Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel is the catalogue for the artist's solo exhibition at the Brant Foundation from November 11, 2013 through April 1, 2014, a comprehensive survey of almost fifty works including paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the mid-1970's to the present. Since his first solo exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery in 1979, Schnabel has forged a singular pictorial language that embraces unconventional methods and materials. Beginning with his earliest works, Schnabel broke with the prevailing paradigm of Conceptual Art by forging a unique artistic practice that embraced figuration, personal narratives and references to history and mythology. Challenging the notion that there is any difference between figurative and abstract painting, Schnabel has founded his work on an infinite exploration of different ways of putting paint on a pictorial surface.