#RichardPrince: Gagosian is pleased to present "Family Tweets," a new book by Richard Prince published through Fulton Ryder. Works from the publication are now on view in the 976 Madison Avenue gallery behind the bookstore. "Family Tweets" documents Prince’s project at Desert X in Southern California’s Coachella Valley in 2017. The site offered to Prince was an abandoned house in Desert Hot Springs, where he installed—inside and out—printouts from his “birdtalk” blog relating to his family, most of which were posted on the @richardprince4 Twitter feed in 2014. The printouts were made in a variety of mediums. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #Gagosian @shopgagosian @richardprince_official (1) Installation view, "Richard Prince: Third Place," Desert X, Desert Hot Springs, California, 2017. Photo: Lance Gerber; (2) "Richard Prince: Family Tweets" (New York: Fulton Ryder, 2021)
#GagosianQuarterly: "Biography is portrait painting. It’s not only an earnest accumulation of facts, a piece of heavy baggage, an attic, a storeroom, an archive; it’s a reflection. And that means you leave some things out, put other things in, juxtapose magically. You work with figure and ground. There can be different kinds of portraits, but the good ones come alive, in the book and on the wall." —Mark Stevens In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, coauthors of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Willem de Kooning, speak with Michael Cary about the research and revelations that went into their biography of Francis Bacon. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #FrancisBacon #Gagosian @francisbaconartist Francis Bacon in his early twenties. Photo: Francis Julian Gutmann, London (courtesy MB Art Collection)
#AdrianaVarejao: "Though in her paintings Varejão works from traces and remnants of Talavera, these ruins remain traces and remnants of a time that is past, but whose echoes darken the present and clamor for collective reckoning." —Luisa Duarte "Talavera," an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, is on view at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. In a new piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Curator Luisa Duarte considers the artist’s oeuvre, writing on Varejão’s active engagement with theories of difference, as well as the cultural specters of the past. Follow the link in our bio to read the article and to schedule an appointment to see the exhibition. __________ #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @adrianavarejao @luisamduarte (1) Adriana Varejão in her studio, Rio de Janeiro, 2021. Photo: courtesy the artist; (2, 4) Installation views, "Adriana Varejão: Talavera," Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, May 3–June 26, 2021. Photo: Rob McKeever; (3) Adriana Varejão, "Jaguar," 2020 (detail). Pho
#SterlingRuby: “Sterling Ruby at Cycladic: Ceramics” opens today at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens. The museum exhibition runs concurrently with an exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Sterling Ruby, now on view at Gagosian, Athens. In this exhibition, Ruby places a selection of his ceramic sculptures among the rare artifacts of the Museum of Cycladic Art’s permanent collection as well as in the museum’s temporary exhibition wing. Ruby’s works—which here include smaller utilitarian objects, larger basins, as well as figurative, floral, and totemic forms—converse with representative examples of figurines, tools, weapons, and pottery from the distinctive culture that flourished in the central Aegean during the Early Bronze Age. Follow the link in our bio for more info on both exhibitions. __________ #Gagosian @sterlingruby @cycladic_museum Installation views, “Sterling Ruby at Cycladic: Ceramics" © Museum of Cycladic Art and Sterling Ruby. Photo: Paris Tavitian, courtesy the artist
#SterlingRuby: "THAT MY NAILS CAN REACH UNTO THINE EYES," an exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Sterling Ruby, opened today at Gagosian, Athens. Ruby composes his “WIDW” paintings (2016–)—the series is titled after an abbreviated form of “window”—with thick, vibrant coats of acrylic and oil paint, also adhering squares of cardboard and patterned fabric onto canvas. These collaged elements demarcate the canvas into halves and smaller rectangles, transforming the compositions into gridded windowpanes that offer a glimpse into the physical and cerebral strata of Ruby’s working process. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @sterlingruby Installation views, “Sterling Ruby: THAT MY NAILS CAN REACH UNTO THINE EYES," Gagosian, Athens, May 13–July 31, 2021. Artwork © Sterling Ruby. Photos: Boris Kirpotin
#GagosianOnline: “The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.” —Louis Aragon, Surrealist poet "The Marvelous" follows "The Unconscious" as our next theme for “Daydreams and Nightmares,” a virtual exhibition of modern and contemporary works that engage with the genre of Surrealism. Man Ray’s famous photograph of a glamorous woman crying perfectly spherical and glistening tears of glass confounds the realities of such emotive drama in a manner that inserts uncertainty into the circumstances of the image’s making. A contemporary interpretation of this tactic is presented by Robert Therrien, whose enormous sculpture depicting the corner of a table—installed so that it projects from the wall—shifts the conventional relationship established between the self and everyday objects. John Currin’s portrait of a couple warmly sharing a newspaper at home applies a similar logic of estrangement by introducing an amalgamation of disparate and unexpectedly situated objects to the composition that defami
William Forsythe’s "The Sense of Things" is the first artistic intervention in the Kunsthaus Zürich’s new museum building, designed by David Chipperfield. In Forsythe’s acoustic work, now on view, deconsecrated church bells of different sizes, pitches, and timbres are activated in a contrapuntal composition that emanates across the new extension, encouraging visitors to build a direct relationship with the architecture by observing how the sounds change as they move through the space. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #WilliamForsythe #Gagosian @william_forsythe_ @kunsthauszuerich Installation views, "William Forsythe: The Sense of Things," 2021 © William Forsythe. Photo: © Franca Candrian, Kunsthaus Zürich
#SterlingRuby: An exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Sterling Ruby, titled "THAT MY NAILS CAN REACH UNTO THINE EYES," opens tomorrow, May 13, at Gagosian, Athens. Featuring dynamic bursts of pink, teal, white, and gold, Ruby’s paintings evoke the fertile yet impermanent aura of springtime. Opposing realms—order and chaos, love and violence, civilization and wilderness—are key to his works, which dwell in moments of transformation. Exploring the liminal space between these dichotomies and inspired by William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Ruby taps into the loss of self that occurs when the identities and innermost desires of the play’s protagonists become enmeshed within a collective subconscious. Concurrently, a selection of ceramic sculptures by Ruby will be exhibited within the permanent collections of the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. The installation, “Sterling Ruby at Cycladic: Ceramics,” opens this Friday, May 14. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the upcoming sh
#AlbertOehlen: "Tramonto Spaventoso," an exhibition by Albert Oehlen comprising the second part of his version of the Rothko Chapel in Houston as well as other new paintings, is on view at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. The first part of the project—consisting of four paintings that mirror the imposing scale of the Color Field compositions in the Chapel while opposing Rothko’s contemplativeness with their frenetic energy—was exhibited at the Serpentine Galleries in 2019–20. On the occasion of the London show, Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the artist. Follow the link in our bio to read the conversation or to learn more about the Los Angeles exhibition. __________ #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @hansulrichobrist @oehlenalbert Albert Oehlen's studio, Ispaster, Spain, 2020. Photo: © Esther Freund. Artwork © Albert Oehlen
In celebration of the forthcoming monograph on Georg Baselitz, we’ve teamed up with Thames and Hudson to give away five copies. The giveaway is open to UK and US residents and ends on May 18 at 11:59pm EDT. To enter for your chance to win: • Like this post • Follow us @gagosian, @thamesandhudson and @thamesandhudsonusa __________ #GeorgBaselitz #Gagosian @ludwigmuseum (1) Georg Baselitz, "Die Verspottung ('The mocking')," 1983, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest. Photo: József Rosta; (2) "Georg Baselitz" (London: Thames and Hudson, 2021). Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2021
#HirstTakeover: The first phase of Damien Hirst’s yearlong takeover is currently on view at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. The exhibition "Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures" sees Hirst as both artist and curator, presenting this deeply personal series of work created between 1993 and 2021 through his own eyes. Mimicking color photographs, the Fact Paintings are rendered in oil on canvas, sometimes with meticulous fidelity, at others reveling in the physicality of mark making. Their verisimilitude recalls the historical role of painting as a tool to represent the visible world and lead the viewer to believe that a two-dimensional image is, in fact, the three-dimensional object it portrays. In the Fact Sculptures, Hirst moves beyond the readymade, instead constructing detailed replicas of real objects. Follow the link in our bio to schedule an appointment. __________ #DamienHirst #Gagosian @damienhirst Installation views, "Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures," Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, 2021. Ar
#SterlingRuby: An exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Sterling Ruby, titled "THAT MY NAILS CAN REACH UNTO THINE EYES," opens on May 13 at Gagosian, Athens. In this new body of work inspired by William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream," Ruby makes allusions to theater, likening the vantage of a window frame to the proscenium. Taking a cue from the play’s contrasting settings of judicial ancient Athens and the mystical forest beyond, Ruby bisects each canvas vertically with a strip of painted cardboard, introducing a pillar-like barrier that bright pigments rebound against or cower behind. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @sterlingruby (1) Sterling Ruby, “WIDW. PUCK FUCK.,” 2020 (detail); (2) Installation view, “Sterling Ruby: THAT MY NAILS CAN REACH UNTO THINE EYES," Gagosian, Athens, May 13–July 31, 2021. Photo: Boris Kirpotin; (3) Sterling Ruby’s “ SPEECH LIKE A TANGLED CHAIN” poster, 2021; (4) Diana Rigg and He
#GagosianPremieres: Now live! Watch Rachel Whiteread's episode of Gagosian Premieres at youtube.com/gagosian. We celebrate the artist's exhibition “Internal Objects” at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, with a conversation between Whiteread and art critic and curator Iwona Blazwick, and performances by composer and pianist Max Richter and poet Mark Waldron. Follow the link in our bio to watch now. __________ #Gagosian #RachelWhiteread @rachelwhitereadofficial @maxrichtermusic Artwork © Rachel Whiteread; Video: Little Dot Studios (@littledotstudios); Music: “Prelude 6,” written and performed by Max Richter. Published by Decca Music Group Ltd. administered by Universal Music Publishing Ltd. Courtesy of Decca Music Group Ltd(@deccarecords). Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd. (@universalmusicgroup)
#GagosianOnline: “Daydreams and Nightmares” is a virtual exhibition of modern and contemporary works that engage with the genre of Surrealism. We will be sharing groupings of works from the show around themes, starting with “The Unconscious.” These five artists each demonstrate an interest in exposing hidden aspects behind lived reality or imagining unconventional environments. Giuseppe Penone dramatizes this concept through a multistage work in which he was photographed wearing mirrored contact lenses that blocked his vision. Interrupting the artist’s gaze, the mirrored lenses staged a deliberate blindness that transformed the artist into a kind of a medium, in line with Surrealist precedents using automatic procedures to remove conscious subjectivity. Rachel Whiteread’s ghostly renderings of indeterminate staircases speak to the psychological descent into the subconscious, while Alicja Kwade's wall-mounted handle suggests a conduit to a mysterious parallel world beyond the visible. Finally, Ed Ruscha and
Venice Family Clinic's annual benefit auction, a fundraising event whose proceeds will provide essential health care services to people in the community regardless of their income, immigration, or insurance status, closes tomorrow at 3pm. Since its inception forty years ago, this charity event has raised more than $23 million. This year’s auction, hosted on Artsy, is honoring Mary Weatherford as the “signature artist” and features more than two hundred works by nationally recognized contemporary artists, including Piero Golia, Ed Ruscha, Robert Therrien, as well as Weatherford. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #MaryWeatherford #Gagosian @venicefamilyclinic @maryweatherford @artsy Mary Weatherford, "Sunset, Western Cape," 2020 © Mary Weatherford. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio
#LouiseBonnet: "They are in between: in between animals and humans, in between resting and pouncing, in between sleep and wakefulness. I saw myself as the viewer, trying to get past them just before they saw me." —Louise Bonnet Gagosian is pleased to present "Sphinxes," an exhibition of new drawings and a new oil painting by Louise Bonnet, opening on June 3 at Gagosian, Basel. This is the first time her work has been shown in Switzerland. In "Kneeling Sphinx 2" (2021)—the sole painting in the exhibition—Bonnet isolates the sphinx against a spare background and renders her head as an enigmatic blond blur, concentrating instead on the surreal construction of her body. Her outstretched arms morph into a pair of elongated breasts that spray cones of milk, a touch of simultaneous humor and body horror that also alludes to shape-shifters from the science-fiction films that inspire Bonnet's visual language. Placed on a cubic plinth, the sphinx appears statue-like in her stillness, yet her muscled back and richly r
Launching today as part of the first season of theVOV, the South London Gallery will digitally re-present the exhibition "Chris Burden: 14 Magnolia Double Lamps," fifteen years after it was originally shown at the institution. This important work would go on to become the iconic sculpture "Urban Light" (2008), which is permanently installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Created in collaboration with fifteen of the United Kingdom’s leading arts organizations, including the Tate, Hayward Gallery, and Turner Contemporary, theVOV is a new online platform that digitally revives major exhibitions, presenting them in a new light to wider audiences. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #ChrisBurden #Gagosian #theVOV @thevovart @outsetart @visualogical @southlondongallery @lacma @yayoi_shionoiri Installation view, "Chris Burden: 14 Magnolia Double Lamps," South London Gallery, September 15–November 5, 2006. Artwork © Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Societ
Tune in on Wednesday, May 12, at 1pm EDT, for an online conversation about Georg Baselitz. In celebration of the forthcoming monograph on Baselitz published by Thames and Hudson, Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Katy Siegel, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair at Stony Brook University, New York, and senior curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art; and Richard Calvocoressi, art historian and director at Gagosian, London, will look at the artist’s prolific career. They will discuss the artist's current exhibition "Springtime" at Gagosian, New York; his upcoming show "Archinto" at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, opening later this month; and the recent gift by the artist and his wife, Elke Baselitz, of six landmark paintings to the Met, which are on view at the museum in "Pivotal Turn" through July 2021. To register, follow the link in our bio. __________ #GeorgBaselitz #Gagosian @thamesandhudson @thamesandhudsonusa @max.hollein @metmuseum @st
#GagosianQuarterly: "I like to do my own styling. I don’t want to do funny stuff. I want to take the picture and get on with it. Less is always more." —David Bailey In a 2019 piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," David Bailey sat down with Derek Blasberg to talk about his process, his peeves, and his experiences with Jean Shrimpton, Anjelica Huston, Freddie Mercury, and more. Follow the link in our bio to read the article, which is now available online. __________ #DavidBailey #Gagosian @bailey_studio @derekblasberg David Bailey; (1) "The Kray Brothers," 1965; (2) "Catherine Deneuve," 1966; (3) "Jean Shrimpton," 1965. Artwork © David Bailey
#FriezeArtFair: "That these sharply painted curls evoke seashells or finely wrought metalwork suggests that Ewa Juszkiewicz is as much engaged with still life as she is with portraiture." —Lisa Small Paintings by Ewa Juszkiewicz feature at Gagosian's booth in Frieze New York at the Shed, which closes today. 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 or direct message us to receive a PDF with detailed information on these works. __________ #EwaJuszkiewicz #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @ewa_juszkiewicz @friezeofficial @theshedny (1) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled (after Rembrandt Peale)," 2021; (2) Installation view, Frieze New York, 2021. Photo: Dawn Blackman; (3) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled," 2021. Artwork © Ewa Juszkiewicz
#FriezeArtFair: Sculptures by Rachel Feinstein are presented in Gagosian's booth at Frieze New York, which closes today. The presentation includes three 2018 sculptures, "Chinoiserie," "Corine," and "Mezzetino,” each titled after Rococo sculptor Franz Anton Bustelli’s "commedia dell’arte" figurines. In a video for “Gagosian Quarterly,” Feinstein speaks about these works. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video or direct message us to receive a PDF with detailed information. __________ #RachelFeinstein #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @rachelfeinsteinstudio @friezeofficial @theshedny (1) Rachel Feinstein, "Mezzetino," 2018; (2) Video: Emma Charles (@emma__charles). Artwork © Rachel Feinstein
#GagosianQuarterly: "I don’t expect you to go and understand it instantly. Just let yourself be taken on this artist’s trip. They’ll take you all sorts of places." —Bill Gunn In his essay "Cosmic Freeze Frames: A Poetics of Bill Gunn," Carlos Valladares discusses the films of the pioneering director. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece on "Gagosian Quarterly". __________ #BillGunn #Gagosian @cvall96 (1) Marlene Clark and Duane Jones in Bill Gunn's "Ganja & Hess," 1973. Photo: courtesy Kino Lorber; (2) Film still from Bill Gunn's "Personal Problems," 1980
A retrospective of work by Nam June Paik opens today at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This major exhibition brings together more than two hundred works from throughout Paik’s five-decade career—from robots made from old TV screens, to his innovative video works, and all-encompassing room-size installations. Originated at the Tate Modern in London, the exhibition looks at his close collaborations with Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Charlotte Moorman, and others. Three sculptures and one drawing by Paik are also currently presented on 8-bridges in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Follow the links in our bio to learn more about the shows. __________ #NamJunePaik #Gagosian @sfmoma @8bridges_galleries @tate (1) Timm Rautert, "Nam June Paik lying among televisions," Zürich, 1991. Photo © Timm Rautert; (2) Nam June Paik, "Chongro Cross," 1991, installation view, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Katherine Du Tiel. Artwork © Nam June Paik Estate
#HelenMarden: "Bitter Light a Year," an exhibition of new paintings by Helen Marden, closes today at Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York. Marden’s compositions combine vivid color with gesture in a joyful affirmation of life’s energies. Using resin to bind neon bright acrylics and raw powdered pigments with natural substances and found objects, she invests the aesthetics and techniques of expressive abstraction with renewed variety and purpose. The exhibition’s poetic title, "Bitter Light a Year," suggests hard-won wisdom and anticipates collective emergence from a profoundly challenging time for the planet. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @goldenrock Helen Marden; (1) "Goblet IV," 2020; (3) "Goblet II," 2020; (2, 4) Installation views, "Helen Marden: Bitter Light a Year," Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, April 6–May 8, 2021. Artwork © Helen Marden. Photo: Rob McKeever
Sky High Farm and Dover Street Market are launching the second chapter of their ambitious yearlong project tomorrow. This merchandise collaboration features existing and original artworks created by Dan Colen, Linda Goode Bryant, Mark Grotjahn, Takashi Murakami, and more. Items include t-shirts hoodies, sweatshirts, caps and totes. Sky High Farm invited American Ballet Theatre and its corps de ballet member Connor Holloway to curate a selection of dancers from its own and neighboring companies to appear in the collection’s campaign, which was photographed by Jack Pierson and styled by Dover Street Market’s Jake Levy. All of the profits from the project will go towards Sky High Farm’s food access work with frontline communities. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the collection. __________ #SkyHighFarm #DoverStreetMarket #Gagosian @skyhighfarmhudsonvalley @doverstreetmarketnewyork @chaosursfischer @markgrotjahn @takashipom @orawise @hankwillisthomas @projecteats @jaklevy Photos: @jackpierson9
#GagosianPremieres: Join us for Rachel Whiteread's episode of Gagosian Premieres on May 11 at 2pm EDT! The episode celebrates the artist's exhibition “Internal Objects” at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, with a conversation between Whiteread and art critic and curator Iwona Blazwick, and performances by composer and pianist Max Richter and poet Mark Waldron. Follow the link in our bio or visit gagosian.com/premieres to sign up for updates. __________ #Gagosian #RachelWhiteread @rachelwhitereadofficial @maxrichtermusic Artwork © Rachel Whiteread; Video: Little Dot Studios (@littledotstudios); Music: “Mercy Duet,” written and performed by Max Richter. Published by Mute Song. Courtesy of Decca Music Group Ltd (@deccarecords). Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd. (@universalmusicgroup)
Tune in today at 1pm EDT for a virtual conversation between Katharina Grosse and the Milwaukee Art Museum's interim chief curator and curator of contemporary art, Margaret Andera. The pair will discuss Grosse’s "Untitled" (2019), which the museum recently acquired. The painting is the first work by the artist to enter the collection as well as the first by a female artist in the museum’s collection of contemporary German paintings. Follow the link in our bio to register for the event. __________ #KatharinaGrosse #Gagosian @milwaukeeart Katharina Grosse, "Untitled," 2019 (detail) © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021
"I often start paintings on the floor absolutely abstract and just create a sensation in the paint. . . . When you’re on the floor, you can’t really see what you’re doing, so the nature of the paint is in charge. It’s a battle between rational and irrational working." —Jenny Saville Happy birthday to Jenny Saville, born on this day, May 7, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. In a recent episode of Gagosian Premieres, Jenny Saville celebrates her exhibition "Elpis" at Gagosian New York with painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn and historian Simon Schama, with a performance by the Aaron Diehl Trio. In this series of monumental portraits, Saville explores the human face and body, producing bold and sensuous impressions of surface, line, and mass. Visit our IGTV channel or follow the link in our bio to watch the episode. __________ #JennySaville #Gagosian @jennysavilleofficial @nathanielmaryquinn @philipglassmusic @aaronjdiehl @ak47music @paulsikivie Music: "Étude no. 16," written Philip Glass, arr. Aaron Diehl © 1994, 2014
#MarkGrotjahn: "I like less looking, more doing." —Mark Grotjahn Gagosian is pleased to present "Horizontals," an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Mark Grotjahn from the "Capri" series (2016–), opening May 18 at Gagosian, Hong Kong. Stemming from a body of work that he produced in 2016 for Casa Malaparte on the isle of Capri, Italy, the new paintings extend Grotjahn’s shift away from the representational qualities of the "Face" paintings (2003–) toward the realm of full abstraction. Inspired by the landmark modernist house of writer Curzio Malaparte—isolated on a rocky outcrop on the uninhabited side of the island—Grotjahn inaugurated the series with a group of works titled "New Capri." Painted on cardboard and presented behind glass, these dynamic compositions echo the rugged natural environment of the house’s setting. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition. __________ #Gagosian @markgrotjahn Mark Grotjahn, "Untitled (Capri 53.88)," 2021 © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Pa
#GagosianQuarterly: The Summer 2021 issue of "Gagosian Quarterly" is now available, featuring Carrie Mae Weems’s "The Louvre" (2006) on its cover. The issue presents Antwaun Sargent’s guest-edited supplement, “Social Works,” which includes a feature on Weems that pairs her photography with new poetry by Maya Phillips. The section also includes interviews with Rick Lowe, Linda Goode Bryant, Sir David Adjaye OBE, and Lauren Halsey; a look at Theaster Gates’s engagement with the archives of house music legend Frankie Knuckles; and a portfolio of works by Zalika Azim and Allana Clarke, both former fellows of NXTHVN. The issue also includes features on Albert Oehlen, the legacy of Doris Ammann, the dance artist Eiko Otake, Adriana Varejão, the importance of chronologies, an interview with Stella McCartney, and much more. Follow the link in our bio to read the issue online, or contact shop@gagosian.com to order your copy. __________ #Gagosian @carriemaeweems @sirsargent @ricklowe2222 @adjayeassociates @adjaye_visu
#AdrianaVarejao: "Talavera," an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, is now open at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. This is her first show with the gallery in New York, following presentations in Rome in 2016, and Los Angeles in 2017. In the late 1980s, Varejão began researching "azulejos," the glazed terra-cotta tiles of Arab origin that have been the most widely used form of decoration in Portuguese art since the Middle Ages and that were brought to Brazil through colonization and trade. From this, she developed her unique and ever-evolving series of "tile" paintings, made by covering a square canvas with a thick layer of plaster and allowing it to gradually dry to produce a surface with deep fissures resembling ancient crackled porcelain—or geological time itself. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @adrianavarejao Installation views, "Adriana Varejão: Talavera," Gagosian, West 21st Street, New Yo
#FriezeArtFair: "It seems to me that in our art we both constantly strike a balance between theatricality and naturalness, between the grotesque and seriousness. A very fine line separates them." —Ewa Juszkiewicz Tomorrow is the opening day of Frieze New York at the Shed, the first in-person art fair of 2021 in the United States. Our presentation will feature sculptures by Rachel Feinstein and paintings by Ewa Juszkiewicz. On this occasion, the two artists discuss remixing conventions, the allure of Rococo, and the importance of research and history within their respective practices for "Gagosian Quarterly". Follow the link in our bio to read the article or direct message us to receive a PDF with detailed information on the works. __________ #EwaJuszkiewicz #RachelFeinstein #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @ewa_juszkiewicz @rachelfeinsteinstudio @friezeofficial @theshedny (1) Rachel Feinstein, "Chinoiserie," 2018 © Rachel Feinstein; (2) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled (after Johann Ender)," 2021 (detail) © Ewa Juszki
#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, opens today at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Baselitz has combined a direct and provocative approach to making art with an openness to art historical lineages, counting among others Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston as his key influences. In 1969, he began composing the inverted images for which he has become best known to slow the processes of making, looking, and apprehending. During the past fifty years, he has augmented his visual language with a range of formal and historical allusions while consistently returning to the human figure. Often he reinterprets—cannibalizes—his own work. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, "Georg Baselitz: Springtime," Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, May 4–June 12, 2021. Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Rob McKeever
Tune in on Thursday, May 6, at 5pm EDT, for an online conversation between Dan Colen, artist and founder of Sky High Farm, Aimee Meredith Cox, associate professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Yale University and author of the award-winning monograph “Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship,” and Hank Willis Thomas, Conceptual artist and cofounder of For Freedoms. Moderated by Ora Wise, executive director of Sky High Farm, the group will explore the transformative power of art making, the politics of collaboration, and the role of creative expression within social justice movements. To join, follow the link in bio. This talk is hosted by Gagosian in partnership with Dover Street Market and is part of a tribute, organized by Frieze New York, honoring the Vision & Justice Project and its founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. __________ #VisionAndJustice #FriezeArtFair #FriezeNY #Gagosian @skyhighfarmhudsonvalley @aimee_mere @hankwillisthomas @orawise @doverstreetmarketnewyork
#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, opens tomorrow at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Just as the exuberant provocations of Dada—as seen in the work of Hannah Höch, George Grosz, and others—emerged out of the catastrophes of the First World War, so does Baselitz’s title herald a spirited reawakening from the ravages and restrictions of the current pandemic. The exhibition attests to Baselitz’s seemingly infinite capacity for artistic renewal, innovation, and tongue-in-cheek irreverence while continuing to harness the resilience of his distinctive methods and motifs. "Springtime" overlaps with the exhibition "Archinto" at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, and anticipates Baselitz’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, which will open on October 20. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @centrepompidou @museopalazzogrimani Georg Baselitz, "Spaziergang am Meer," 2021 © Georg Baselitz 2021. P
#GagosianSpotlight: In this 2019 exhibition at the Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, which is an affiliate of the Musée du Louvre, Glenn Brown presented new works, with an emphasis on drawing, as well as a large sculpture inspired by Delacroix, among other artists. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the show. __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial Installation views, “Glenn Brown,” October 10–December 9, 2019, Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, Paris. Photos: Charles Duprat
#AdrianaVarejao: "These ruins serve as metaphors for uncompleted time. They indicate the fragility of tradition, the precariousness of the idea of plans and the instability of values in countries like Brazil where discontinuity is the rule. They represent the imminent time of the decomposition of the flesh. ” —Adriana Varejão "Talavera," an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, opens today at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Featured in the exhibition are Varejão’s “Meat Ruins” (2020–21), towering columns that simulate fragments of Talavera-tiled walls and architectural elements. In their theatricalized reinvention of space and place, the “Meat Ruins” embody the violence and eroticism that has shaped Latin American history, the spirit of “antropofagia” that transfigured the social taboo of cannibalism into a process of cultural absorption in the modern period. In a pointed reference to her own country in its current state of political and ecological turmoil and degradation, Var
"‘Capri’ allowed, or forced, me to go to an interesting area between abstraction and what I think of as nonrepresentation." —Mark Grotjahn Happy birthday to Mark Grotjahn, born on this day, May 2, in Pasadena, California. In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Michael Auping writes about the origins of Grotjahn’s "Capri" paintings and their relationship with nature and landscape. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #MarkGrotjahn #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @markgrotjahn (1) Mark Grotjahn, "Untitled (Capri 53.77)," 2020; (2) #Repost @markgrotjahn; Artwork © Mark Grotjahn
Mary Weatherford's exhibition "Neon Paintings" closes today at Aspen Art Museum, Colorado. This show examines pivotal pieces from the last decade of Weatherford’s work, with a particular focus on her neon paintings. The artist began to incorporate neon tubing into her work in 2012 after driving around the California city of Bakersfield, where she was struck by the neon signage—both illuminated and burnt out—on bars, shops, and old factories. Weatherford’s neons arc over thin veils of color, illuminating her canvases even as they act as their own expressive marks. A recent episode of Gagosian Premieres celebrates Weatherford's exhibition “Train Yards” at Gagosian London. Follow the link in our bio to watch. __________ #MaryWeatherford #Gagosian @maryweatherford @aspenartmuseum Installation views, "Mary Weatherford: Neon Paintings," Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, December 18, 2020–May 2, 2021. Artwork © Mary Weatherford. Photos: Carter Seddon
#GagosianSpotlight: “I want my paintings to be between states in every way you can think of, between beautiful and ugly, between violent and passive, between happy and sad, between male and female.” —Glenn Brown With preparations underway for an exhibition in London, Glenn Brown sat down with author Hari Kunzru in 2018 to discuss Brown's artmaking process, the idea of the copy, and surprising overlaps between creating visual and literary works. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece on “Gagosian Quarterly.” __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @glennbrownofficial @hari_kunzru Glenn Brown: (1) “They Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth and Touched the Face of God,” 2017 (detail). Photo: Lucy Dawkins; (2) “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above,” 2017. Photo: Mike Bruce; (3) “Life on the Moon,” 2016. Photo: Mike Bruce; © Glenn Brown
#NamJunePaik: Gagosian is pleased to participate in a special presentation on 8-bridges in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Three sculptures and one drawing by Nam June Paik are featured in anticipation of the artist’s major retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, opening May 8. In these works, Paik uses paper and TV screens interchangeably as surfaces for gestural improvisation. Dating from the last decade of the artist’s life, they embody his playful and predictive conflations of tech and mass communication with images from nature and spontaneous mark making. Follow the link in our bio to explore the presentation at 8-bridges.com. __________ #Gagosian #8bridges @8bridges_galleries @sfmoma Nam June Paik in Miami, c. 1990. Photo: Brian Smith
"Usually works of art are exhibited in an art-historical context, ordered according to style, discipline, place and period. In this exhibition we have avoided this traditional museum system and have, in line with the nature of the Hill Collection, interrelated works of great diversity." —Karel Schampers Work by Francis Bacon, Richard Prince, Jenny Saville, Rudolf Stingel, and Andy Warhol is included in "The Human Body," now open at Hill Art Foundation, New York. This exhibition, curated from the Hill Collection by Karel Schampers, examines the human body through figurative work from the last five hundred years. The installation spans two floors and visitors are encouraged to view the works from different levels and vantage points, creating a dialogue across diverse periods and mediums. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the show. __________ #JennySaville #RichardPrince #RudolfStingel #Gagosian @hillartfoundation @jennysavilleofficial @richardprince_official (1) Jenny Saville, "Meridian," 2019-20
“To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice." —Sally Mann Happy birthday to Sally Mann, born on this day, May 1, in Lexington, Virginia. Mann is known for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting. Her projects explore the complexities of familial relationships, social realities, and the passage of time, capturing tensions between nature, history, and memory. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the artist. __________ #SallyMann #Gagosian @sallymannofficial Sally Mann, "Untitled (Virginia, Upper Fields)," 1993 © Sally Mann
#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, opens at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, on Tuesday, May 4. In this new series, Baselitz has, for the first time, introduced the idea of collage by gluing pairs of nylon stockings onto canvases and painting over and around their diaphanous forms in white, black, or gold. In some paintings, these stocking-figures remain distinct from their backgrounds, while in others the printed impressions of paint-soaked nylons replace the hosiery themselves, their stretched forms snaking from multihued “skirts” of expressive splatters, like plants from undergrowth. The exhibition attests to Baselitz’s seemingly infinite capacity for artistic renewal, innovation, and tongue-in-cheek irreverence while continuing to harness the resilience of his distinctive methods and motifs. "Springtime" overlaps with the exhibition "Archinto" at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, and anticipates Baselitz’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou,
#GagosianSpotlight: Head to gagosian.com to watch a video in which Glenn Brown discusses the concept behind the exhibition “Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts,” presented at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 2018. Curated by the artist, together with Laing chief curator Julie Milne, the show featured new works by Brown exhibited alongside paintings and sculptures from the museum’s collection. Follow the link in our bio to watch now. __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial @laingartgallery Installation views, “Glenn Brown: Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts,” June 16–October 21, 2018. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Photos: Jack Cornish
#GagosianSpotlight: In this short film for “Gagosian Quarterly,” Glenn Brown demonstrates his process in creating artworks for an exhibition presented at Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam. Inspired by Rembrandt, he appropriates and subverts the work of the Dutch master, using his own artistic language that transcends time and pictorial conventions. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video. __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial All Glenn Brown artworks © Glenn Brown. Directed by Miriam Perez; Produced by PerryDuke
#SpencerSweeney: "Queue," an exhibition of new paintings by Spencer Sweeney, closes today at Gagosian, Davies Street, London. These are portraits that push the limits of figuration, reducing each facial feature to a set of geometric forms and free-flowing lines, all rendered in distinctive impasto. Some evoke theatrical masks or makeup: one has the plaintive furrowed brows of a mask from a Greek tragedy; another, painted in high contrast with stark crimson shadows, conjures both the whiteface of Pierrot and the smoothly inscrutable visages of Noh theater. Follow the link in our bio to schedule an appointment. __________ #SpencerSweeney #Gagosian @dirtyroomba (1) Spencer Sweeney, "Weeping Ghoul," 2021; (2) Installation views, "Spencer Sweeney: Queue," Gagosian, Davies Street, London, February 22–May 1, 2021. Artwork © Spencer Sweeney. Photo: Lucy Dawkins; (3) Spencer Sweeney in his studio with "Moving In," 2020. Photo: Pete Sieper. Artwork © Spencer Sweeney
#AdrianaVarejao: “My work is always in the territory of hybridity. My content forms in terms of decolonizing subjectivities because it deals with countless cultural references—not only from official history, but also from many other hidden or obscured histories that lie at the margins.” —Adriana Varejão “Talavera,” an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, opens Monday, May 3rd, at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. The exhibition will feature the latest iterations of Varejão's "tile" paintings, which explore the culture of “talavera poblana,” a Mexican ceramic tradition originating from Spain that draws from diverse sources. Taking key motifs from Talavera designs from different historical periods, Varejão interprets them to a much larger scale. In the process, affinities with modernist abstraction arise, raising larger questions about the life and provenance of forms in art. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #
#GagosianSpotlight: Glenn Brown’s new painting “Touch the Flaming Dove” is currently presented on gagosian.com. The artist’s source here is Albrecht Dürer’s small drawing “Study of Two Feet” (c. 1508), housed in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Brown seizes and flips these feet as though they were lost objects in time. As is often the case with Brown’s work, the title leads the viewer to curious and unexpected narratives. The phrase “Touch the flaming dove” is from the David Bowie song “Soul Love,” from his pioneering 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.” As enigmatic as the song, this painting reveals Brown’s heightened fascination with the blurring of boundaries between mediums. Follow the link in our bio to read more about the work. __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial (1) Glenn Brown, “Touch the Flaming Dove,” 2021 © Glenn Brown; (2) Albrecht Dürer, “Study of Two Feet,” c. 1508, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, N
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has acquired “Helen’s Room” (2017) by Jonas Wood—the first work by the artist to join the collection. The artist’s graphic painting style uses familial relations to address the real and psychological spaces that capture the intimacy and personal nature of his work. An important example of the artist’s work, “Helen’s Room," refers to an upstairs bedroom in Wood’s maternal grandfather’s home in Binghamton, New York. Aided by a photo of the original space, Wood made the work as a combination of real and invented imagery, as remembered at age nine. The “real” elements from the photo include the cat (a Siamese belonging to the artist’s parents), the bed, copies of Matisse paintings made by SUNY Binghamton students commissioned by his grandfather, the lighting, folded maps behind the floor lamp, the phone, and the remote control on the side table. To these items, Wood added the butterfly/moth picture above the bed (a colored version was owned by Wood’s maternal uncle in a