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Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2026
The Summer 2026 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Ellen Gallagher’s Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish (2026) on the cover.
Art Fair
February 26–March 1, 2026
Santa Monica Airport, California
Booth C12
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Gagosian is pleased to announce its participation in Frieze Los Angeles 2026 with a selection of works by California masters including Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in dialogue with new and recent works by artists from the gallery’s Los Angeles stable or who have exhibited at the Beverly Hills location, including Louise Bonnet, Chris Burden, Urs Fischer, Piero Golia, Mark Grotjahn, Jennifer Guidi, Lauren Halsey, Alex Israel, Nancy Rubins, Sterling Ruby, Jim Shaw, Honor Titus, Mary Weatherford, Jordan Wolfson, and Jonas Wood. The presentation celebrates California’s continuing vitality as an artistic hub by exploring multiple facets of its cultural influence.
Israel’s painting Paramount Pictures (2025) is the first new work from Noir (2024–), a series of streetscapes exploring the seductive duplicity of Hollywood, to have been shown since the artist’s exhibition at the Beverly Hills gallery in 2025. Working with animators to produce digital renderings, and with a Warner Bros. scenic artist to translate those images into paintings, Israel generates uncanny, dreamlike vignettes in which the city’s mythic, analog past and mediated, virtual present overlap. Golia’s Mariachi Painting #8 (2016) also references the world of cinema. One of twelve paintings showing fragments of a curtain printed with the Looney Tunes “That’s All Folks!” graphic, it was created following the closing celebrations for Chalet Dallas, the artist’s project for Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center.
In her sculpture LODA PLAZA II (2025), Halsey throws light on another aspect of the city, paying homage to the signage of Black- and Brown-owned businesses in Los Angeles; this underscores the roles that communities and institutions play in stewarding LA’s working-class districts amid inequality and violence. Also mirroring the vicissitudes of the city’s urban planning, the mini-tower of Burden’s 5 Foot Stepped Skyscraper (2014–23) playfully tests the limits of metropolitan development using handmade metal construction toy parts. And Titus, in his painting The Fair Way (2024), examines golf course design, reframing a ritualized activity to expose the operation of privilege and class.

Alex Israel, Paramount Pictures, 2025 © Alex Israel. Photo: Josh White

Ed Ruscha, Heaven, 1988 © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Ed Mumford
Other artists in the presentation reflect on California’s abundant flora and fauna. In Two Vases with Flowers on White (1988), Hockney juxtaposes two flower arrangements in an elegant still life, while Ruby uses ceramics to represent a botanical form in FLOWER (9032) (2025), employing the kiln as an instrument of ritual transformation. Gehry’s sculpture Fish on Fire (2023), one of several of the late architect’s elaborations on objects from the Fish Lamps series (1984–86 and 2012–), and the last to be made in copper, renders the undulating “perfect form” of an ancient creature.
California has a long and distinguished history of abstraction, and in the luminous Ocean Park #108 (1978), Diebenkorn distills its ambience into bands of color, a radiant orange strip at the painting’s top evoking a Santa Monica sunset. In Drawing (2021), Rubins covers the surface of a bundle of paper in graphite, lending it the appearance of liquid metal. Weatherford’s painting Saffron Emerald Split (2026) features a colored neon tube affixed to a field of vinyl emulsion paint, alluding to both urban and rural environments through a play on color, gesture, and the tension between image and actuality. Ruby’s Turbine. Intercontinental 9122. (2026), meanwhile, features intersecting diagonals that suggest explosive natural and mechanical forces.
Finally, some works on view depart from material reality to explore California’s dreamscape, within which signifiers of freedom and creativity are shadowed by wilder, darker visions. Bonnet’s Bra 1 (2025) belongs to a series of paintings that show people struggling to dress, but without depicting the garments themselves, resulting in awkward contortions, while in two elaborate and unsettling Dream Drawings from 1996 and 2008, Shaw plumbs the depths of his own subconscious as it intersects with waking life.
On Wednesday, February 25, Gagosian is participating in the Beverly Hills Art Walk and will remain open until 7pm. Sarah Sze: Feel Free, the artist’s debut gallery exhibition in Los Angeles, is on view.
Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Los Angeles 2026. Video: Romoff Media

The Summer 2026 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Ellen Gallagher’s Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish (2026) on the cover.

In this video, Jenny Saville sits down inside her first major exhibition in Venice to discuss how the great Venetian artists of the past and the city’s heritage influence her work. The show brings together more than thirty canvases and works on paper from the 1990s to the present, tracing the development of her practice, which is deeply rooted in the history of painting.

Francis Bacon lived and worked in Paris for a decade starting in the mid-1970s. The city and the art he encountered there provided a profound backdrop for his austere late style, which often brings together smooth, colorful backgrounds, spare architectural signifiers, and sculptural human forms. Here, three striking paintings from that period are considered by Sebastian Smee.

An exhibition at Gagosian, Hong Kong, brings together three of James Turrell’s Glasswork pieces along with site plans, photographs, and models of his Skyspaces and Roden Crater. Here, Alice Godwin explores the history of the Glassworks and their relationship to the artist’s wider practice.

Janne Sirén considers Anselm Kiefer’s new paintings, the subject of an exhibition at Gagosian, New York, entitled Seal My Ears Shut and I Shall Hear You Still.

On April 16, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, opened the first midcareer survey of Derrick Adams’s multidisciplinary practice. Covering over twenty years of work, the exhibition, titled View Master, brings together the artist’s painting, sculpture, collage, performance, and video, as well as a vibrant new commission created for the museum’s façade. Ahead of the opening, Adams met with Tessa Bachi Haas, cocurator of the survey, to discuss his formative experiences with television, the impact of his work in arts education on his practice, and the importance of taking a more complex, more joyful, and more expansive approach to Black American life and culture.

Adam D. Weinberg has been working with Giuseppe Penone on an exhibition of the artist’s new sculptures, The Reflection of Bronze, that opens at Gagosian, New York, on April 22. The works explore the character and possibilities of bronze. Here, Weinberg considers Penone’s enduring engagement with the alloy and addresses the conceptual underpinnings of the exhibition’s three-room structure.

On March 28, a major exhibition of Jenny Saville’s work opened at Ca’ Pesaro–Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna in Venice, bringing together nearly thirty paintings from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition is curated by Elisabetta Barisoni, head of the museums division at Venice’s Ca’ Pesaro, Museo Fortuny, and head of MUVE in Mestre. Saville’s monumental canvases are set in dialogue with the great Venetian artists of the past, creating a unique encounter between contemporary painting and the city’s artistic heritage. Here, the artist speaks with Stefania Ventra, professor with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, about her early trips to Venice, the radicality of Titian’s painting, and depicting emotional truth.

Jeff Koons tells Alison McDonald about his appreciation for the pioneering artist and thinker Marcel Duchamp.

From their respective fields, three international cultural figures—artist and designer Ronan Bouroullec, fashion visionary Michèle Lamy, and chef and restaurateur Enrique Olvera—reflect on Donald Judd’s work in furniture, the subject of recent exhibitions in South Korea and Japan.

Laura Bruni writes about a major exhibition celebrating the work of the British sculptor Henry Moore at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.

The most recent edition of Picture Books, an imprint organized by Emma Cline and Gagosian, pairs Mary Gaitskill’s novella STAUF: A Tragedy with Jill Mulleady’s painting The Shift. In celebration of this forthcoming publication, Gaitskill and Mulleady discuss the myth of Faust, good and evil in the digital age, and the channeling of raw matter into art.