Jaume Plensa

Remote, Serene, Ethereal

GRAY New York | Sep 23 - Dec 19, 2026

Jaume Plensa: Remote, Serene, Ethereal, co-presented by GRAY and Galerie Lelong, is on view at GRAY New York September 23 through December 19. The exhibition features three elongated portraits in painted bronze surrounded by a suite of site-specific wall drawings by the artist.

The titles of the three portraits—Remote (Yolandita), Serene (Ita), and Ethereal (Martina)— express an enduring tension in Plensa’s work, the space between the universal and the individual. While the foundational images in his portrait works come from specific figures from his community in Barcelona, the forms pull away from those individualities and move toward a more universal collective when elongated and monumentally scaled. At over two meters tall each, the sculpture installation offers a space of stillness and contemplation through which the viewer can pass.

Alongside, and as a counterpart to, his sculptural practice, Plensa has long pursued a method of drawing that is site-specific, immediate, and spontaneous. Drawn directly on the wall, Plensa’s charcoal portraits expand freely, responding to the architecture of each unique environment. The mural-sized drawings in Remote, Serene, Ethereal offer a two-dimensional echo of the three-dimensional sculptures, surrounding them in space.