Jim Lambie Art Exhibition at The Peninsula New York

Just in time for Art Week in New York, The Peninsula in New York presents a selection of Jim Lambie's renowned artwork starting March 2023.

Jim Lambie (b. 1964) is an artist from Glasgow, Scotland, where he continues to live and work. The artist’s sculptures and installations reference music, often drawing from his own experience in the Glasgow music scene—particularly visible in the way his work has a rhythmic flow, and often noted in the titles that reference his favorite albums and musicians. The artist celebrates the ability of humble, everyday materials to transform a space into something new: which can be seen in his incorporation of found materials such as tape, record covers, paper, doors, and sunglass lenses.

Throughout his career, the artist’s work has been exhibited at preeminent art institutions across the globe, including MoMA New York, the Royal Academy in London, TATE, and more. His work is included in numerous permanent collections including the Albright Knox Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, MoMA, among many others.

The Peninsula New York is thrilled to present a selection of works by the artist, including one of his Zobop floors. Zobop transforms a space using just one simple material: continuous lines of multi-colored vinyl tape, laid in concentric circuits of the room from its outside edges to its center. Each Zobop is unique in that it responds to the intricacies and individual architecture of the space it occupies. The original concept behind his famous Zobop was the question of how to fill a space without using any objects.

Jim Lambie’s Screamadelica wall installation references music via a do-it-yourself aesthetic that favors punk over polish. His unique process of alteration permits the most humble of objects to take on totemic proportions. In the present work, gaffer tape and printed paper occupies the walls with immersive reach.

In addition, one of Lambie’s Zobop floors was exhibited in the neighborhood at MoMA in 2008 in “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today.” Just one block away from the hotel is the artist’s New York Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, at 16 East 55th Street, which is also home to a permanently installed staircase and floor.

For more information about his work, please visit here.

33rpm, 2000
Corona Borealis, 2017
Femme Fatale, 2009
Grace Jones, 2000
Lens, 2018
Pharaoh’s Dance, 2022
Rod Stewart, 2000
Sunday Morning (Goldfinch), 2019
Untitled, 2000
Wings Over America, 2002