Name: JULIAN SCHNABEL: SELECTED WORKS FROM HOME
Start: 2024-08-04T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-27T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Guild Hall

MARKS FAMILY GALLERY SOUTH, NORTH, AND & TITO SPIGA EXHIBITION SPACE

Julian Schnabel is a leading figure among the artists who reinvigorated the practice of painting in the late 1970s, adopting unconventional materials and ways to use them to create monumental works. He remains one of the seminal and most prolific artists of the last four decades and has been a significant figure in contemporary art discourse since his first New York solo show at Mary Boone Gallery in 1979. His experimental and often revolutionary approach extends throughout his creative work in various mediums—including painting, sculpture, architecture, and award-winning feature films. Every aspect of his life is filtered through a painter’s lens, as Schnabel lives and works in carefully considered spaces, often en plein air, surrounded by objects dating from antiquity to the present, many created by artists and artist friends, both living and dead, and by the artist himself.

Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home presents a selection of the artist’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures from his personal collection—the works he has chosen to keep for himself and to live among. The works on view, made over the last 45 years, include an early wax painting, Procession (for Jean Vigo) from 1979; Salinas Cruz, a painting on velvet from 1984; paintings on printed materials and tarpaulins; and multiple plate paintings, which show the different possibilities of working in this manner and with this specific material over decades. Schnabel’s art evokes a deep yet elusive connection to humanity. The installation of his large-scale works within Guild Hall’s intimate galleries offers visitors an all-encompassing, contemplative experience—a rare opportunity to lose oneself in the artworks, their history, and their transformation —and to capture a sense of time suspended.

This exhibition is organized by Melanie Crader, director of visual arts, in close collaboration with the artist, and Patrick Hillman, executive assistant to Julian Schnabel.

Following the success of their 2022 summer pop-up in East Hampton, TASCHEN is thrilled to return to the Hamptons, partnering with the cultural heart of the East End – Guild Hall.

Coinciding with the opening of Guild Hall’s summer exhibition Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home, TASCHEN will transform a section of the historic museum into a fully operational pop-up shop.

The TASCHEN pop-up will feature several Julian Schnabel x TASCHEN projects, including an exclusive collection of hand-painted skateboards by the artist, available to US collectors for the first time. The pop-up will also showcase limited edition book projects with contemporaries such as Annie Leibovitz and David Hockney, alongside a curated selection of TASCHEN’s most celebrated art books, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York. Portrait of a City, and Peter Beard.

The TASCHEN Pop-Up at Guild Hall is open to the public Thursday to Sunday, 12–5 PM and before theater programs.

Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel was born in New York City in 1951. In 1965, he moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas. He attended the University of Houston from 1969-73, receiving a BFA, and returned to New York to participate in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 1976-77, Schnabel traveled throughout Europe. He returned in 1978 and while in Barcelona was particularly moved by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí. That same year he made his first plate painting, The Patients and the Doctors.
Schnabel's work defies traditional categorization, culling distinct sources and disparate media engaging in material experimentation, negotiating the physicality of surface, and exploring the relationship between figuration and abstraction, the contradiction between the pictorial and the physical. His practice has always embraced unconventional methods– from employing velvet as his canvas, to layering shattered shards of ceramic onto wooden supports – to explore the physical potentials of the pictorial surface in a non-hierarchical, Whitmanesque manner, drawn from personal narratives that span history and mythology while reflecting the artist’s interest in philosophy and contemporary thought and humor.
Schnabel’s paintings, sculptures, and works on paper have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions around the world: Kuntsthalle, Basel, 1981; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1982; Tate Gallery, London, 1982; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1987; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 1987; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1987; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1987; Cuartel del Carmen, Seville, 1988; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, 1989; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 1989; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1989; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1989; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1989; CAPC Musee D’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, 1989; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, 1994; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1995; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 1995; Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, 1996; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2004; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palacio Velázquez, Madrid, 2004; Tabakalera, San Sebastián, 2007; Museum Kiasma, Helsinki, 2008; Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, 2009; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2010; Museo Correr, Piazza San Marco, Venice, 2011; The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, 2013; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, 2014; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2014; NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, 2014; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2016; Legion of Honor Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2018; Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2018; CAC Malaga, Malaga, 2022; Guild Hall, East Hampton, 2024; and Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, 2026.
In 1995, Schnabel wrote and directed the feature film Basquiat about fellow New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film was in the official selection of the 1996 Venice Film Festival. Schnabel’s second film, Before Night Falls, based on the life of the late exiled Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, won at the 2000 Venice Film Festival both the Grand Jury Prize and the Coppa Volpi for best actor, Javier Bardem, who was also nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards that year. In 2007, Schnabel directed his third film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Schnabel received the award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival as well as Best Director at the Golden Globe Awards, where the film won Best Film in a Foreign Language. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was nominated for four Oscars including Best Director. That same year he made a film of Lou Reed’s Berlin concert at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. In 2010 Schnabel’s film Miral premiered at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. Miral won the UNESCO as well as the UNICEF award at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. At Eternity’s Gate premiered at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, where Willem Dafoe won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his portrayal of Vincent Van Gogh. Dafoe was then nominated for Best Actor at both the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards. Schnabel’s latest film In the Hand of Dante – starring Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese and Jason Momoa – premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival where Schnabel received the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award.
Julian Schnabel currently lives and works in New York City and Montauk.
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Julian Schnabel. Photo: Louise Kugelberg, 2016

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