New Monographs from 2024

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama’s (b. 1929) work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century: pop art and minimalism. Her highly influential career encompasses paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) established a singular visual vocabulary over the course of her more than four-decade career. While rooted in the conventions of abstraction, Mitchell’s inventive reinterpretation of the traditional figure-ground relationship and remarkable adeptness with color set her apart from her peers, resulting in intuitively constructed and emotionally charged compositions that alternately conjure individuals, observations, places, and points in time.

Alice Neel

One of the foremost American artists of the twentieth century, Alice Neel (1900–1984) is known for her daringly honest, humanist approach to the figure. Working from life and memory, she painted writers, poets, artists, activists, family, friends, and others around her with unfazed accuracy, honesty, and compassion. Calling herself a "collector of souls," Neel is acclaimed for not only capturing the truth of the individual, but also reflecting the era in which she lived.

Elizabeth Peyton

Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965) attended the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1984 to 1987. She had her first solo exhibition in 1987 at Althea Viafora Gallery in New York. The artist is based in New York and Paris.

Robert Ryman

Robert Ryman (1930–2019) is widely celebrated for his tactile works using white paint, in all its many permutations, which he executed using a range of painterly media on various supports, including paper, canvas, linen, aluminum, vinyl, and newsprint. His works are novel and sensitive explorations of the visual, material, and experiential qualities of his media that exist in a dialogue with their surroundings.

Luc Tuymans

One of the most important painters working today, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) pioneered a distinctive style of figurative painting beginning in the 1980s that has been singularly influential to his peers as well as subsequent generations of artists. The artist’s canvases are based on preexisting imagery from a range of sources and rendered in a restrained palette that belies an underlying moral complexity.

Yun Hyong-keun

Yun Hyong-keun’s (1928–2007) signature abstract compositions engaged and transcended Eastern and Western art movements and visual traditions, establishing him as one of the most significant Korean artists of the twentieth century. He is the most prominent figure associated with the Dansaekhwa (monochromatic painting) movement, a group of influential Korean artists from the 1960s and 1970s who experimented with the physical properties of painting and prioritized technique and process.