Nicolo Gentile — Coming, Undone
May 30 — June 27
Coming, Undone brings together suspended works, sculpture, drawings, and wax casts in an installation exploring queer memory through shifting visibility. Steel grates and chain curtains create spaces where bodies briefly appear before slipping from view. Drawing from nightlife and urban space, and influenced by Gregg Araki and New Queer Cinema, Nicolo Gentile considers how desire and loss continue to shape queer experience, treating the past not as something fixed or fully knowable, but as something carried through atmosphere, image and encounter.
Nicolo Gentile (b. 1991, Ithaca, NY) is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at Temple Contemporary and Automat in Philadelphia; Fragment Gallery in New York; LVL3 in Chicago; Portland Contemporary; and SOIL in Seattle, as well as in Paris and Melbourne. Gentile is a recipient of the Velocity Fund and a forthcoming artist-in-residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles.
Put to Wrest (Bust Negative), 2026, Expanded metal sheet, mild steel, offset magazine print on coated paper, 37.5 in H × 64.5 in W (95.3 × 163.8 cm)
Put to Wrest (Bust) I, 2025, Expanded metal sheet, mild steel, offset magazine print on coated paper, found locks 72 in H × 66 in W (182.9 × 167.6 cm)
Put to Wrest (Bust) II, 2026, Expanded metal sheet, mild steel, offset magazine print on coated paper, 46 in H × 42 in W (116.8 × 106.7 cm)
Tough Love (John in Violet Light), 2026, Nickel-plated steel ball chain, automotive enamel, 106 in H × 66 in W (269.2 × 167.6 cm)
Tough Love (Last Motel Before Morning), 2026, Nickel-plated steel ball chain, automotive enamel, 106 in H × 66 in W (269.2 × 167.6 cm)
Tough Love (Luke at the End of the World), 2026, Nickel-plated steel ball chain, automotive enamel, 106 in H × 157 in W (269.2 × 398.8 cm)
Drop My Body, 2026, Paraffin wax, cotton wicks, leather dye, 32 in L x 28 in W x 4 in H (81.3 × 71.1 × 10.2 cm)
Frame I: Luke, 2026, Graphite on paper, oak frame, 15.5 in H × 19 in W × 1.5 in D (39.4 × 48.3 × 3.8 cm)
Frame II: John, 2026, Graphite on paper, oak frame, 15.5 in H × 19 in W × 1.5 in D (39.4 × 48.3 × 3.8 cm)
Frame III: First Kiss, 2026, Graphite on paper, oak frame, 15.5 in H × 19 in W × 1.5 in D (39.4 × 48.3 × 3.8 cm)
Frame IV: Last Embrace, 2026, Graphite on paper, oak frame, 15.5 in H × 19 in W × 1.5 in D (39.4 × 48.3 × 3.8 cm)
Frame V: Desert Rearview, 2026, Graphite on paper, oak frame, 15.5 in H × 19 in W × 1.5 in D (39.4 × 48.3 × 3.8 cm)
Frame VI: Highway, 2026, Graphite on paper, oak frame, 15.5 in H × 19 in W × 1.5 in D (39.4 × 48.3 × 3.8 cm)
Frame VII: Flat Tire, 2026, Graphite on paper, oak frame, 15.5 in H × 19 in W × 1.5 in D (39.4 × 48.3 × 3.8 cm)
Hold on Me (Cable Flyes) IV, 2025, Cast and electroformed aluminum sourced from demolition site on knurled and chromed steel, cable mount, expanded metal sheet, offset magazine print on coated paper, 36 in L × 9 in W × 3 in D (91.4 × 22.9 × 7.6 cm)
Hold on Me (Cable Flyes) II, 2024, Cast and electroformed aluminum sourced from demolition site on knurled and chromed steel, cable mount, expanded metal sheet, offset magazine print on coated paper, 36 in L × 9 in W × 3 in D (91.4 × 22.9 × 7.6 cm)
Hold on Me (Cable Flyes) III, 2025, Cast and electroformed aluminum sourced from demolition site on knurled and chromed steel, cable mount, expanded metal sheet, offset magazine print on coated paper, 36 in L × 9 in W × 3 in D. (91.4 × 22.9 × 7.6 cm)