David Zwirner Books
David Zwirner Books
Pop-Up Bookstore, New York
Visit for new releases and special offers on a selection of publication, posters, zines, and editions.
535 West 20th Street
Open Saturday, 10 AM – 6 PM
David Zwirner Books
Pop-Up Bookstore, London
Visit David Zwirner's London gallery for a pop-up bookstore, open in conjunction with Mayfair Art Weekend.
24 Grafton Street,
London
June 30, 10 AM – 8 PM, July 1, 10 AM – 6 PM
July 2, 11 AM – 5 PM
ekphrasis series
Book Launch
Please join David Zwirner Books and Tenderbooks for the launch of Pissing Figures 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, a history of the urinating figure in art.
Tenderbooks
6 Cecil Court, London
Thursday,
July 6, 6 – 8 PM
7 PM, Remarks by Lucas Zwirner
RSVP to Hannah Chinn, hchinn@davidzwirner.com
The ekphrasis series is specially dedicated to publishing out-of-print, rare, and newly commissioned texts as accessible paperback volumes. The series is part of an ongoing effort to publish new and surprising pieces of writing on visual culture.
Available now
Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter
Chardin and Rembrandt
Forthcoming in July
Degas and His Model
Pissing Figures 1280–2014
Forthcoming in Fall 2017
Letters to a Young Painter
Summoning Pearl Harbor
Current Exhibition & Related Publications
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Book Event
On the occasion of the publication of Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects Without Specific Form, the curator of the eponymous exhibition and current director of Kunsthalle Basel, Elena Filipovic, will be in conversation with artist Tino Sehgal.
Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
Thursday,
June 15, 11 AM
Felix Gonzalez-Torres is one of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In its reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor, and evocative use of everyday materials, the artist's work resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable; rigorous and generous; poetic and political. Drawn from museum and private collections, the exhibition spans several bodies of work from throughout the artist's career, presented in a series of distinct installations.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
David Zwirner, New York
April 27 – June 24
Current Exhibition & Related Publications
Raymond Pettibon
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Raymond Pettibon, on view at 519 West 19th Street in New York. The artist's tenth solo show at gallery TH’ EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T follows his collaborative presentations with Marcel Dzama at the gallery in both London and New York last year.
On the occasion of the exhibition, David Zwirner Books is pleased to announce the second printing of Raymond Pettibon: Homo Americanus. Published last year for the artist's major European traveling retrospective organized by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falkenberg, the first edition has now sold out.
Raymond Pettibon: TH’ EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T
David Zwirner, New York
April 29 – June 24
Forthcoming Exhibition
Lisa Yuskavage
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Yuskavage. On view at 24 Grafton Street in London, this is the artist's first exhibition since the major survey of her work at The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts in 2015, which traveled to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Widely associated with a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting, Yuskavage has developed her own genre of portraiture in which lavish, erotic, angelic and at times grotesque characters are cast within fantastical landscapes or domestic spaces. Seamlessly blending contemporary cultural imagery and classical pictorial language, Yuskavage marshals color as a conduit for complex psychological constructs.
Lisa Yuskavage
David Zwirner, London
June 7 – July 28
Press Preview With The Artist
Tuesday, June 6, 10 AM
Private View
Tuesday, June 6, 6 – 8 PM
Book Event with Nicholas Fox Weber
192 Books
Nicholas Fox Weber, director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, will be reading excerpts from his new book, Freud’s Trip to Orvieto (Bellevue Literary Press, 2017), followed by a discussion with Lucas Zwirner, editorial director at David Zwirner Books.
192 Books
192 10th Avenue, at 21st Street
Thursday, June 29, 7 PM
Also read
Josef Albers: Midnight and Noon
New Release
Alice Neel, Uptown
By Hilton Als
Known for her portraits of family, friends, writers, poets, artists, students, singers, salesmen, activists, and more, Alice Neel (1900–1984) created forthright, intimate, and, at times, humorous paintings that quietly engaged with political and social issues. In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als brings together a body of paintings of African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and other people of color for the first time. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, and Victoria Miro, London, in 2017, the publication explores Neel’s interest in the diversity of uptown New York and the variety of people amongst whom she lived.
Also by Hilton Als
New Release
Josef Albers: Midnight and Noon
Published on the occasion of exhibitions at David Zwirner’s New York and London galleries in 2016 and 2017, this beautifully illustrated publication looks at one of the most influential abstract painters of the twentieth century. Using minimal means—paint straight from the tube, applied meticulously with a palette knife—and a focused selection of colors, Josef Albers’s sustained, serial investigation into rhythm, mood, and spatial movement is explored in this lavishly produced volume that looks solely at his respective grey and yellow paintings, exploring two distinct color palettes pervasive to his oeuvre.
Carol Bove in Venice
Carol Bove's installation for the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale is part of the exhibition 'Women of Venice,' which responds to the legacy of Alberto Giacometti. Bove's participation debuts new steel sculptures, similar to those reproduced in our recent publication Polka Dots
Venice Biennale
May 13 – November 26
New Release & Current Exhibition
Toba Khedoori
Published on the occasion of Toba Khedoori's exhibition at LACMA in 2016, this book documents the artistic development of the MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient who skillfully combines precise draftsmanship with a meditative quality, and who manages to invite viewers inside her works, despite their two-dimensionality. The exhibition is traveling to PAMM.
Toba Khedoori
Pérez Art Museum Miami
April 21 – September 24
Also Available
Toba Khedoori
Los Angeles-based artist Toba Khedoori is known for delicately shaded, large-scale compositions that depict objects and everyday environments divorced from any background. Designed in close collaboration with the artist, this exquisitely produced—and generously scaled—catalogue features a series of oil paintings from her 2012 exhibition at David Zwirner in New York, which marked her sixth presentation with the gallery.
Forthcoming
Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from The Brooklyn Rail
The legendary Brooklyn Rail has been a platform for artists, academics, and writers in New York and abroad for over fifteen years. The monthly journal’s continued appeal is due in large part to its wonderfully diverse contributors, many of whom bring contrasting and often unexpected opinions to conversations about art and aesthetics. No other publication devotes as much space to the artist’s voice, allowing ideas to unfold and idiosyncrasies to emerge through open discussion. Selected and coedited by Jarrett Earnest, a frequent Rail contributor, with Lucas Zwirner, the book includes an introduction to the project by Phong Bui as well as many of the hand-drawn portraits he has made of those he has interviewed over the years. This combination of verbal and visual profiles offers a rare and personal insight into contemporary visual culture.
New Release
Al Taylor: Early Paintings
Al Taylor began his studio practice as a painter and although he is more widely known for the three-dimensional works he started making in 1985, the artist maintained that his constructions weren’t “at all about sculptural concerns; [they come] from a flatter set of traditions.” Throughout his career, whether he worked on canvas, drawings and prints, or sculpture, the creative process of Taylor’s oeuvre was fundamentally grounded in the formal concerns of painting. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in spring 2017, Al Taylor: Early Paintings is the first book to focus exclusively on the artist’s works on canvas, featuring a selection of rarely seen paintings created between 1971 and 1980.
New Release
Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work
This catalogue is published to coincide with a major survey at the New Museum, New York and traveling to Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, The Netherlands in 2017. The catalogue includes nearly 700 images, contributions from important figures in the art-historical and cultural fields, and a recent interview with the artist.
Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, The Netherlands
June 2 – October 29
New Release
James Welling: Metamorphosis
Marking the influential photographer’s first major European survey, this book features highlights from four decades of James Welling’s oeuvre. Emerging out of the “Picture Generation”—a group of artists focused on a critique of photographic media—James Welling has gone on to experiment successfully in nearly every photographic genre. This monograph, designed by Joseph Logan in close collaboration with the artist, presents a selection of works from the early 1970s to today, demonstrating the artist’s conceptual foundations.
James Welling: Metamorphosis
Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
May 5 – July 16
New Release
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
Kusama’s iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms, which originated with Phalli’s Field in 1965, situate viewers in kaleidoscopic spaces filled with multicolored lights or whimsical forms. These mirror-lined installations reflect endlessly, distorting rooms to project the illusion of infinite space. Generously illustrated, this publication—published on the occasion of the artist's major traveling exhibition—invites readers to examine the series’ impact over the course of the artist’s career.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors The Broad Art Gallery of Ontario
Seattle Art Museum
June 30 – September 10
October 21, 2017 – January, 10 2018
March 3 – May 27, 2018
New Release
Giorgio Morandi: Late Paintings
One of the most beloved painters of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi created works that continue to exert their mysterious power on viewers worldwide. This publication focuses on the period from 1948 to 1964, during which Morandi developed and refined his investigations of serial, reductive, and permutational forms and compositions, a body of work that has had a profound influence on twentieth-century art and painting. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition of Morandi’s paintings from this period at David Zwirner, New York—which, according to The New York Times, represent “lucid perfection, at once cerebral and impassioned.”
Forthcoming
Fred Sandback: Vertical Constructions
This catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in the fall of 2016, takes its lead from a 1987 mid-career presentation of Sandback’s work at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, also called Vertical Constructions. With a mixture of archival imagery of the sculptures in situ in Münster, and new photography of these works installed at Zwirner, this publication is both a historical document and a source of renewed attention to this body of work. It also features an expanded selection of sculpture, going beyond what was presented in the 1987 and 2016 exhibitions, to include key examples of vertical constructions spanning Sandback’s career.
Forthcoming
Luc Tuymans: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings Volume 1: 1972–1994
The first volume of a comprehensive record of paintings by the prolific Belgian artist Luc Tuymans highlights his generative early work. The years 1972 to 1994 witnessed the maturation of his signature method of painting from preexisting imagery—such as magazine images, Polaroids, and television footage—as well as his first solo exhibition.
New Release
Donald Judd Writings
With hundreds of pages of new and previously unpublished essays, notes, and letters, Donald Judd Writings is the most comprehensive collection of the artist’s writings assembled to date.
This timely publication includes Judd’s best-known essays, as well as little-known texts previously published in limited editions. Moreover, this new collection also includes unpublished college essays and hundreds of never-before-seen notes, a critical but unknown part of Judd’s writing practice.
New Release
ArtCenter Talks: Graduate Seminar
This collection of never-before-published talks at one of the leading art schools in the United States, documents an exciting decade in the development of contemporary art and arts education, featuring interviews with renowned artists, curators, and writers.
Introduced in 1986 as an initiative by Richard Hertz (Chair, Academic Studies, 1979–2003), the Graduate Art Department of the ArtCenter College of Design, located in Pasadena, California, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2016. This book documents the first decade of the department’s existence by presenting a selection from over three hundred talks, including a 1990 symposium conducted by renowned curator and art historian Robert Storr, as well as twelve talks from its artists and critics lecture series known as the Graduate Seminar.
New Release
William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest, Selected Works
Published on the occasion of David Zwirner’s New York exhibition of selections from The Democratic Forest in the fall of 2016, this new catalogue highlights over sixty exceptional images from Eggleston’s epic project. His photography is “democratic” in its resistance to hierarchy where, as noted by the artist, “no particular subject is more or less important than another.”
William Eggleston: Portraits
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
March 17 – June 18, 2017