Gagosian Featured New Paintings by Anna Weyant at TEFAF New York 2025
ANNA WEYANT TEFAF New York, 2025, installation view Artwork @ Anna Weyant Photo: Dan Bradica Courtesy Gagosian
NEW YORK,—Gagosian was pleased to participate in TEFAF New York 2025 with the presentation of a new body of work by Anna Weyant. Displayed in a booth with lavender walls and pine-colored carpet chosen by the artist, these intimately scaled, precisely composed paintings of jewelry explore themes of display, adornment, and commerce.
Made in the tradition of trompe l’oeil illusionism, the works on view (all 2025) represent the glow of delicately crafted gold chains, the opalescent sheen of pearls, and the sparkling facets of gemstones.
ANNA WEYANT TEFAF New York, 2025, installation view Artwork @ Anna Weyant Photo: Dan Bradica Courtesy Gagosian
Depicted with close attention to directional light and shadow, these bracelets, earrings, and necklaces are centered on flat painted grounds of light brown, mounted as if in a jewelry box or displayed in a store. Several of the depicted pieces feature price tags as if for sale.
ANNA WEYANT Daisy Necklace, 2025 Oil on canvas 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (21 x 21 cm) © Anna Weyant Photo: Maris Hutchinson Courtesy Gagosian
Weyant’s jewelry paintings convey unchanging stillness. The oversize pearls, stylized flowers, and diamond cross play with ideas of artificial beauty, the precision of craft, and cultural and religious symbolism. In addition, pieces of jewelry often have subjective meanings invested in them as tokens for occasions or relationships, perhaps suggesting lives beyond their own.
ANNA WEYANT TEFAF New York, 2025, installation view Artwork @ Anna Weyant Photo: Dan Bradica Courtesy Gagosian
The jewelry paintings are complemented by Spring Florals, a tabletop still life featuring a profusion of flowers in a vase. Engaging with themes of abundance, vitality, and vanitas essential to the tradition of the still life, the composition’s blooms resemble the abstract, flattened flowers of the jewelry in Daisy Necklace and Daisy Earrings, charging the paintings with a sense of intrigue and artifice.
For Anna Weyant’s biographical information and exhibition history, please visit here. TEFAF was held from 8–13, 2025, at Park Avenue Armory, New York. Gagosian's booth was located at Booth 350. Information about TEFAF can be found here, along with information about Park Avenue Armory can be found on the website, Facebook, X, Instagram, and YouTube. For more information about the artists represented by Gagosian and other exhibitions at the gallery, please visit the gallery’s site here. The gallery can also be found on Pinterest, X, YouTube, Facebook,Instagram, and Artsy.
