Richard Artschwager
A conversation between Adam McEwen and Bob Monk.
Form always begins with a something. And then if that something occurs in another place, there is slippage involved and what is created as a result develops a parallel existence to the original thing.
I have located my art in terms of reducing all objects to the attention they demand. This gives me a good shot at innovation, to put it boldly.
—Richard Artschwager
Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of works by the late Richard Artschwager from a key period in his career, 1964 to 1987.
Associated with many genres but conforming to none, Artschwager’s art has been variously described as Pop, because of its incorporation of quotidian objects and commercial materials; as Minimal, due to its crisp forms and solid geometric presence; and as Conceptual, owing to its cerebral engagement with information. This rare survey of the early decades of Artschwager’s varied career demonstrates his ability to rearrange the structures of perception, bringing the deceptive pictorial world of images into direct confrontation with the concretely human world of objects.
A conversation between Adam McEwen and Bob Monk.
Gwen Allen recounts her discovery of cutting-edge artists’ magazines from the 1960s and 1970s and explores the roots and implications of these singular publications.
On the occasion of the exhibition Richard Artschwager: Primary Sources, recently on view at Gagosian, New York, Bob Monk and Maggie Dougherty explore the artist’s use of reference materials as the impetus for his paintings.
The Spring 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Red Pot with Lute Player #2 by Jonas Wood on its cover.