C&M Arts is pleased to present Julian Schnabel: Selected
Paintings. This exhibition comprises twenty-one major works
from 1978 - 2001 and will be on view from April 7 - June 4, 2005. Julian
Schnabel’s rise to fame began with his first exhibitions in the
mid-seventies and early-eighties. Drawn to daringly painted, larger
than life images, Schnabel’s sense of the epic continues to fascinate
and provoke a world-wide public.
Running from the early Plate Paintings to the more recent Big Girls,
Schnabel’s work remains fearless in scale and structure. The paintings
in this exhibition range from radical reformulations of great themes
of western art, as in St. Francis in Ecstasy, to poignantly
tender portraits like Mi Vida. The show will also include other
noted works, such as The Sea, Ethnic Type # 14, and the first
plate painting, The Patients and the Doctors.
Julian Schnabel: Selected Paintings is accompanied
by a catalogue with an essay by Robert Pincus-Witten, who contends “that
Schnabel’s real ambition is the desire for an art that continually
asserts its authority, humanity, originality and beauty.” This
exhibition would not have been possible without the close collaboration
of the artist and his studio.
