Celeste Rapone: Some Weather
4 September - 18 October 2025
Marianne Boesky Gallery
509 West 24th Street

Marianne Boesky is pleased to present Some Weather, an exhibition of new oil paintings by Celeste Rapone (b. 1985 in New Jersey; based in Chicago) that examine the artist's anxieties around aging in a way that is alternately humorous and serious.

Throughout eleven new paintings, the saturated colors so characteristic of Rapone’s practice give way to unusually muted hues—”diet colors,” as the artist refers to them—borrowed from the influx advertisements for sensible clothing and home decor that she began receiving in the mail and on her Instagram feed as she approached the age of 40.

In these diet tones—beige, navy, drab olive, muted “gravender”—Rapone’s figures attend to the activities of daily life: cooking, cleaning, bathing, painting, spending time with friends. Limbs contorted within the cramped, flattened spaces the artist has created for them, these figures remain completely engrossed in—or perhaps resigned to—the tasks at hand. 

Facing the concerns of aging, the anxieties of a tumultuous political climate, and the inescapable fear of the unknown, these figures brace themselves for a grim future. Still, the paintings at times offer a sense of humor and whimsy; these women relax in hot tubs with novelty drink glasses in hand, or search for guidance in Ouija boards. In this embrace of the lighthearted, Rapone reminds us that this season of anxiety and uncertainty too shall pass.

Some Weather will be on view alongside Gabriel Chaile: Esto es América, o qual é o limite? in Marianne Boesky’s adjacent space at 507 West 24 Street.

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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of the exhibition, with the credit line “copyright of the artist and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery”