Lévy Gorvy Dayan is thrilled to announce Half Way Home by Los-Angeles based artist Austyn Weiner, opening on May 8, 2025. Weiner’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery will comprise three monumental paintings that form an immersive installation, representing the emotional, physical, and spiritual odyssey she traversed over the past year.

Using her pre-pandemic abstract landscape The Last First Symphony (2020) as a starting point, the exhibition was inspired in late 2023 by Claude Monet’s elliptical rooms of Water Lilies at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, which were formative to Weiner. Wanting to create her own space of reflection and solace, she embarked on an ambitious room-sized installation of paintings. Yet shortly thereafter, the artist experienced incalculable loss in the span of a few months with the deaths of her father, her closest friend, and her grandmother. The large-scale works became the theater for processing her emotions, and for her experience of desolation and resilience. The ensuing panels capture the marks of this struggle, radiating the artist’s emotional realities of pain, sorrow, and longing as they evolved during the yearlong period; by her own admission, “this is the longest I have worked on a surface.”