To the theme tune of an external hard drive processing fast — now
pacing itself — now rushing
at breakneck speed — the group of seventeen paintings,
produced between 2000 and 2011, each beautifully reproduced in the
well - designed catalogue — featuring a sharp, in - depth and elegantly - written essay by Goldsmiths» Gilda Williams — reflect the inner workings of a human brain constantly adjusting itself, adapting to each nuance of the ever - expanding, digital world while simultaneously filing, absorbing and recording the less serious, more random aspects — graffiti, toys, comic books, cartoon films — of modern times.
2002 Illustraded Catalog, Big Girl Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 2001 Included in exhibition, Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami 2000 Included in exhibitions: The International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture: Contemporary American Sculpture, Monaco; The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th Century Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta 1999 Included in exhibitions: The American Century: Art and Culture 1950 - 2000, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Bad - Bad: That is a
Good Excuse, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden - Baden, Germany 1997 Included in exhibitions: The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992 - 1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; La Biennale de Venezia: Future, Present, Past, XLVII International Arts Exhibition, Venice 1996 Release of film, Basquiat, directed and
produced by Schnabel 1994 Julian Schnabel: Retrospective,
at the Museo de Monterrey, Mexico; included in exhibition, U.S. Painting of the 1980s,
at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1993 Included in Drawing the Line Against AIDS, exhibition in conjunction with Art Against AIDS Venezia, under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Colletion, Venice 1992 Included in exhibitions: Le Portrait Dans L'Art Contemporain,
at the Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France; Manifeste,
at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1991 Solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel,
at the Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; included in exhibitions: The 1980's: Selections from the Permanent Collection,
at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Toward a New Museum: Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture, 1985 - 1991, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California 1989 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Works on Paper 1975 - 1988, originating
at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland 1986 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Paintings 1975 - 1986, originating
at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1985 Completes four etching, lithographs published by
Pace Editions, New York 1984 - 2001 Solo exhibitions
at PaceWildenstein, New York 1984 First solo exhibition
at the
Pace Gallery, New York 1979 First solo exhibition
at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York