Company Gallery is pleased to announce Gentle Tug on Thigh, a solo exhibition of new works on paper and soft sculptures by Jonathan Lyndon Chase, on view November 6–December 20, 2025. The exhibition highlights drawing as a central thread in Chase’s practice, where the body becomes a vessel balancing structure and softness.

Known mostly for their paintings, which blur abstraction and figuration, Chase also works with textiles and nontraditional media such as animation, bookmaking, and large-scale installations. The works in Gentle Tug on Thigh trace a continuous dialogue between mediums, revealing how ideas shift while maintaining their emotional core. Here, drawing becomes not only a method but a language spoken quietly, yet with remarkable depth.

Often made after the paintings, Chase’s works on paper serve as points of return rather than replication. While painting is spontaneous and gestural, their sketches unfold slowly, with a more deliberate touch. Stripped of cityscapes and explicit settings, they inhabit a suspended space between the tangible and the imagined, emphasizing form and control over fluidity and release. “It’s not a one-way journey,” Chase explains. “The paintings form the basis of the drawings.” Through the direct movement of hand across paper, each mark holds resonance, capturing the intimacy of communication within these notations. This physical connection establishes a deliberate exchange between the artist and the page, where traces of the body register thought, rhythm, and emotion.

Within the gallery, a row of works is installed in sequence, echoing the framework of Chase’s sketchbooks. This arrangement reflects a system of organizing and archiving that is both methodical and deeply personal. Alongside these works, soft sculptures extend from the drawn figures into the physical space. Their rounded forms carry the haptic, intimate qualities of sewing and handwork, emphasizing touch and materiality. Neither fixed portraits nor singular identities, these figures exist as mutable, embodied representations of the self and community.