This massive, clothbound volume is comprised of paintings made between 1973 and 2013 and includes artwork from nearly every stage in the artist's oeuvre - from his early oil on canvas works to his most
recent flag paintings.
Not exact matches
Concerned with political injustice and civil rights, Jones
painted his
recent No Parasan
paintings, which combined the process of color - field abstraction with anti-fascist
flags.
Recent solo exhibitions include WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories, The
FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2016); Real Ersatz, FUG, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY (2015); Art Basel Feature, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Basel, Switzerland (2014);
Paintings & Works on Paper 1972 - 2013, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL (2014); Woman Words, Dinter Fine Art, Project room # 63, New York, NY (2013); Fuck
Paintings, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (2012); among others.
Select highlights include: Lehmann Maupin's sale of several McArthur Binion works ranging from $ 50,000 - 175,000 to trustees of two leading U.S. museums, as well as collectors new to the gallery; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac's sale of two works by George Baselitz in a range of c. $ 599,000 - 838,000 each, a Robert Rauschenberg work for $ 725,000, a Tony Cragg sculpture for c. $ 210,000, and a metal and wood piece by Jack Pierson for $ 190,000; Royale Projects sold three Clinton Hill
paintings at around $ 95,000 each to collectors from New York and California; David Kordansky sold out its booth of photography by Torbjørn Rødland in the range of $ 14,00028,000 each; Jack Shainman's sales of
recent work by Hank Willis Thomas, including a major sculpture, a retroflective, and one of Thomas» iconic
flags in the Live section, and works by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Becky Suss, Enrique Martinez Celaya and Geoffrey Chadsey; Gallery Hyundai's sale of a pair piece by Seung - taek Lee for $ 100,000 - 200,000 and two works by Minjung Kim for $ 40,000 - 100,000.
On the one hand his five
paintings, including the famous Green Target and White
Flag, are perhaps the strongest single body of work in the show, but on the other, one suspects Johns was the only artist not to be represented with a
recent work because it is a fashionable position to assume only his early nark counts.
More
recent paintings, such as We all Live Under the Same Old
Flag (2008) and American Orange Show (2004) similarly convey Dial as the politically - minded, self - reflective artist he has always been, but with a different, perhaps more proud sensibility.
This richly illustrated survey spans the artist's prolific career from the early
Flag and Target
paintings — which were central to establishing his reputation as a major young artist in the mid 1950s, and have since become icons of twentieth century art — to the compelling compositions of the
recent «Catenary» series - works that testify to Johns's continuing artistic ambition at the start of the twenty first century.
I'm excited to expand on the dialogue with a simultaneous exhibition
Painting / Object, on view on
FLAG's 10th floor, which includes new and
recent works by Sarah Crowner, N. Dash, Sam Moyer, Julia Rommel, Erin Shirreff.»
Recent group exhibitions include Not New Now, Marrakech Biennale 6, Morocco (2016); Black: Color, Material, Concept, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2015); Surface Matters, Edward H. Linde Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2015); Surface Tension, The
FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2015); Affecting Presence and the Pursuit of Delicious Experiences, The Menil Collection, Houston (2015); Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2015); Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2014); and A Bigger Splash:
Painting after Performance, Tate Modern, London (2012).
Now's the Time:
Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York Ancestral Figure, Gagosian, Paris, France The Venice Beach Biennial, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary
painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA In Living Color, The
FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY