Cricket Music

Matthew Brown is pleased to present Cricket Music, a group exhibition featuring work by Julie Beaufils, Michaela Eichwald, Tomm El-Saieh, Cynthia Hawkins, Stefanie Heinze, Marguerite Humeau, Nora Kapfer, Olivia van Kuiken, Heidi Lau, Terry Winters, and Masaomi Yasunaga.

The title traces back to Walter De Maria, who in 1964 sat at a drum kit and played along to a recording of crickets at night. The resulting composition consists of subtle, gently modulating, repetitive rhythms played over the chirring of insects, creating something neither quite music nor quite nature: a human rhythm layered over a natural one. The sound of crickets is, in many places, one of the defining sounds of summer, instantly conjuring a season, a mood, a time of day. Their sound is produced by a simple mechanical action, wings rubbing together, for purposes that have nothing to do with us. Nothing to do with atmosphere. And yet atmosphere is exactly what it becomes when it reaches our ears, more like weather than anything with intent behind it. That gap between what something is and how we perceive it is where this show exists. Terry Winters later used the title for a painting now hanging in the gallery. We borrowed it from him.

This tension between mark and perception is made visible in a painting by Tomm El-Saieh. Up close, the surface looks like an invented script, each mark following the next with the internal logic of a language whose rules remain just out of reach. Packed so tightly, they generate their own weather system. Step back and the marks begin to dissolve into color. Step back again and they disappear entirely, absorbed into a field of pure sensation. Disintegration is the point.

Cynthia Hawkins works nearby. Structure is present, but no longer rigid. Elastic and nimble, geometry that has begun to breathe. Terry Winters builds a world that feels both diagrammatic and organismic. Star and triangle forms float in a loose grid, as if the painting cannot decide whether it is mapping something or growing it. Marguerite Humeau approaches from a different angle. Her carved alabaster figure, titled Amoeba, stands somewhere between animal and idol, between cellular and ceremonial. A form caught mid-transformation.

Cricket Music brings together works that behave less like constructed objects than like living systems. These artists do not impose outcomes as much as cultivate conditions. What they intend and what emerges are rarely the same, and what emerges, like De Maria's crickets, is never quite what it set out to be.

Julie Beaufils (b. 1987) lives and works in Paris, France. She received an MFA from the University of Southern California in 2015 and a DNSAP from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2010.

Solo exhibitions have been held at Matthew Brown, New York (2025) and Los Angeles (2023); Unlimited at Art Basel, presented by Matthew Brown and Balice Hertling Basel, Switzerland (2024); Balice Hertling, Paris (2023, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2014); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2017); Overduin & Co., Los Angeles (2016); and La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse (2016).

Select group exhibitions include Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2025); CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (2025); The Wolford House, Los Angeles (2024); Matthew Brown, New York (2024); Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Amsterdam (2023); Sifang Art Museum, Shanghai (curated by Julie Beaufils) (2022); Balice Hertling, Paris (2022 and 2021); Palais de Tokyo at ACRUSH, Zurich (2016); and Jessica Silverman Gallery (2015).

In 2020, Beaufils was the first artist-in-residence for Laura Owens’s Studio of the South residency at LUMA Foundation in Arles, France.

Michaela Eichwald (b. 1967, Günzburg, Germany) lives and works in Vienna, Wiehl, and Berlin.

Institutional solo exhibitions have been held at Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck (2023); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2021); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2020); Lenbachhaus, Munich (2020); Kunstverein Schwerin, Schwerin (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014); and Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2009).

Her work was included in You: Works from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2019); The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014); the 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2014); Painting Forever, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013); Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2006); and Artists In and Out of Cologne, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2007) amongst others.

Select solo exhibitions have been held at Maureen Paley, London (2026, 2019, 2018); Reena Spaulings, New York (2025, 2017, 2013, 2011, 2008); Marian Goodman, Paris (2023); Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2025, 2018); Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles (2022); dépendance, Brussels (2019, 2014, 2011, 2005); Silberkuppe, Berlin (2016, 2013); Overduin & Co., Los Angeles (2015); Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2014); Vilma Gold, London (2009); and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (1997), among others.

Eichwald’s work is included in the public collections of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Lenbachhaus Munich, Munich; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; and The Moulin Family Endowment Fund, Paris.

Tomm El-Saieh (b. 1984, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) lives and works in Miami, Florida. He studied at New World School of the Arts, Miami.

El-Saieh institutional solo exhibitions include Tomm El-Saieh, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami in 2017-2018; and Tomm El-Saieh: Imaginary City, The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2022–23). Institutional group exhibition participation includes Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (2022–24); Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami (2022, 2015); and New Museum Triennial, New York (2018).

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions have been held at Luhring Augustine, New York (2024, 2021); CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach (2023, 2018–19, 2015); Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2019); Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami (2017–18); Michael Jon & Alan, Miami (2016); Galleria Macca, Cagliari, Italy (2016); and Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami (2008).

El-Saieh’s work is included in the public collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Rubell Museum, Miami; Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, Texas; He Art Museum, Foshan, China; and Rice University, Houston.

Cynthia Hawkins (b. 1950, Queens, New York) lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York. She received a BFA from Queens College, City University of New York in 1977, an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore in 1992, and a PhD from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in 2019. She participated in the Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residence program from 1987–88.

Her work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2025); Hollybush Gardens, London (2025); Kaufmann Repetto, Milan (2024); STARS, Los Angeles (2024, 2022); Ortuzar Projects, New York (2023); Livingston Arts Center, Mount Morris, NY (2016); Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico (2010); Buffalo Science Museum, Buffalo (2009); and Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ (2007).

Recent institutional group exhibitions include MoMA PS1, New York (2026); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2026); 36th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2025); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2025); University of Hawai‘i at Hilo and Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York (2024); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2022); Warburton Galerie, Yonkers (2021); and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth (1995).

Her work is included in the public collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Department of State, Washington DC; Kenkeleba Gallery, New York; The Printmaking Workshop, New York; Experimental Printmaking Institution, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; The Horseman Foundation, Missouri; Frances Wolfson Art Center, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami; Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, CUNY, Queens College, New York; Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, Rockland Community College, SUNY; La Grange Art Museum, La Grange, GA; and Trinity Lutheran Church, New Milford, CT.

Stefanie Heinze (b. 1987, Berlin, Germany) lives and works in New York. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany, graduating in 2014, and the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway in 2012.

Her work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2026, 2022, 2019); Petzel, New York (2024, 2020); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2024); Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2021, 2017); Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2021); LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2025, 2019); and Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2018).

Select institutional group exhibitions include Museum Arnhem, Arnhem (2025); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Turin (2025); The Warehouse, Dallas (2023); L’Almanach 23 Biennial, Le Consortium, Dijon (2023);Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami (2022); Boros Foundation at Berghain, Berlin (2020); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2020); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2019); Saatchi Gallery, London (2017); and Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2013).

Her work is included in the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden; MAMCO Geneva, Geneva; Delfina Foundation, London; The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom; The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; Mead Gallery, Coventry, England; AMA Collection, Venice; and Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China.

Marguerite Humeau (b. 1986, Cholet, France) lives and works in London. She received an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2011, graduating with distinction, after completing a BA at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2009 and a BTS in Textile Design from ENSAAMA, Paris, in 2007.

Humeau is currently nominated for the 2026 Turner Prize.

Humeau participated in the 59th Venice Biennale, Venice (2022); 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (2022); British Art Show 9 (2021–22); 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2024); Ljubljana Biennale, Ljubljana (2024); 16th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2019); Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2020); Manifesta 11, Zurich (2016); and the 58th and 57th October Salons, Belgrade (2021, 2018).

She was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2019 and received the Zurich Art Prize in 2017, as well as the First Prize at the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art in 2016.

Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at White Cube, New York (2026); HAM, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland (2025); ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, Denmark (2025); ICA Miami, Florida (2024); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2021); Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany (2019); Museion, Bolzano, Italy (2019); New Museum, New York (2018); Tate Britain, London (2017); Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland (2017); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2017); Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2016); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016).

Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum of Art), Norway; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles; Olivia Foundation, Mexico; Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Museion, Bolzano; Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Museion Bolzano, Italy; Jupiter Artland Foundation, Edinburgh; UBS Art Collection; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Al Thani Collection; X Museum, Beijing; Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Asymmetry Art Foundation, London; Labora Collection, Texas; Majudia Collection, Canada; and Live Forever Foundation, Taichung City, Taiwan.

Nora Kapfer (b. 1984, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Select solo exhibitions have been held at Édouard Montassut, Paris (2024, 2021); FriArt Kunsthalle, Fribourg (2022); Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin (2020, 2018); Cento Gallery, Glasgow (2023); Loggia, Munich (2019, 2017); Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz (2018); Etablissement d’en face, Brussels (2017); and Garret Grimoire, Berlin (2016).

Recent group exhibitions include Image as Trace II, Brunette Coleman, London (2026); The Double, Dracula’s Revenge, New York (2026); Through Their Eyes, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (2026); Hoi Köln! Part 3: Nightmare of Painting, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2024); Jahresgaben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2023); among others.

Her work is included in the collections of the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna; the Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn; and the Pier Arts Centre Collection, Orkney.

Olivia van Kuiken (b. 1997, Chicago, Illinois) lives and works in New York. She received a BFA from Cooper Union, New York, in 2019.

Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Matthew Brown, New York (2025); Caprii, Düsseldorf (2024); Château Shatto, Los Angeles (2024); Chapter NY, New York (2023); and King’s Leap, New York (2022).

Select group exhibitions include Tibor de Nagy, New York (2026); Bortolami, New York (2025); Société, Berlin (2025); Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (2025); CLEARING, New York (2024); Micki Meng, New York (2024); Adler Beatty, New York (2024); Amanita, New York (2023); Bordenrader, Chicago (2023); Château Shatto, Los Angeles (2022); Chapter, New York (2022); and Hoffman Maler Wallenburg, Nice (2022).

Her work is in the collections Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon and Nixon Collection, London.

Heidi Lau (b. 1987) lives and works in New York, NY. She studied at New York University, New York, graduating in 2008.

Lau won the third edition of the Sigg Prize at M+ Hong Kong in 2025.

Solo exhibitions and two-person exhibitions include Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2024, 2020); Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2024); Bureau, New York (2023, with Biraaj Dodiya); Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn (2022); Grand Lisboa Palace, Macau (2021); AALA Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); Geary, New York (2018, with Rachel Frank); The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx (2018); Deli Gallery, New York (2016); Real Art Ways, Hartford (2016); Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham (2015); Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg (2015); Macao Art Museum, Macao (2014); and Kent Place Gallery, Summit (2013).

Institutional presentations include Sigg Prize 2025, M+ Museum, Hong Kong (2025); Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2025); The Jealous Potter, UCCA Clay Yixing, China (2025); Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+ Museum, Hong Kong (2024); Cosmos Cinema: The 14th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (2023); Liquid Ground, UCCA Dune, Beijing (2022); Collateral Exhibition, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice (2019); The Burke Prize 2018: The Future of Craft Part 2, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018).

Lau’s work is included in the collections of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; M+, Hong Kong, Kadist, San Francisco; New York Historical, New York; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Macao Museum of Art; Shiga Museum of Art; and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection.

Terry Winters (b. 1949, New York) lives and works in New York and Columbia County, New York. He received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute, New York in 1971.

Winters’s work was included in The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice (2013) and Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1995, 1987, 1985). His drawing survey Facts and Fictions, was held at The Drawing Center, New York (2018), and traveled to the University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2018).

His institutional solo exhibitions include The Structure of Things, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2016); The Painter’s Cabinet: Terry Winters’ Dialogue with Nature, Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria (2016); Printed Works 1999–2014 Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich (2014) and traveled to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2014).Signal to Noise, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2009); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2000); Graphic Primitives, Whitechapel Gallery, London (1999), which traveled to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1999); IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia (1998), which traveled to Whitechapel Gallery, London (1998); Prints by Terry Winters, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (1998); Terry Winters’ Folio, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1998); Drawing Redux, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (1992); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1991); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1987); Tate Gallery, London (1986); and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (1985).

Select solo exhibitions have been held at Modern Art, London (2026, 2022); Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Los Angeles (2024, 2021, 2018, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2005, 2004, 2001, 1999, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1990, 1986, 1984, 1982); Peder Lund, Oslo (2024, 2013); Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (2013, 2009); Fergus McCaffrey, Tokyo (2023); Lehmann Maupin, New York (2009); David Nolan Gallery, New York (2003, 2000); Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (2000); and White Cube, London (2002).

Winters’ work is included in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel; and The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

Masaomi Yasunaga (born 1982) lives and works in Iga-shi, Mie Prefecture, Japan. He has a Masters Degree in Environmental Design from Osaka Sangyo University.

Recent solo exhibitions include Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels (2024); Gallery 85.4, Tokyo (2024); Lisson Gallery, London (2023) and New York (2022) and East Hampton (2021); Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles (2023, 2019) and Sterling Ruby and Masaomi Yasunaga at Nonaka- Hill, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2020); Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, Auburn, USA (2023); wad Café, Osaka, Japan (2020); gallery YDS, Kyoto, Japan (2020); Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2020); Utsuwakan, Kyoto, Japan (2019); Gallery Utsuwa Note, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan (2018); Garb Domingo, Okinawa, Japan (2017); and pramata, Tokyo, Japan (2017).

Selected group exhibitions include Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles (2023), Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo (2023, The Noyes House, Connecticut(2022), Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu (2022).

His work is included in the permanent collections of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, Auburn, USA, the Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA.