Brandon Ndife: Palimpsests | 02.10 - 29.11.2025
Detail from Brandon Ndife, Brood of Vipers, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. Photo: Júlia Standovár
Copyright the artist. Courtesy Holtermann Fine Art. Photo Ollie Hammick
Holtermann Fine Art is pleased to present Brandon Ndife: Palimpsests, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery and his London debut.
Brandon Ndife: Palimpsests features work made in 2024, including wall-based sculpture, freestanding structures and works on paper. The exhibition takes its title from the concept of a palimpsest - a surface layered with traces of previous marks or writings - an idea that resonates with Ndife’s ongoing exploration of history, transformation and overlay.
Born in 1991 in Hammond, Indiana, and now based in Brooklyn, Ndife alters familiar domestic objects into layered, poetic sculptures. Cast-off furniture and household stuffs are reworked with resin, wood, foam, cement and other materials resulting in works that exist between the sculptural and the painterly - the poetic state invoked by palimpsest.
An exhibition text by Jon Wood accompanies the show.
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Brandon Ndife, Brood of Vipers, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. Photo: Júlia Standovár
Brandon Ndife, Young Sprout, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
Copyright the artist. Courtesy Holtermann Fine Art. Photo Ollie Hammick
Brandon Ndife, Split End, 2024. Copyright the artist. Courtesy Holtermann Fine Art. Photo Ollie Hammick
Detail from Brandon Ndife, Split End, 2024. Courtesy the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; and James Cohan, New York. Photo: Dan Bradica
Copyright the artist. Courtesy Holtermann Fine Art. Photo Ollie Hammick