new work by gallery artist Catharine Czudej. This is Czudej’s third solo exhibition with Meredith Rosen and the inaugural show at 327 West 36th Street. Troubling the boundaries between artist, retailer and gamer and collector and consumer, God is Good makes strange our own consumption and reconstructs it as a product in and of itself. The exhibition includes six new paintings, and a line of merchandise made specifically for the exhibition lit by a crude overhead lighting system improvised from extension cords. Building on her practice of reconfiguring everyday objects and symbols, Czudej draws viewers’ attention to the materials and language which have become invisible through banality of late capitalist consumer culture. In the new large scale black and white paintings, Czudej references digital language, religious symbology and the grid. Sections of bar codes and crosses appear and submerge as gridded forms suggest QR codes which become unusable through the painting process. Czudej made the new series of works through a process of painting, cutting and recombining the canvas—pushing the forms in and out of recognition and functionality. Czudej’s post digital inquiry into the vestigial structures of consumerism are channeled through Don’t Stop Moving, a cinematic take on first-person video games. Drawing from twitch and youtube monologues, Czudej’s protagonist slowly amasses a body count. Her humorous and absurdist lens charts the tools of gamification, asking where culture derives from and where the game begins and ends. The line of merchandise, made specifically for this exhibition, serves as an extension of Czudej’s experimental storefront “Practical Magic” which Czudej refers to as a “Lamp Shop” which she operated out the back of her Brooklyn studio, into the gallery space. Visitors can buy a t-shirt for $50 or swap for the one they’re wearing. Catharine Czudej (b. 1985) lives and works in New York. She holds a BFA from New York University (2007) and an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2016). Selected solo exhibitions include Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Meredith Rosen Gallery (2023, 2020); Josh Lilley Gallery (2022); Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy (2016); Ramiken Crucible (2014, 2015). Selected group exhibitions include Great Works, Galerie Oskar Weiss (2025); Sadie Coles HQ, London (2024); Kammel Menour,Paris curated by Cloe Perrone (2017); Venus Over Manhattan, Los Angeles (2017); Eva Presenhuber Zurich curated by Alexandra Economonou (2016); Isabela Bortolozzi Curated by Ed Atkins (2015); Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain (2015); Pace Gallery, London (2014). In 2015 she received the Pirelli Prize, Art Brussels, followed by the Fürstenberg Fellowship, Germany (2017).

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