Installation view, David Novros, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, March 7 – April 25, 2026. © 2026 David Novros / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Porbert Studio.
On the occasion of David Novros 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 (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.
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.
The composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill is widely recognized as one of the most original and innovative voices in contemporary music. He has acclaimed releases from his bands Air, X-75, the Henry Threadgill Sextett, Very Very Circus, Make a Move, Zooid, and Ensemble Double Up. He was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2021. His four-movement work, In for a Penny, In for a Pound, received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016. His autobiography “Easily Slip Into Another World” published by Knopf in May 2023 won the 2024 American Book Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, along with being a Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker.