Meredith Rosen Gallery presents God is good, Catharine Czudej’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, marking the debut at its new location at 327 West 36th Street. Opening September 2, 2025, with a reception from 6-8 pm, the show runs through September 27, open Tuesday-Friday 12-5 pm and Saturday 12-4 pm. Czudej’s work explores consumerism, blending roles of artist, retailer, gamer, and collector. The exhibition features six large-scale black-and-white paintings incorporating barcodes, crosses, and QR-like grids, rendered nonfunctional through a process of painting, cutting, and recombining canvas. A custom merchandise line, including $50 t-shirts (or trade-ins), extends Czudej’s “Practical Magic” storefront concept. A video work, Don’t Stop Moving, draws from gaming culture, humorously probing gamification’s influence. Czudej, born 1985, holds a BFA from NYU (2007) and MFA from UCLA (2016), with prior exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Sadie Coles HQ, and others.

Catharine Czudej: God is Good / Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York. Opening reception, September 2, 2025.

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Exhibition text (excerpt):

Meredith Rosen Gallery is pleased to present God is good, a solo exhibition of new work by gallery artist Catharine Czudej. This is Czudej’s third solo exhibition with Meredith Rosen and the inaugural show at 327 West 36th Street. The exhibition opens on September 2nd with a reception from 6-8 pm. 

Troubling the boundaries between artist, retailer and gamer and collector and consumer, God is good makes strange our own consumption and reconstructs it as a product in and of itself. The exhibition includes six new paintings, and a line of merchandise made specifically for the exhibition lit by a crude overhead lighting system improvised from extension cords. Building on her practice of reconfiguring everyday objects and symbols, Czudej draws viewers’ attention to the materials and language which have become invisible through banality of late capitalist consumer culture. 

In the new large scale black and white paintings, Czudej references digital language, religious symbology and the grid. Sections of bar codes and crosses appear and submerge as gridded forms suggest QR codes which become unusable through the painting process. Czudej made the new series of works through a process of painting, cutting and recombining the canvas—pushing the forms in and out of recognition and functionality. 

Czudej’s post digital inquiry into the vestigial structures of consumerism are channeled through Don’t Stop Moving, a cinematic take on first-person video games. Drawing from twitch and youtube monologues, Czudej’s protagonist slowly amasses a body count. Her humorous and absurdist lens charts the tools of gamification, asking where culture derives from and where the game begins and ends. The line of merchandise, made specifically for this exhibition, serves as an extension of Czudej’s experimental storefront “Practical Magic” which Czudej refers to as a “Lamp Shop” which she operated out the back of her Brooklyn studio, into the gallery space. Visitors can buy a t-shirt  for $50 or swap for the one they’re wearing.

God is good is on view from September 2 through September 27, Tuesdays through Fridays from 12-5pm, Saturdays from 12-4 pm.

Catharine Czudej (b. 1985) lives and works in New York. She holds a BFA from New York University (2007) and an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2016). Selected solo exhibitions include Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Meredith Rosen Gallery (2023, 2020); Josh Lilley Gallery (2022); Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy (2016); Ramiken Crucible (2014, 2015). Selected group exhibitions include Great Works, Galerie Oskar Weiss (2025); Sadie Coles HQ, London (2024); Kammel Menour,Paris curated by Cloe Perrone (2017); Venus Over Manhattan, Los Angeles (2017); Eva Presenhuber Zurich curated by Alexandra Economonou (2016); Isabela Bortolozzi Curated by Ed Atkins (2015); Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain (2015); Pace Gallery, London (2014). In 2015 she received the Pirelli Prize, Art Brussels, followed by the Fürstenberg Fellowship, Germany (2017).