
Exhibition preview·New York
David Nolan Opens Tribeca Space with Valerio Adami's First New York Show in 25 Years
'Alice in the Land of Violence,' opening September 9, 2026, presents Valerio Adami's 1960s drawings and paintings — works made before his signature hard-edged graphic style — in the gallery's new Tribeca location.
David Nolan Gallery has moved to Tribeca and opened its new space on September 9, 2026, with 'Alice in the Land of Violence,' an exhibition of Valerio Adami's drawings and paintings from 1962–1966. It is the artist's first New York exhibition in nearly 25 years. The works come from a period before Adami arrived at his well-known hard-edged, graphic idiom. Raw and exuberant, they move between fantasy and reality, engaging postwar fashion, cars and commercial culture, with the exhibition taking its title from one of the pieces on view. Born in Bologna in 1935, Adami moved to Paris in 1955, formed ties with Matta, Wifredo Lam and writers including Octavio Paz and Jacques Derrida, and was shown at the Venice Biennale and Documenta III. The show runs through October 24.


