Rae Klein: DOUBLECROSS

Los Angeles

February 18 – April 19, 2025

Rae Klein

Bodyguard, 2024–2025

oil on canvas

80 x 80 in
203 x 203 cm

Rae Klein

You are Completely Safe II, 2024

oil on linen

80 x 80 in
203 x 203 cm

Rae Klein

I am Overcome, 2024

oil on linen

80 x 80 in
203 x 203 cm

Rae Klein

Burn to the Ground IV, 2024

oil on linen

46 x 50 in
117 x 127 cm

Rae Klein

Dog with Blue Curtain, 2024

oil on linen

46 x 50 in
117 x 127 cm

Rae Klein

Ever Growing Circle, 2024

oil on linen

80 x 80 in
203 x 203 cm

Rae Klein

Triple Dog, 2024

oil on linen

72 x 108 in
183 x 274 cm

Rae Klein

My Enemy, 2024

oil on linen

11 x 14 in
28 x 36 cm

Rae Klein

Glass Pony IIX, 2024

oil on linen

46 x 50 in
117 x 127 cm

Rae Klein

Help, 2024

oil on linen

80 x 80 in
203 x 203 cm

Rae Klein

Title Forthcoming, 2024

oil on linen

44 x 50 in
112 x 127 cm

Rae Klein

Sondra VII, 2024

oil on linen

9 x 12 in
23 x 31 cm

Rae Klein

Quadruple Dog, 2024

oil on linen

11 x 14 in
28 x 36 cm

Rae Klein

Glass Pony VII, 2024

oil on linen

9 x 12 in
23 x 31 cm

Press Release

Eden was a trap. The garden of paradise was not so much paradise as equal parts sanctuary and minefield, and a sanctuary with a minefield does not make for eternal bliss. On the sixth day, along with man, woman, the animals, and the garden itself, the great maker double-crossed his only conscious creations with the very existence of the Tree of Knowledge. DOUBLECROSS, Rae Klein’s fourth solo exhibition with Nicodim and her second at the gallery’s flagship Los Angeles gallery, is a visual palindrome of existential riddles imbued with a quiet, primal tension—perhaps it is shame from after the fall. These are paintings from a freshly exploded consciousness, a dreamlike, eyes-half-opened state somewhere on the spider’s thread between Heaven and Hell.

Rae Klein (b. 1995) lives and works in Michigan. She graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 2017 with a BFA in Painting. Her visual vocabulary isolates references to mankind’s attempts to assert its mastery over the feral world through fear, power, spirituality, or some combination of the three. Exhibitions include DOUBLECROSS, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2025, solo, forthcoming); Echoes of Eden: A Return to Bosch's Garden, curated by Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse and Peter Brant Jr., Private residence, New York (2024); Niklas Asker, Rae Klein, Jorge Peris, Nicodim, New York (2024); The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2024); DISEMBODIED, curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2024); POWERPLAY, Nicodim, New York (2023, solo); Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest: 10 Years, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2023); Last Night I Dreamt I Was Running, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2023, solo); DISEMBODIED, curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim, New York (2023); LOW VOICE OUT LOUD, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022, solo); The Comfort in Calamity, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco (2022, solo); BODYLAND, curated by Lauren Taschen, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (2022).