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Gagosian is pleased to announce an installation of new works on paper by Rick Lowe, on view from June 3 to 28 at the Burlington Arcade gallery. The exhibition coincides with the presentation of his large-scale painting Cavafy Remains (2024) in the Unlimited sector of Art Basel 2025, from June 16 to 22.

As part of his mutable practice, Lowe works in the studio together with collaborative “social sculpture” initiatives designed to catalyze civic transformation. Paper is a key material in his improvisatory exploration of varied modes of abstraction. Combining painting and collage, the densely worked, layered compositions establish networks of shape and color that link painterly forms with geometric motifs.

Lowe marshals lines and shapes into configurations that extend across the works’ surfaces, abstracting from geographic and social relationships between people and places. The compositions’ systematic complexities echo maps, typography, and the games of dominoes that the artist enjoys with local residents while developing his projects. “I did not know the reason I was drawn to tracing the domino patterns,” Lowe recalls, “until one day I realized that the patterns were simply mapping knowledge of the time I spent with the people I played with.”

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Rick Lowe, Dieter Roelstraete, Abigail Winograd

In Conversation
Rick Lowe, Dieter Roelstraete, Abigail Winograd

Gagosian and Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, hosted a conversation between Rick Lowe; Dieter Roelstraete, curator of Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago; and Abigail Winograd, commissioner and curator of the United States Pavilion at the 60th Biennale di Venezia. The trio discuss the exhibition The Arch within the Arc in the context of Lowe’s overall practice, as well as Gagosian’s recently published monograph on the artist.

Rick Lowe & Kevin Beasley

Rick Lowe & Kevin Beasley

Artists Rick Lowe and Kevin Beasley discuss their engagement with material and place, as well as the social potentials of abstraction.

Notes to Selves, Trains of Thought

Notes to Selves, Trains of Thought

Dieter Roelstraete, curator at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago and coeditor of a recent monograph on Rick Lowe, writes on Lowe’s journey from painting to community-based projects and back again in this essay from the publication. At the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, during the 60th Biennale di Venezia, Lowe will exhibit new paintings that develop his recent motifs to further explore the arch in architecture.

Black Futurity: Lessons in (Art) History to Forge a Path Forward

Black Futurity: Lessons in (Art) History to Forge a Path Forward

Jon Copes asks, What can Black History Month mean in the year 2024? He looks to a selection of scholars and artists for the answer.

Rick Lowe, Tom Finkelpearl, and Eugenie Tsai

In Conversation
Rick Lowe, Tom Finkelpearl, and Eugenie Tsai

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Rick Lowe and his longtime friends Tom Finkelpearl, author and former commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Eugenie Tsai, senior curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, inside Lowe’s exhibition Meditations on Social Sculpture, at Gagosian, New York. The trio discusses their shared interest in transforming social structures and the evolution of Lowe’s new paintings from his ongoing community projects.

David Adjaye, Rick Lowe, and Thelma Golden

In Conversation
David Adjaye, Rick Lowe, and Thelma Golden

Rick Lowe and Sir David Adjaye join Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, for a conversation on the occasion of the exhibition Social Works at Gagosian, New York. The trio explore Adjaye and Lowe’s shared interests in architecture, community building, and the relationship between space and the Black body.

Rick Lowe: In the Studio

Behind the Art
Rick Lowe: In the Studio

Join Rick Lowe in his Houston studio as he speaks about his recent paintings, describing their connections to his long engagement with the activity of dominoes and to his community-based projects created in the tradition of social sculpture.

Social Works: Rick Lowe and Walter Hood

Social Works: Rick Lowe and Walter Hood

Rick Lowe and Walter Hood speak about Black space, the built environment, and history as a footing for moving forward as part of “Social Works,” a supplement guest edited by Antwaun Sargent for the Summer 2021 issue of the Quarterly.

Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2021

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2021

The Summer 2021 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Carrie Mae Weems’s The Louvre (2006) on its cover.

Cover of Hic Sunt Dracones (Here Lay Dragons): Mapping the Unknown: A Project by Rick Lowe book with dust jacket

Hic Sunt Dracones (Here Lay Dragons): Mapping the Unknown: A Project by Rick Lowe

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Cover of the Rick Lowe monograph

Rick Lowe

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Cover of the Gagosian Quarterly: Fall 2024 Issue featuring artwork by Andy Warhol

Gagosian Quarterly: Fall 2024 Issue

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Cover of the Gagosian Quarterly: Summer 2024 Issue featuring artwork by Roy Lichtenstein

Gagosian Quarterly: Summer 2024 Issue

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Cover of the Winter 2021 issue of Gagosian Quarterly magazine, featuring artwork by Jasper Johns

Gagosian Quarterly: Winter 2021 Issue

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Cover of the Summer 2021 issue of Gagosian Quarterly magazine, featuring artwork by Carrie Mae Weems

Gagosian Quarterly: Summer 2021 Issue

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Rick Lowe: The Arch within the Arc poster

Rick Lowe: The Arch within the Arc

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