Claudia Doring Baez: My Brother's Mind
Installation view of Claudia Doring Baez: My Brother's Mind at Friedrich Pontone New York, 2025. Courtesy of Friedrich Pontone, New York
Friedrichs Pontone announces solo exhibition, My Brother’s Mind, featuring a series of paintings by Claudia Doring Baez. Friedrichs Pontone is pleased to present My Brother ' s Mind, Claudia Doring Baez 's first exhibition with the gallery. Inspired by the 1975 Italian film The Night Porter and her late Brother ' s photography, Doring Baez portrays expressionistic mastery and provocative sequences. The exhibition will open on April 4th, 2025, and will be on view through May 3rd, 2025.
Claudia Doring Baez My Brother's Mind, Night Porter, "Sighing", 2024 Oil on canvas 18 x 24 in45.7 x 61 cm
With the lust of hopeless romantics, we pursue the dead, trying to enter from all angles, seeking the meaning and message that would make the kaleidoscopic truth of their lives stand still enough that we could hold it to our chests and breathe easy.
Claudia Doring Baez My Brother's Mind, Paris, 2024 Oil on canvas 11 x 16 in 27.9 x 40.6 cm
Doring Baez and her brother not only shared a common past but a collaborative relationship that flourished until his untimely death in 2016. Together they explored the act of capturing life, not only through the films they produced and directed as a team, but in their individual work, as painter and photographer.
Every Sunday at the tender ages of ten and twelve the Dorings sat with their parents at the screening room of the Cineteca National (National Movie theater) Torta de los guajolotes (a pulled pork sandwich) and Coca-Cola in hand, taking in the classic cinema of their time. Watching the work of Godard, Passolini, Fellini, Antonioni, and Cavani imprinted the indelible visual stamp that marked the siblings, teaching them the power of the visual and impressing their young minds with the aesthetics they would return to again and again.
Claudia Doring Baez My Brother's Mind, Night Porter, Genevieve Liberté II, 2024 Oil on canvas 60 x 60 in 152.4 x 152.4 cm
My Brother ' s Mind reunites the artist with her desire to know her brother more deeply than anyone can ever know another person. She wishes to discover, in his death, the drive that led him to capture the female figure in an aesthetic very akin to many of the women from the films they saw in that cinema. The title stuns us with its quixotic flare: how can anyone enter anyone else ' s mind? Yet death propels us to try to do just that.
Claudia Doring Baez, My Brother's Mind I, 2024 Oil on canvas 18 x 18 in 45.7 x 45.7 cm
This is Friedrichs Pontone’s third exhibition of 2025, and will run alongside Kristi Kongi’s solo presentation, Twilight in the Garden.
About Friedrichs Pontone
Friedrichs Pontone was established in 2022, opening its flagship gallery at 273 Church Street in the historic Tribeca gallery district, directly across from Barnett Newman Triangle. The gallery is dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of contemporary art, representing artists from Europe, Korea, and the United States. Its program reflects a commitment to both emerging and established talents, fostering cross-cultural artistic dialogue. Friedrichs Pontone is led by founders Martin Friedrichs and Domenic Pontone, who bring a combined 40 years of experience to the gallery. Martin Friedrichs previously served as director at two prestigious international galleries, while Domenic Pontone is the founder of Pontone Gallery London and the director of The Albemarle Gallery London.
For more information about this exhibition and others at Friedrich Pontone, please visit their site here. The gallery can also be found on Instagram and Artsy.
