September 29, 2021

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.

This online program was presented by Gagosian on Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Artwork by David Adjaye © David Adjaye; artwork by Rick Lowe © Rick Lowe Studio; video by Pushpin Films

Social Works: Curated by Antwaun Sargent, Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, June 24–August 13, 2021

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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.

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.

Jenny Saville and Douglas Stuart

In Conversation
Jenny Saville and Douglas Stuart

Ahead of her exhibition over the summer at the National Portrait Gallery, London, Jenny Saville met with the novelist Douglas Stuart to discuss Glasgow, the beauty and blemishes of bodies, and their respective creative processes.

Derrick Adams and Ekow Eshun

In Conversation
Derrick Adams and Ekow Eshun

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Derrick Adams and Ekow Eshun, author, curator, and chair of the commissioning group for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. The pair discuss Adams’s latest paintings depicting visions of Black Americana—featured in the exhibition Situation Comedy at Gagosian, Davies Street, London—within the context of British contemporary culture.

Setsuko and Peter Marino

In Conversation
Setsuko and Peter Marino

To coincide with her exhibition SetsukoKingdom of Cats, at Gagosian, New York, the artist speaks with architect Peter Marino about her recent sculptures, paintings, and works on paper.

Takashi Murakami and Hans Ulrich Obrist

In Conversation
Takashi Murakami and Hans Ulrich Obrist

In conjunction with the exhibition Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami at Gagosian, London, Takashi Murakami and Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and artistic director of Serpentine, London, sit down to discuss the artist’s exploration and contemporizing of ancient Japanese artworks and movements. The two delve into Murakami’s investigation of Iwasa Matabei’s seventeenth-century masterwork Rakuchū-Rakugai-zu (Scenes in and around Kyoto) and the Kyoto-based style of Rinpa painting, among other examples.