Celia Paul’s Paintings Speak to Loss, Solitude, and Identity

Gladstone presents Innervisions, an exhibition of new paintings by Celia Paul in New York, marking her first show with the gallery.

For decades, Paul has lived and worked in the same top-floor London flat, spare, paint-scented, and lit by a steady window, where the British Museum sits almost at eye level and the distant BT Tower blinks across the city like a slow pulse. The studio is not a backdrop so much as an instrument: it holds time, and it concentrates attention.