JULIAN SCHNABEL

Julian Schnabel makes art out of life, finding his materials in the fabric of the everyday.  He uses broken plates as an improbable picture ground; he paints on velvet, market stall covers, army tarps, kabuki theater backdrops, and boxing ring floors, found surfaces that lend their own rich history to the artist's exploration.  A figurehead for the return of the painting after his overnight success with a first New York solo show in 1979, he has since worked in a wide variety of media:  making sculptures that transpose his pictorial forms into space as raw, seemingly time worn artifacts; directing award winning movies that paint portraits of artists and other subtly heroic figures; and even building his own dream of a Venetian palace in New York.

Hardcover

9.8" x 13"

572 pages