Artist Talk & Music by Henry Threadgill

On the occasion of at Paula Cooper Gallery, the artist will be in conversation with Jörg Daur, Deputy Director and Curator at Wiesbaden Museum in Germany about Novros’s work and practice.

Preceding the conversation, jazz musician Henry Threadgill will improvise in the gallery, surrounded by Novros’s paintings.

David Novros

David Novros (b. 1941, Los Angeles) first exhibited in a two-person show with Mark di Suvero in 1965 at the Park Place Gallery. The following year, Novros had his first one-person show at Dwan Gallery, LA, and was included in Systemic Painting at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

In 1970, Donald Judd commissioned David Novros to create a work at 101 Spring Street, Judd’s home and studio. The fresco remains on view at the Judd Foundation. In Fall 2026, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, will open the most comprehensive exhibition of Novros’s work to date.

Jörg Daur

Dr. Jörg Daur (b. 1973) is the Deputy Director and curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Museum Wiesbaden, Germany. He studied art history, philosophy, and religious studies in Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main.

At the Museum Wiesbaden, he has curated exhibitions featuring works by Rebecca Horn, Ellsworth Kelly, Fred Sandback, Katharina Grosse, Thomas Bayrle, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Joanna Pousette-Dart, and Eva Hesse, as well as the 2013 retrospective of David Novros. Together with the artist, he installed Novros's “Salidas” as a permanent installation at the Museum Wiesbaden in 2017.

Henry Threadgill

Hailed by the New York Times as “perhaps the most important jazz composer of his generation,” Henry Threadgill has been celebrated for over forty years as one of the most original, forward-thinking composers and multi-instrumentalists in American music. His four-movement work, In for a Penny, In for a Pound, received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016. A Chicago native, Mr. Threadgill studied at the city’s American Conservatory of Music, majoring in composition, piano, and flute. Mr. Threadgill has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Aaron Copland Award, and the Doris Duke Impact Award. Mr. Threadgill has released over thirty critically acclaimed albums.

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Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21st Street, New York, United States

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