Jamie Nares

Carling Dalenson has the pleasure to announce the gallerys second solo exhibition British-American artist Jamie Nares, ”Time Like This”.

Opening September 25, 2025, in Stockholm, ”Time Like This” includes a new series of ten unique brushstroke paintings.Born in London in 1953 and based in New York City since the early 1970s, Nares has spent over five decades pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, film, video, photography, performance, and sound, all connected by a deep investigation into movement, physicality, and the passage of time.

Nares rose to prominence in the 1980s with her sweeping, large-scale paintings created using custom-built brushes and tools. These works – composed of single, fluid brushstrokes – appear suspended in motion, as if frozen in time. To eliminate gravity’s effect and achieve her signature visual clarity, Nares has developed a unique overhead painting technique, allowing her to paint from above and create strokes that are both forceful and impossibly delicate.

Though the paintings may at first seem spontaneous, her process is a carefully controlled experiment – meticulous, deliberate, and governed by the physical laws of motion, balance, and time.

Over the years, Nares has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Whitney Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, which hosted a retrospective in 2019. Her work is held in numerous prominent public collections worldwide.

In the upcoming exhibition “Time Like This” at Carling Dalenson Gallery in Stockholm, Nares continues her exploration of movement and time, capturing the fleeting yet forceful energy of a single gesture in each work.

Born James Nares, the artist publicly embraced her gender identity in 2019 and has since 2024 continued her practice under the name Jamie Nares. Her innovative, deeply personal, and technically adventurous practice continues to inspire audiences across generations.