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Tom Wesselmann

Flowers

June 14–August 16, 2019
Park & 75, New York

Installation view Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Works Exhibited

Tom Wesselmann, Mixed Bouquet (Filled In), 1993 Oil on cutout aluminum, 74 × 52 × 7 ½ inches (188 × 132.1 × 19.1 cm)© The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Jeffrey Sturges

Tom Wesselmann, Mixed Bouquet (Filled In), 1993

Oil on cutout aluminum, 74 × 52 × 7 ½ inches (188 × 132.1 × 19.1 cm)
© The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Jeffrey Sturges

Tom Wesselmann, Scribble Version of Still Life #58 (Opaque), 1984–91 Enamel on cutout aluminum, 58 × 69 ½ inches (147.3 × 176.5 cm)© The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Jeffrey Sturges

Tom Wesselmann, Scribble Version of Still Life #58 (Opaque), 1984–91

Enamel on cutout aluminum, 58 × 69 ½ inches (147.3 × 176.5 cm)
© The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photo: Jeffrey Sturges

About

Gagosian is pleased to present an installation of works by Tom Wesselmann at Park & 75 for the duration of the upcoming summer season.

Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was a leading exponent of American Pop art who explored the classical genres of the nude, still life, and landscape, updated to include contemporaneous everyday objects and advertising ephemera.

Known for iconic works such as Portrait Collage #1 (1959), the Great American Nude series (1961–73), Bedroom Paintings (1968–83), and the Standing Still Life paintings, Wesselmann created inventive new forms for painting, often working with cutout and shaped canvases.

This exhibition comprises a series of metal cutouts, including works in the still-life genre such as Mixed Bouquet (Filled In) (1993) and Still Life with Four Roses and Pear (1993), which depict flowers in particular. Wesselmann’s outlines were cut by laser from a sheet of metal, then painted in bright colors, creating a hybrid form of the innovative shaped canvases with which he worked, whereby the supports of his paintings were tailored to the actual shapes of the subjects depicted. Between the colored lines of Wesselmann’s cutout compositions, the white walls of the gallery serve as negative space within the image. In keeping with his multifaceted approach to painting, the metal cutouts blur the distinction between drawn line, painted field, and sculpture.

Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2023

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2023

The Summer 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on its cover.

A person sitting down behind six paintings

“Tight and Small and Figurative”: Tom Wesselmann’s Early Collages

Susan Davidson, editor of the forthcoming monograph on the Great American Nudes, a series of works by Tom Wesselmann, explores the artist’s early experiments with collage, tracing their development from humble beginnings to the iconic series of paintings.

Two people sit across from each other in front of Tom Wesselmann’s painting “Great American Nude #53”

In Conversation
Susan Davidson and Jeffrey Sturges

On the occasion of the exhibition Tom Wesselmann: Intimate Spaces at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, Susan Davidson sat down with Jeffrey Sturges to discuss the artist’s key works in his Great American Nudes (1961–73) and subsequent series.

The Parameters of Perception

The Parameters of Perception

Michael Craig-Martin and Jeffrey Sturges in conversation on Tom Wessselmann’s Standing Still Lifes. 

Richard Phillips on Tom Wesselmann

Richard Phillips on Tom Wesselmann

Tom Wesselmann: Standing Still Lifes closes this week at Gagosian New York. In this text, Richard Phillips speaks with Jason Ysenburg about the impact of the exhibition. A video about the exhibition and the artist’s studio practice accompanies the text.

Tom Wesselmann: In the Studio

Tom Wesselmann: In the Studio

Join us for a look at Tom Wesselmann’s New York studio in this behind-the-scenes video. Featuring archival footage of Wesselmann at work, as well as new interviews with his family, studio team, and friends, the film documents the creative process behind his large-scale works, from early still lifes to later abstractions.