David Zwirner presents On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 other cities

NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Zwirner presents the exhibition On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities, on view at the gallery’s 525 and 533 West 19th Street spaces. The exhibition will feature over 150 works selected by the artist, comprising a seminal presentation of his renowned date paintings from 1966 to the present (known collectively as the Today series). Spanning both of the gallery’s exhibition spaces at 525 and 533 West 19th Street, the exhibition will address the temporal [...]

A selection of Robert Graham’s “Early Work 1963-1973″ at David Zwirner in New York

NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Zwirner presents a selection of early work by Los Angeles artist Robert Graham (1938-2008), on view at 519 West 19th Street. The exhibition brings together rarely seen works that span the years 1963-1973, providing an overview and reconsideration of the artist’s initial engagement with Minimalism and figurative sculpture. In the early 1960s, while he was still attending the San Francisco Art Institute, Graham made miniature objects during idle moments as a Woolworth’s counter-salesman. Although the prevailing attitude of [...]

Exhibition of new works by Belgian painter Michaël Borremans at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new works by Michaël Borremans, The Devil’s Dress, on display at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space. Borremans’ drawings, paintings, and films present an evocative combination of solemn-looking characters, unusual close-ups, and unsettling still lifes. There is a theatrical dimension to his works, which are at once highly staged and ambiguous, just as his complex and open-ended scenes lend themselves to conflicting moods—simultaneously nostalgic, darkly comical, disturbing, and grotesque. His paintings display [...]

David Zwirner presents an exhibition of small and large new works by German artist Neo Rauch

NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new works by Neo Rauch, on display at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. The exhibition, the artist’s fifth solo show at the gallery, consists of small and large format paintings—several larger-than-life—as well as a bronze sculpture, representing one of the first instances Rauch has worked in three-dimensional form. Born in 1960 in Leipzig, then East Germany, Rauch is part of a generation of artists who came of age in a war-torn, [...]

New paintings by Philadelphia-born artist Lisa Yuskavage on view at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Yuskavage, on view at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space. This will be the artist’s third solo show since her first exhibition at the gallery in 2006. Over the past two decades, Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young women cast within fantastical landscapes or dramatically lit interiors. They appear to occupy their own realm while narcissistically contemplating themselves [...]

Exhibition of recent work by Japanese artist and architect Yutaka Sone at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of recent work by Yutaka Sone, on view at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. This is the artist’s fifth solo show since his first exhibition at the gallery in 1999. Working in a wide range of media—predominantly sculpture but also painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance—Yutaka Sone’s work revolves around a tension between realism and perfection. The artist originally trained as an architect and an almost obsessive attention to detail and its [...]

Exhibition of new paintings by Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Raoul De Keyser, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space. For nearly fifty years, De Keyser has created subtly evocative paintings and works on paper which appear at once straightforward and cryptic, abstract and figurative. Composed of basic but indefinable shapes and marks, his works often invoke spatial and figural illusions, though they remain elusive of any descriptive narrative. In this exhibition, De Keyser presents small-scale compositions [...]

David Zwirner Presents Works by Donald Judd Drawn from Seminal 1989 Exhibition

CHELSEA.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of works by Donald Judd drawn from the artist’s seminal 1989 exhibition held at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany. Brought together from international public and private collections, this is the first time these particular works have been exhibited together in a group of this size since Judd’s 1989 installation. The exhibition is on view May 6 through June 25, 2011. The exhibition, which spans both of the gallery’s spaces at 525 and 533 West [...]

David Zwirner Presents an Exhibition of New Work by Stan Douglas Inspired on Press Photography

NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new work by Stan Douglas, on view from March 23rd through April 23rd. Since the late 1980s, Douglas has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of new as well as outdated technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and [...]

Exhibition at David Zwirner Explores Relationships Between Art and Mathematics

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents Proofs and Refutations at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space. The exhibition includes work by Francis Alÿs, Trisha Brown, André Cadere, VALIE EXPORT, Henry Flynt, Simone Forti, Dan Graham, Georg Herold, Alfred Jensen, Lee Lozano, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Adrian Piper, Sigmar Polke, R.H. Quaytman, Dorothea Rockburne, and Al Taylor. This exhibition explores relationships between art and mathematics from the point of view of conjecture and criticism. Among the artworks on [...]

A Game of Chess: Solo Exhibition of New Work by Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents a solo exhibition of new work by Marcel Dzama, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space. The exhibition features the artist’s film, A Game of Chess, alongside related drawings, sculptures, and dioramas. Dzama has become known for his prolific drawings, which are characterized by their distinctive palette of muted browns, grays, greens, and reds. In recent years, the artist has expanded his practice to encompass three-dimensional work and film and has [...]

New Sparsely-Colored, Figurative Paintings by Belgian Artist Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Luc Tuymans, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space.  Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is widely seen as having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s. His sparsely-colored, figurative works speak in a quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling voice, and are typically painted from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills. His canvases, in turn, become third-degree abstractions from reality and often appear slightly [...]

New Works by Artist Raymond Pettibon on Display in “Hard in the Paint” at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new works by Raymond Pettibon, on display at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. Raymond Pettibon’s work embraces a wide spectrum of American “high” and “low” culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. Taking their points of departure in the Southern California punk-rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the “do-it-yourself” aesthetic of album-covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines [...]

A Selection of Works from the 1960s and 70s by American Artist Michael Heizer at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents a selection of works from the 1960s and 70s by American artist Michael Heizer (b. 1944) at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space.  As a pioneer of the 1960s Land Art movement, Heizer has created a prolific and ambitious practice encompassing painting, sculpture, and large-scale earthworks. His paintings and sculptures, which he has produced intermittently throughout his career—manifest many of the ideas explored in his monumental works—which use land as a material form. Bringing together [...]

U.S. Collector and Gallery Owner Larry Gagosian Tops 2010 Art Review Power List

LONDON (REUTERS).- U.S. collector and gallery owner Larry Gagosian has been named the art world’s most powerful figure in the annual ArtReview ranking, dominated this year by established commercial galleries. File photo of US art dealer Larry Gagosian (R) and Rome’s Mayor Walter Veltroni Gagosian has nine galleries around the world after opening a new space in Paris, as well as an office in Hong Kong and a shop in New York. He reclaims the position he held in 2004, [...]

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