Exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Jenny Saville, her first in New York since “Migrants” in 2003. Fascinated by the endless aesthetic and formal possibilities that the materiality of the human body offers, Saville remits a highly sensuous and tactile impression of surface and mass in her monumental oil paintings. In the compelling Stare paintings she renders the contours and features of the face and the nuances of skin texture and color in strokes [...]

Nick Lepard’s paintings

Nick Lepard is a young painter from Vancouver. His style reminds Jenny Saville’s work, but focused on portraits.

Gagosian Presents Major Group Exhibition Celebrating JG Ballard’s “Crash”

LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery London will present “Crash,” a major group exhibition opening on 11 February 2010, which takes its title from the famous novel by JG Ballard. Ballard’s novels stand among the most visionary, provocative literature of the twentieth century, with his ominous predictions regarding the fate of Western culture and his insights into the dark psychopathology of the human race. This exhibition is a response to the enormous impact and enduring cultural significance of his work, following his death [...]