#GagosianDeitch: "The Future," the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, is now live at gagosian-deitch.com. The online exhibition dares to imagine what the coming years may have in store. Given the heightened political, economic, and environmental uncertainties of our current moment, this undertaking could hardly be more complex. The work in "The Future" is highly diverse, reflecting myriad ways in which speculation inflects artists’ theoretical and formal concerns. Some contributions focus on key moments from real or projected timelines; others evoke an atmosphere or aesthetic by extrapolating—in the manner of the best science fiction—from already familiar circumstances. In still other cases, artists use new technologies in their production processes, or explore a contrast between more traditional media and futuristic imagery or thinking. Explore the exhibition via the link in our bio. __________ #Gagosian #JeffreyDeitch @jeffreydeitchgallery @artbasel @
#GagosianDeitch: "The Future," the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, is now live at gagosian-deitch.com. The online exhibition dares to imagine what the coming years may have in store. Given the heightened political, economic, and environmental uncertainties of our current moment, this undertaking could hardly be more complex. The work in "The Future" is highly diverse, reflecting myriad ways in which speculation inflects artists’ theoretical and formal concerns. Some contributions focus on key moments from real or projected timelines; others evoke an atmosphere or aesthetic by extrapolating—in the manner of the best science fiction—from already familiar circumstances. In still other cases, artists use new technologies in their production processes, or explore a contrast between more traditional media and futuristic imagery or thinking. Explore the exhibition via the link in our bio. __________ #Gagosian #JeffreyDeitch @jeffreydeitchgallery @artbasel D
#GagosianQuarterly: In a new article, Richard Calvocoressi reflects on the monochrome world of Gerhard Richter’s early photo paintings. Read the piece on “Gagosian Quarterly” via the link in our bio. An exhibition of Richter’s "Cage" paintings (2006) opens on Thursday, December 3, at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. The presentation follows their inclusion, as a cornerstone, in the artist’s retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York earlier this year. In conjunction with this key group of six paintings, a new group of drawings created by the artist on consecutive days over the summer of 2020 will be shown for the first time. __________ #GerhardRichter #Gagosian Gerhard Richter, “Aunt Marianne," 1965 © Gerhard Richter 2020 (0024)
#GagosianQuarterly: "I like the idea of a collaborative client/architect relationship where something unpredictable grows . . . It doesn’t come from any rules." —Frank Gehry In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Frank Gehry speaks to Jean-Louis Cohen about the early years of his practice, including his work with LA artists, and the role of sketching in his design process. The first volume of the catalogue raisonné of the architect’s drawings, edited by Cohen, was published by Cahiers d’Art earlier this year. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #FrankGehry #Gagosian @frankgehry @cahiersdart (1) Frank Gehry in front of his residence, Santa Monica, California, 1978; (2) Frank Gehry, Steeves House, Los Angeles, California," 1958–59. Artwork © Frank O. Gehry. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2017.M.66)
#GagosianOnline: Over the next eight days, almost twenty works will be made available on gagosian.com in four curated presentations for Art Basel Miami Beach Online. The first cycle is now live and presents five artworks featuring various strategies of material experimentation that demonstrate the innate power of abstraction. In 2012 Theaster Gates began to formalize his knowledge of roofing techniques into a new territory of experimental painting, working with tar to make the invisible roof legible. In a new suite of paintings completed this year, Gates has intensified this approach. Ellsworth Kelly expands the boundaries of painting as a medium by arranging two monochromatic canvases so that they enter into a sculptural relationship akin to low relief, thereby exploring dimensionality, depth, and projection on physical and visual terms. Pier Paolo Calzolari considers the sensual yet fragile presence of tobacco leaves against the perception of language as fixed, represented by the invariable neon text. Min
#HongKongSpotlight: Gagosian is pleased to participate in the inaugural Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel, now open at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This is the gallery’s third in-person art fair since the COVID-19 lockdown in March. The gallery is presenting works by Georg Baselitz, Urs Fischer, Damien Hirst, Alex Israel, Takashi Murakami, Takashi Murakami and Virgil Abloh, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, and Mary Weatherford. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #TakashiMurakami #Gagosian #ArtBasel @takashipom @artbasel Takashi Murakami, "Crimson Heart," 2020 © 2020 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
#GagosianQuarterly: "Exultant and fearless, Trisha Brown literally dove into a direct engagement with the forms of the architecture itself." —Hendel Teicher On the occasion of the Trisha Brown Dance Company’s fiftieth anniversary, Hendel Teicher examines the legendary choreographer’s work through a biographical lens. Follow the link in our bio to read the new "Gagosian Quarterly" article. __________ #Gagosian @trishabrowncompany (1) Trisha Brown, "Woman Walking Down a Ladder," New York, 1973. Pictured: Trisha Brown; (2) Trisha Brown, "Roof Piece," SoHo, New York, 1973. Photos © 1973 Babette Mangolte, all rights of reproduction reserved
#EdmunddeWaal: "I made these pots in lockdown during the spring and early summer. I was alone in my studio and silent and I needed to make vessels to touch and hold, to pass on. I needed to return to what I know—the bowl, the open dish, the lidded jar." —Edmund de Waal Gagosian is pleased to present "some winter pots," an exhibition of new works by artist and author Edmund de Waal. The show will go on view at Gagosian, Davies Street, London, on Thursday, December 3. This is the first time in sixteen years that de Waal has made single works that are not parts of installations. They are specifically designed to be touched and held in the hand. Follow the link in our bio to read more about the show. __________ #Gagosian @edmunddewaal Edmund de Waal, "winter pot (B10)," 2020 © Edmund de Waal. Photo: Alzbeta Jaresova
The Getty Research Institute has launched "12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha’s Archive," an interactive website that allows users to browse more than 65,000 photographs of Sunset Boulevard taken by Ed Ruscha between 1965 and 2007. The website allows users to “drive” down a digitally composited representation of this key urban artery, as well as to view, search, and compare geotagged photographs. Follow the link in our bio to visit the site. An exhibition of new paintings by Ruscha is on view at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York, through January 2021. Schedule an appointment for after the holiday via the link in our bio. __________ #EdRuscha #Gagosian @edruschaofficial @gettymuseum Ed Ruscha; (1) "Pacific Coast Highway," 1985; (2) "Cineramadome on Sunset Boulevard," 1985; (3) "Sunset Blvd. at Vin Scully Ave.," 2007; (4) "Sunset Blvd. at Olive Dr.," 1985; (5) "Sunset Blvd. at Echo Park Ave.," 2007; (6) From Sunset Blvd," 1966. Images from Streets of Los Angeles Archive. The Getty Research Institute, 2012.
#EwaJuszkiewicz: Ewa Juszkiewicz’s solo exhibition, "In vain her feet in sparkling laces glow," is now viewable through the storefront windows of Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, twenty-four hours a day. In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Lisa Small, senior curator of European art at the Brooklyn Museum, considers the historical precedents for Juszkiewicz’s painting practice. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @ewa_juszkiewicz @small.lisa (1) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled (after Joseph Karl Stieler)," 2020; (2) Ewa Juszkiewicz's studio. Artwork © Ewa Juszkiewicz. Photo: Ewa Juszkiewicz
On the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach, Gagosian is pleased to present works by modern and contemporary masters on two concurrent online platforms: Gagosian Online, which will feature four individually curated groupings of artworks in forty-eight-hour cycles, and OVR: Miami Beach. These presentations offer collectors direct access to diverse works in a wide variety of mediums. Among them are noteworthy paintings ranging from Helen Frankenthaler’s “Distant Barrier” (1992) to Theaster Gates’s “Power Against an Impossible Backdrop” (2020). Also featured are sculptures and installations, including Michael Heizer’s powerful “Split Scoria Negative Wall Sculpture” (2019) and Tatiana Trouvé’s “The Guardian” (2020). Among other offerings, new works by Georg Baselitz, Louise Bonnet, Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Katharina Grosse, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Houseago, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Sterling Ruby, Taryn Simon, and Rachel Whiteread will also be unveiled. To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works to
#GagosianQuarterly: "I value the craftsmanship of jewelry, the value of the stone, the beauty of the materials, of course, but there’s more to it than that. It’s an ancestral tradition that goes way beyond our modern concept of 'dressing up.'" —Gaia Repossi In a new "Gagosian Quarterly" article, Gaia Repossi, creative director of the Parisian jewelry house Repossi, speaks with the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier about her enduring love of Donald Judd, her use of photography and drawing in the design process, and the innovative collaborations, with visionaries like Rem Koolhaas and Flavin Judd, behind their retail spaces. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece. __________ #Gagoisan @gaiarepossi @repossi (1) Repossi store, Monaco. Photos: @florian_holzherr
#GagosianDeitch: Gagosian is pleased to announce "The Future," the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch during Art Basel Miami Beach. Previously staged at the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District, this year the collaborative project will be hosted on a new stand-alone website. In his 1909 "Manifesto of Futurism," Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti outlined the movement’s desire to abandon the past and accelerate toward a new aesthetic and societal model. Today, contemporary artists continue to imagine what may be coming next, their approaches ranging from earnest to tongue-in-cheek, from ardently utopian to grimly apocalyptic. Following "The Extreme Present"—last year’s collaborative exhibition, which focused on artists’ responses to then-contemporary conditions around the world—"The Future" dares to speculate on what the coming years may have in store. Given the heightened political, economic, and environmental uncertainties of our cur
#RudolfPolanszky: "Hypotetic," an exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky, closes this Saturday at Gagosian, Basel. A key player in the Vienna art scene, Polanszky creates cerebral yet tactile works that embrace chance occurrence. In the early 1990s, Polanszky began examining the formal potential of sculpture and mixed-media painting with the series "Reconstructions" (1991–). To make these richly textured works, he uses salvaged industrial materials such as acrylic glass, aluminum, mirrored foil, resin, silicone, and wire, recombining them into purely aesthetic forms divorced from their original uses and contexts. Inspired by his father’s profession as a jazz musician, Polanszky’s process of “ad hoc synthesis” produces compositions that oscillate between concrete objects and symbols of subjective perception. Follow the link in our bio for more. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, "Rudolf Polanszky: Hypotetic," Gagosian, Basel, September 15–November 28, 2020. Artwork © R
Tune in today at 1pm EST (7pm CET) to watch Katharina Grosse speak with writer, theorist, and filmmaker Alexander Kluge about his writings on Leibniz’s theory of the “separatrix” and its key impact on her new body of watercolors and paintings on canvas, on view at Gagosian, Rome, through January 2021. The conversation will be moderated by special guests Joachim Bernauer, director of Goethe-Institut Italien, and Julia Draganović, director of Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, Rome. For this online discussion, Bernauer and Draganović will be speaking live from the gallery while Grosse and Kluge will join remotely. To watch the live conversation, visit the link in our bio. _________ #KatharinaGrosse #Gagosian @katharinagrosse @goetheinstitut @villamassimo.de (1) Still from Alexander Kluge’s film "Separatrix" (2020), featuring Katharina Grosse’s painting "Untitled" (2019); (2) Installation view, "Katharina Grosse: Separatrix," Gagosian, Rome, October 31–December 12, 2020. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG
#GagosianQuarterly: "It’s precisely that lack of conventional good taste that keeps Derek Jarman's art relevant; the fact that it’s difficult to pick apart what’s inexcusably sentimental from what’s righteously abrasive keeps you interested." —Mark Hudson In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Mark Hudson considers Derek Jarman's enduring legacy and complex relationship to British culture. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #DerekJarman #Gagosian (1) Derek Jarman, 1981. Photo: Janette Beckman/Getty Images; (2) Derek Jarman in the garden at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, England. Photo: Geraint Lewis/Alamy Stock Photo
#GagosianSpotlight: “The most beautiful artistry is hidden.” —Jeff Wall As part of the "Extended Play” series, Art21 interviewed Jeff Wall in his Vancouver studio. The artist speaks about notions of artifice and truth in photography. Follow the link in our bio to watch the video. __________ #JeffWall #Gagosian @artnet @art21 Jeff Wall; (1) “Mask maker,” 2015; (2) "Changing room," 2014 (detail). Artwork © Jeff Wall
#GagosianSpotlight: "There is a distinction to be made between what I will call the 'manner' of photographing for advertising and most magazine work and that which we usually accept as a way of photographing that conforms to the criteria and attitudes of pictorial art. Not only a distinction but a conflict." —Jeff Wall On the occasion of a major survey of Andreas Gursky’s work at London’s Hayward Gallery in 2018, Gursky and Jeff Wall discuss the state of photography and the evolution of the medium. Follow the link in our bio to read the "Gagosian Quarterly" feature. __________ #JeffWall #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly Jeff Wall, "Men move an engine block," 2008 © Jeff Wall
#GregoryCrewdson: "An Eclipse of Moths," an exhibition of new work by Gregory Crewdson, closes today at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. For a recent episode of Gagosian Premieres, we celebrate the exhibition with author Malcolm Gladwell, film critic Elvis Mitchell, musician and author Jeff Tweedy, and the artist. Converging from three different locations—Great Barrington, Massachusetts; New York City; and Chicago—Crewdson, Gladwell, and Tweedy speak about Crewdson’s new body of work, our current moment, the American landscape, and the musical score that Tweedy composed in connection to the series. Mitchell joins from Los Angeles to take the audience on a walkthrough of the exhibition and share his experience of seeing the works for the first time. Watch the episode on IGTV or Youtube via the link in our bio. __________ #GagosianPremieres #Gagosian @crewdsonstudio @malcolmgladwell @theelvismitchell @jefftweedy Artwork © Gregory Crewdson. Behind-the-scenes material © Crewdson Studio. Video: @littledotstudios
#EdmunddeWaal: "cold mountain clay," an exhibition of new and recent works by Edmund de Waal, is now on view at Gagosian, Hong Kong. The exhibition takes its title from the famed "Cold Mountain" poems, a series of verses by the monk Hanshan, who, according to legend, lived as a recluse on a Chinese mountaintop during the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE). Inspired by Hanshan’s practice of writing on rocks, tree trunks, and cave walls—thereby letting the elements erode his verses—de Waal’s new works are made through a cycle of inscription and effacement. He begins by coating a wood panel in liquid kaolin; while the slip is still wet, he floats flecks of gold leaf and writes lines of Hanshan’s poetry in graphite, oil stick, and charcoal. He then brushes these marks with additional layers of slip, repeating the process multiple times to produce a “fugitive poem,” a palimpsest of text that emulates the haze of memory. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition. __________ #Gagosian @edmunddewaal Inst
#GagosianSpotlight: “I use the word cinematography for my photography because it shares certain characteristics for the way photography is done for film. There’s some preparation done before the photograph is taken, but also there’s some collaboration with other people. ‘Stagecraft,’ I guess you’d call it.” —Jeff Wall In an interview by “Nowness,” filmed last year during the installation of his exhibition at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, Jeff Wall discusses the evolution of his process and the role of photography as both an art form and a documentary device. Follow the link in our bio to watch the video. __________ #JeffWall #Gagosian @nowness Jeff Wall; (1) "Morning Cleaning, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona," 1999; (2) "In front of a nightclub," 2006; (3) "Picture for Women," 1979. Artwork © Jeff Wall
Congratulations to Patti Smith, who recently received the 2020 Literature Innovator award at the Wall Street Journal Magazine’s Innovator Awards. Smith features on the cover of a special-edition Innovators issue of the magazine. The poet, artist, and award-winning memoirist and musician was honored for the indelible mark she has made on American letters and for her decades of revelatory work. Follow the link in our bio to read the feature online or to watch the virtual award ceremony. Smith's segment begins at 35:13. __________ #PattiSmith #WSJInnovators #Gagosian @thisispattismith @wsjmag Patti Smith on the cover of Wall Street Journal's November 2020 Innovator Issue. Photo: @stevensebring for WSJ Magazine
#JennySavile: "Elpis," an exhibition of new paintings by Jenny Saville, is on view at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, through December 22. Saville's references and techniques span Western art history—combining the striking chiaroscuro of Baroque portraiture with the dappled light of Impressionist plein air painting—and also encompass snapshots and visual effects from everyday life. The raw chromatic vitality of her new works was largely inspired by her recent travels to Australia, where she encountered the luminous, fleshy palette of Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s virtuoso paintings. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to schedule a slot to visit the exhibition. _________ #Repost: @jennysavilleofficial #JennySaville #Gagosian (1, 2) Jenny Saville, "Arcadia," 2020 © Jenny Saville; (3, 4) Jenny Saville’s studio, Oxford, England, 2020; (5) Detail of Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," 1914–26. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris; (6) Flower arrangement; (3–6) Photos: Jenny Saville
#TheasterGates: "I'm grateful to be a vessel. To have a life that allows me to devote myself to giving space and form to my thoughts. I feel tasked with making emptiness apparent and potent." —Theaster Gates Theaster Gates’s first-ever solo exhibition in New York, "Black Vessel," is on view at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, through January 23, 2021. Gates conceives of the vessel as a container of the concrete, the symbolic, and the spiritual—a metaphor for embodied existence or a means by which to gather communities together in time and space. For him, the clay vessel is a universal object of ritual significance. In a diverse group of unique large-scale works in glazed and fired clay, his evident formal virtuosity unites ancient traditions with modernist aesthetics, and draws elective affinities between Eastern, Western, and African techne. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @theastergates (1, 4, 7) Installation view, "Theaster
#GagosianSpotlight: “Control, like accident, has innumerable meanings, and appears in endless different ways in the process of making photographs, or any art.” —Jeff Wall Gagosian is pleased to offer Jeff Wall’s “Low tide” for $65,000, now available for forty-eight hours only. Wall began photographing the low tide at the Spanish Banks beaches on English Bay in Vancouver, Canada, during an unexpected interlude in his hometown this summer. In “Low tide,” the sinuous tufts of seaweed in the foreground are partially above the water, where their looping forms are more crisply defined, their greens deeper, and are partially submerged in the bay, where their edges are softer and almost painterly. Wall’s photograph records the endlessly varied and shifting patterns created in the seaweed by the ebb and flow of the tide, which become static—as if fixed in a photograph—once the water has retreated. Follow the link in our bio for more information or to make an inquiry. __________ #JeffWall #Gagosian Jeff Wall, “Low ti
#MelekoMokgosi: "In order to negotiate these representational spaces, I use allegory to rewrite or reimagine preexisting texts with the hopes of compelling the viewer to acknowledge and reconcile their biases and methods of interpretation." —Meleko Mokgosi Meleko Mokgosi’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom and Europe, "Democratic Intuition," recently opened at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. Head to "Gagosian Quarterly" to read an essay by Mokgosi on his eight-chapter painting cycle, an epic of southern African life and folklore. Louise Neri contributes an introduction to the artist's work. The text was originally published as the preface to the comprehensive catalogue “Meleko Mokgosi: Democratic Intuition,” published by Pacific with Jack Shainman Gallery. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece or to explore Mokgosi's exhibition online. __________ #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @jackshainman @pacific_pacific (1, 6) Installation views, "Meleko Mokgosi: Democratic Intuition," Gagosian, Britan
#GagosianSpotlight: “The figures appearing in my photographs are phantoms, in a way . . .” —Jeff Wall Jeff Wall speaks with David Rimanelli about the physicality of photography and the persistence of certain motifs throughout his career. The conversation took place last year, on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at Gagosian, New York. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece on "Gagosian Quarterly." Tomorrow at 6am EST, a new work by the artist will be unveiled. Stay tuned! __________ #JeffWall #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly Jeff Wall; (1) "Weightlifter," 2015; (2) "Parent child," 2018. Artwork © Jeff Wall
#EdmunddeWaal: "cold mountain clay," an exhibition of new and recent works by Edmund de Waal, opens tomorrow at Gagosian, Hong Kong. The exhibition takes its title from the famed "Cold Mountain" poems, a series of verses by the monk Hanshan, who, according to legend, lived as a recluse on a Chinese mountaintop during the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE). Composed with diaristic frankness and intensity, the poems address the unavoidable passage of time and trace the introspective state that comes with monastic solitude. Follow the link in our bio for more. _________ #Gagosian @edmunddewaal Edmund de Waal, "cold mountain, I," 2020 © Edmund de Waal
#GagosianSpotlight: "Such compositional gambits contrast or even conflict with the sense that these scenes have not been arranged for us but rather that we have happened upon them in a delirious instant." —Daniel Spaulding In a new piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Daniel Spaulding considers formal and technical developments in Jeff Wall’s work against the background of global shifts of power and politics, specifically the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #JeffWall #Gagosian Jeff Wall; (1) "A ventriloquist at a birthday party in October 1947," 1990; (2) "A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)," 1993; (3) "The Vampires’ Picnic," 1991. Artwork © Jeff Wall
To mark the publication of “Meleko Mokgosi: Democratic Intuition” Gagosian and Jack Shainman Gallery will host a dialogue between the artist and critic Antwaun Sargent today at 1pm EST. Published by Pacific with Jack Shainman Gallery, the book documents Mokgosi’s epic painting project "Democratic Intuition" (2013–20), which explores the internal contradictions of the theory that the function of democracy is dependent upon accessible education. Compelling genre scenes, often involving prominent figures from African public life, jump-cut between the confines of manual work, the freedoms of intellectual enterprise, and their ties to gender and race. In a conversation introduced by Gagosian director Louise Neri and moderated by Jack Shainman Gallery director Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, Mokgosi and Sargent will revisit their featured dialogue in the book and discuss the artist’s interdisciplinary investigation of postcolonial nationhood and the democratic process. Follow the link in our bio to register. This is t
#GagosianQuarterly: The Winter 2020 issue of "Gagosian Quarterly" is now available! For the last issue of the year, we invited a selection of artists, authors, and theorists to reflect on this perplexing moment in history and to speculate on how we can find hope in the coming years. Featuring Jenny Saville’s “Prism” (2020) on its cover, and an interview with the artist inside, the issue includes a special supplement guest edited by curator Alison M. Gingeras and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, entitled “New Interiorities.” Also inside the issue, Meleko Mokgosi writes on his eight-chapter painting cycle "Democratic Intuition," and provides an astounding reading list oriented around the question of democracy; Tatiana Trouvé shares a portfolio of drawings made during the initial pandemic lockdown; we witness the culmination of Anne Boyer’s short-story series “Iconoclasts”; and much more. Follow the link in our bio to read the issue online or to order a copy from Gagosian Shop. __________ #JennySaville #Gagosi
#GagosianSpotlight: "Many years ago I used the term 'liquid intelligence' to talk about photography. I was referring mainly to the water used in film processing, but now I think that my affection for the role water plays in photography is probably also connected to my being a coastal person." —Jeff Wall In a new piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Jeff Wall speaks to Gary Dufour about his new photographs, made on the beachfront of English Bay in Vancouver, Canada, that record the endlessly varied and shifting patterns created in seaweed by the ebb and flow of the tide. The pair also discuss how these pieces connect to Wall’s earlier work, as well as the work of other photographers including Alfred Stieglitz. Follow the link in our bio to read the interview. __________ #JeffWall #Gagosian Jeff Wall; (1) "Low tide gull shadow," 2020; (2) "The Flooded Grave," 1998–2000. Artwork © Jeff Wall
#JayDeFeo: Tune in today at 8pm EST for conversation between Corey Keller, curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and artists Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Rayyane Tabet on Jay DeFeo’s photography and the ways in which her highly experimental practice continues to resonate with photographers working today. Organized by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, the discussion will be moderated by Emily Markert, a curatorial fellow at the Wattis Institute. Follow the link in our bio to register for the event or to read more about DeFeo in a new article for "Gagosian Quarterly." Alice Godwin explores the shifts in her practice in the 1970s, considering the familiar objects that became recurrent subjects in her work during these years and their relationship to the human body. ________ #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @jaydefeofoundation @coreykeller510 @pagmi @wattisarts @sleepwhenimded Jay DeFeo; (1) "Untitled," 1979 (detail); (2) "Untitled," 1976. Artwork © 2020 The Jay De
#GagosianSpotlight: This week, Jeff Wall features in Artist Spotlight. From his pioneering use of backlit color transparencies in the 1970s to his intricately staged scenes of enigmatic incidents from daily life, literature, and film, Wall has expanded the definition of the photograph, both as object and as illusion. His pictures range from classical reportage and the direct contemplation of natural forms to elaborate constructions and montages, usually produced at a large scale traditionally identified with painting. A new work by the artist will be unveiled on gagosian.com on Friday, November 20, at 6am EST. For updates or to learn more, follow the link in our bio. __________ #JeffWall #Gagosian Photo: Andrew Querner
“There is a diversity in the way people see. Some always see flat. Others always in perspective.” —Robert Therrien Robert Therrien was born on this day, November 17, in Chicago. Head to “Gagosian Quarterly” to read Aimee Gabbard’s feature honoring the extraordinary life of Robert Therrien (1947–2019) and exploring his lifelong interest in photography. Follow the link in our bio. _________ #RobertTherrien #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @roberttherrientrust Robert Therrien; (1) “No title (self-portrait in kitchen),” c. 1995; (2) “No title (sawing log),” c. 1993–94; (3) “No title (pots and pans),” c. 1994; (4) "No title (dish rack)," c. 1995. Artwork © Robert Therrien/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
#EdRuscha: An exhibition of new paintings by Ed Ruscha is on view at 541 West 24th Street, New York, through January, 2021. Since the 1960s, Ruscha has created a distinctive and ever-expanding lexicon of signs, symbols, images, and words drawn from vernacular America. His visual utterances, sounds, and concepts—such as the roadside gas station or the word “OOF”—have become embedded in the American ethos. He has presented recurring images—the American flag, mountains, books, and words—that are suggestive yet never didactic, and the development of these images over the course of his illustrious career exemplifies the wry refinement and subtlety with which he speaks through painting. In these new works, Ruscha has chosen to revisit the flag, the mountain, and the tire. Follow the link in our bio to schedule an appointment to visit the exhibition. _________ #Gagosian @edruschaofficial Installation views, "Ed Ruscha: Paintings," Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York. November 14, 2020–January 23, 2021. Photos:
#EwaJuszkiewicz: "In vain her feet in sparkling laces glow," an exhibition of new paintings by Ewa Juszkiewicz, is now open. The installation is viewable exclusively through the storefront windows of Gagosian Park & 75, New York, twenty-four hours a day. Through meticulous technique and an acute sensitivity to color, Juszkiewicz engineers strangeness without compromising the aesthetic harmony of the images from which she works. Classical in method but subversive in intent, her paintings eerily deconstruct ideals of feminine beauty and other societal clichés. In remaking depictions of the wives, mothers, or daughters of privilege, but stripping away what remains of their subjective individualities, Juszkiewicz’s faceless portraits narrate a history of feminine erasure that courses through the Western art historical canon. Follow the link in our bio for more. __________ #Gagosian @ewa_juszkiewicz Installation views, "Ewa Juszkiewicz: In vain her feet in sparkling laces glow," Gagosian, Park & 75, New York. Nov
Today at 2pm EST, tune in for a conversation on Jay DeFeo between Los Angeles–based art historian and critic Suzanne Hudson, Seattle-based art historian and independent curator Dana Miller, and New York–based artist Clifford Ross. The trio will discuss the unique place DeFeo occupies in art history, shaped by a diverse body of work that defies categorization, a practice situated outside of the American art centers of New York and Los Angeles, and relationships with other artists of her generation. Follow the link in our bio to register. __________ #JayDeFeo #Gagosian @jaydefeofoundation (1,3) Jay DeFeo’s studio in Larkspur, California, June 1975 (2) Jay DeFeo, “Untitled,” 1980 © 2020 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Work by Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Louise Bonnet, Piero Golia, Meleko Mokgosi, and Nancy Rubins is featured in “Show Me The Signs,” an online benefit auction hosted by Artfizz to support the families of Black women killed by the police with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the African American Policy Forum. Bidding ends on Monday, November 30. Follow the link in our bio to view the works. __________ #NathanielMaryQuinn #Gagosian #SayHerName @louisebonnetstudio @new_atlantis @nathanielmaryquinn @nancyrubinsstudio @aapolicyforum @artfizz (1) Nathaniel Mary Quinn, ”Breonna Taylor,“ 2020 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn; (2) Louise Bonnet, "Enough," 2020 © Louise Bonnet; (3) Piero Golia, "Aluminum Sign (You Can Look Away But You Can’t Pretend You Don’t Know)," 2020 © Piero Golia; (4) Meleko Mokgosi, "Untitled," 2020 © Meleko Mokgosi; (5) Nancy Rubins, "Drawing for Breonna," 2020 © Nancy Rubins
#EwaJuszkiewicz: "That these sharply painted curls evoke seashells or finely wrought metalwork suggests that Juszkiewicz is as much engaged with still life as she is with portraiture." —Lisa Small Ewa Juszkiewicz's exhibition of new oil paintings, "In vain her feet in sparkling laces glow," opens tomorrow at Gagosian, Park & 75, New York. In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Lisa Small, senior curator of European art at the Brooklyn Museum, considers the historical precedents for Juszkiewicz’s painting practice. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @ewa_juszkiewicz @small.lisa (1) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled (after Joseph Karl Stieler)," 2020 © Ewa Juszkiewicz; (2) Master of Egerton, "Métamorphose de Daphné," in the illuminated manuscript of Christine de Pizan’s "Épître d’Othéa," c. 1400–10 (detail), Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des manuscrits
Gagosian is pleased to support the Coalition for the Homeless’s Artist Plate Project fundraiser. Artwork by fifty artists, including Cecily Brown, Katharina Grosse, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Sarah Sze, Andy Warhol, Jonas Wood, and Christopher Wool, is featured on limited-edition dinner plates produced by Prospect and made available through Artware Editions to support the Coalition’s lifesaving programs. All of the funds raised by the sale of the plates will provide food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability. The purchase of one plate for $175 can feed seventy-five homeless and hungry New Yorkers. The sale is now live through December 15. Follow the link in our bio. __________ #ArtistPlateProject #Gagosian @ArtistPlateProject @NYhomeless @katharina_grosse @edruschaofficial @sarahszestudio @sterlingruby @jonasbrwood (1) © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2020; (2) © Ed Ruscha; (3) © Sarah Sze; (4) © Sterling Ruby; (5)
#GagosianQuarterly: "Many of us today believe that we’re living at a turning point. While we’re grateful for the rapid developments we’ve seen in science and technology, they are quietly changing our aesthetics and our thoughts. Behind the many difficulties we face is a deep spiritual crisis: in contemporary society, the divine is fading away." —Jia Aili Jia Aili speaks with "Gagosian Quarterly" about interrogating perceptions, questioning illusions, and the primacy of intuition. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece or to learn more about the artist's solo booth presented at ART021 Shanghai 2020 this weekend. __________ #JiaAili #Gagosian @jiaaili_studio Jia Aili studio 2017–18. Photos: Jia Aili. Artwork © Jia Aili
#WestBundArtFair: This weekend, Gagosian participated in West Bund Art & Design. Featured artists included Georg Baselitz, Huma Bhabha, Dan Colen, John Currin, Urs Fischer, Helen Frankenthaler, Theaster Gates, Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, Simon Hantaï, Hao Liang, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Tetsuya Ishida, Alex Israel, Y.Z. Kami, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Rudolf Polanszky, Sterling Ruby, Sarah Sze, Adriana Varejão, Mary Weatherford, Tom Wesselmann, Rachel Whiteread, and Zeng Fanzhi. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the works. __________ #Gagosian Installation views and video, Gagosian, Booth A102, West Bund Art & Design, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, November 12–15, 2020 © All artworks copyrighted
Congratulations to Titus Kaphar, who received the 2020 Art Innovator award at the Wall Street Journal Magazine’s Innovator Awards earlier this week. Kaphar will feature on the cover of a special-edition Innovators issue of the magazine. The issue also includes an interview with the artist, in which he speaks about creating a new artistic canon and breaking the mold for art nonprofits at NXTHVN. Follow the link in our bio to read the feature online or watch the virtual award ceremony. Kaphar's segment begins at 18:56. __________ #TitusKaphar #WSJInnovators #Gagosian @__nxthvn__ @wsjmag (1) Titus Kaphar in his studio, New Haven, Connecticut; (2) Titus Kaphar on the cover of Wall Street Journal's November 2020 Innovator Issue. Photos: @mario_sorrenti. Artwork © Titus Kaphar
“Self-reference is something that I find almost inescapable in an artwork. The mark made by one's hand is telling.” ーSpencer Sweeney Happy birthday to Spencer Sweeney, born on this day, November 15, in Philadelphia. In his paintings, drawings, and collages, Sweeney invokes the spirit of “availabism” (a term coined by performance artist Kembra Pfahler, to describe making art with materials at hand), interweaving images of disarming psychological directness with a fluid and multilayered examination of the creative process itself. Sweeney’s new painting “Moving In” is included in the exhibition “Bustes de Femmes,” which opened at Gagosian, Paris, last month. Follow the link in our bio to explore the show online. ________ #SpencerSweeney #Gagosian @dirtyroomba Photo: Peter Sieper
#ART021: Gagosian presented a solo booth of new paintings by Jia Aili at ART021 Shanghai 2020 this weekend. Moving between genre painting, portraiture, fantasy, and abstraction, Jia creates epic tableaux that both emerge from and challenge art historical assumptions in the context of a rapidly changing world. In this new series, Jia depicts mountain ranges from around the globe, including sites in China and Switzerland. One of these mountain paintings was presented as a special installation in the gallery’s booth. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the works or to make an inquiry. __________ #JiaAili #Gagosian @jiaaili_studio @art021_sh Installation views and videos, "Jia Aili: ART021 Shanghai 2020," Booth C02, Shanghai Exhibition Center, November 14–15, 2020. Artwork © Jia Aili
#WestBundArtFair: Simon Hantaï, Rudolf Polanszky, Tom Wesselmann, and Takashi Murakami are among the artists featured in Gagosian's extensive group presentation at West Bund Art & Design 2020, on view through tomorrow. The gallery’s participation was made possible by extraordinary support from the artists involved. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or make an inquiry. __________ #Gagosian @tom_wesselmann @takashipom @westbundartfair (1) Simon Hantaï, "Blancs," 1974 © Archives Simon Hantaï/ADAGP, Paris; (2) Rudolf Polanszky, "Reconstructions/Dark Mirrors" 2018 (detail) © Rudolf Polanszky; (3) Tom Wesselmann, "Breakout," 1996 © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York; (4) Takashi Murakami, "Untitled," 2018 © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
#EdRuscha: An exhibition of new paintings by Ed Ruscha is now open at 541 West 24th Street, New York. Since the 1960s, Ruscha has created a distinctive and ever-expanding lexicon of signs, symbols, images, and words drawn from vernacular America. His visual utterances, sounds, and concepts have become embedded in the American ethos. He has presented recurring images that are suggestive yet never didactic, and the development of these images over the course of his illustrious career exemplifies the wry refinement and subtlety with which he speaks through painting. In these new works, Ruscha has chosen to revisit the flag, the mountain, and the tire. Follow the link in our bio to schedule an appointment. _________ #Gagosian @edruschaofficial Ed Ruscha, "Untitled," 2020 © Ed Ruscha
#BustesdeFemmes: Over the coming weeks, we will be sharing works from "Bustes de Femmes: Paris 10th Anniversary Exhibition,” which opened at Gagosian, Paris, earlier this month. Spanning a breadth of stylistic and conceptual approaches, the paintings, sculptures, and photographs demonstrate how the female figure has been reimagined and reconfigured by modern and contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds and traditions. Works by John Currin, Roe Ethridge, Roy Lichtenstein, and Henry Moore feature in the first cycle. Follow the link in our bio to view more works on gagosian.com in environments both real and virtual designed by India Mahdavi. __________ #Gagosian @indiamahdavi @roeethridge @henrymoorestudios Installation views, "Bustes de Femmes: Paris 10th Anniversary Exhibition," Gagosian, Paris, October 10–December 19, 2020. Artwork, left to right: (1) Roy Lichtenstein, “Green Head,” 1986 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein; Henry Moore, (2) “Reclining Figure: Umbilicus,” 1984, reproduced by permission of The
#WestBundArtFair: Katharina Grosse, Tetsuya Ishida, Theaster Gates, and Georg Baselitz are among the artists featured in Gagosian's extensive group presentation currently on view at West Bund Art & Design 2020. Along with the gallery’s booth at ART021 Shanghai, this is Gagosian’s first in-person art fair since the COVID-19 lockdown in March. The gallery’s participation was made possible by extraordinary support from the artists involved. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #TetsuyaIshida #TheasterGates #KatharinaGrosse #GeorgBaselitz #Gagosian (1) Katharina Grosse, "Untitled," 2019 © Katharina Grosse (2) Tetsuya Ishida, "Untitled (Human and TV,” 1995 (detail) © Estate of Tetsuya Ishida; (3) Theaster Gates, "Vessel # 9," 2020 © Theaster Gates; (4) Georg Baselitz, "Jahre später," 2019 (detail) © Georg Baselitz