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James Bishop Solo Exhibition
by David Zwirner
Location: David Zwirner (537 West 20th Street)
Date: 6 Sep - 26 Oct 2014

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by American artist James Bishop. The exhibition will include works spanning the artist’s prolific career and will present several large square-format paintings on canvas from the 1960s to the early 1980s, as well as small-scale paintings on paper, to which Bishop turned exclusively in 1986 and continues to produce today. Providing a rare opportunity to view the artist’s important body of work, the show will be his first solo presentation in New York since 1987.

Throughout his career, Bishop has engaged European and American traditions of post-War abstraction, including monochrome and color-field painting, while developing a subtle, poetic, and highly unique visual language of his own. Alternating between—and at times interweaving—painting and drawing, Bishop’s works explore the ambiguities and paradoxes between material opacity and transparency, flatness and spatiality, as well as linear tectonics and loosely composed forms. Privileging the nuanced and expressive qualities of color and scale, Bishop’s luminous works have been described by American poet and art critic John Ashbery as “half architecture, half air.”1 

Born in 1927 in Neosho, Missouri, Bishop studied painting at Black Mountain College and art history at Columbia University under Meyer Shapiro before traveling to Europe in 1957 and settling in Blévy, France. His work has been the subject of major exhibitions: in 1993-94, James Bishop, Paintings and Works on Paper traveled from the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, to the Galerie Nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster; and in 2007-09, James Bishop. Malerie auf Papier/Paintings on Paper, traveled from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, to the Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop, Germany, and The Art Institute of Chicago. 

Bishop’s work can be found in important public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe including The Art Institute of Chicago; Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Musée de Grenoble; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tel Aviv Museum; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; and Kunsthaus Zurich, among others. This is his first exhibition at David Zwirner.

1. John Ashbery, “The American Painter James Bishop,” in Dieter Schwarz and Alfred Pacquement, eds., James Bishop: Paintings and Works on Paper (Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, 1993), p. 109.

*image (left)
James Bishop
State, 1972
Oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches
© 2014 James Bishop

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