Gagosian Gallery

The Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned by Larry Gagosian. There are seven locations: four in the United States (three in New York, one in Beverly Hills), two in London, and one in Rome, Italy.

Exhibited artists include Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Frank Stella, Rachel Whiteread, Jake and Dinos Chapman, John Currin, Jasper Johns, Gilbert and George and Nan Goldin.

In 1996, "No Sense of Absolute Corruption", was Hirst's first solo show in the gallery.

In September 2000, in New York, Gagosian held the Hirst show, "Damien Hirst: Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings". 100,000 people visited the show in 12 weeks, and all the work was sold. The exhibiton was the subject of a Channel 4 TV documentary in the UK.

In 2003, the US government took out a lawsuit against Gagosian and three others for $26.5 million in taxes. [http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/n_8712/index.html?A=11 New York Magazine] , retrieved 26.3.06]

Art critic Jed Perl, writing in the New Republic (2.5.07), reflected on the increasing corruption of taste evidenced by galleries like Gagosian in an essay titled: "What money is doing to art, or how the art world lost its mind: Laissez-Faire Aesthetics." Perl observed that, "The big galleries don't do shows anymore, they do coronations and requiems. Larry Gagosian has perfected this style. His exhibition spaces are so extraordinarily scaled that on the rare occasions when the art is really good, as was the case with the David Smith show "Personnage" last spring, the grandiosity can feel genuine. But when the coronation is for John Currin, the corruption is almost unbearable."

Galleries

Current Locations

Former Locations

*SoHo - New York City
*Heddon Street - London, UK
*Moscow
*First Baptist Church Gym - Los Angeles

Artists Represented

*Ghada Amer
*Old Space New Artists
*Richard Artschwager
*Francis Bacon
*Roger Ballen
*François-Marie Banier
*Georg Baselitz
*Jean-Michel Basquiat
*Max Beckmann
*Joseph Beuys
*Alighiero e Boetti
*Cecily Brown
*Glenn Brown
*Chris Burden
*Alexander Calder
*Francesco Clemente
*Michael Craig-Martin
*Gregory Crewdson
*John Currin
*Dexter Dalwood
*Walter De Maria
*Philip-Lorca diCorcia
*Alberto Di Fabio
*Mark di Suvero
*Todd Eberle
*Tracey Emin
*Roe Ethridge
*Lucio Fontana
*Tom Friedman
*Ellen Gallagher
*Gelitin
*Alberto Giacometti
*Douglas Gordon
*Arshile Gorky
*Mark Grotjahn
*Richard Hamilton
*Damien Hirst
*Howard Hodgkin
*Carsten Höller
*Edward Hopper
*Rachel Howard
*Neil Jenney
*Jasper Johns
*Y.Z. Kami
*Mike Kelley
*Anselm Kiefer
*Martin Kippenberger
*Yves Klein
*Franz Kline
*Jeff Koons
*Yayoi Kusama
*Roy Lichtenstein
*Maya Lin
*Vera Lutter
*Monica Majoli
*Sally Mann
*Mario Merz
*Takashi Murakami
*Marc Newson
*Paul Noble
*Tim Noble & Sue Webster
*Steven Parrino
*Pino Pascali
*Paul Pfeiffer
*Richard Phillips
*Pablo Picasso
*Jackson Pollock
*Richard Prince
*Anselm Reyle
*Nancy Rubins
*Ed Ruscha
*Tom Sachs
*Jenny Saville
*Julian Schnabel
*Richard Serra
*Cindy Sherman
*Elisa Sighicelli
*Taryn Simon
*David Smith
*Alec Soth
*Hiroshi Sugimoto
*Philip Taaffe
*Mark Tansey
*Al Taylor
*Robert Therrien
*Cy Twombly
*Piotr Uklański
*Francesco Vezzoli
*Andy Warhol
*Franz West
*Rachel Whiteread
*Christopher Wool
*Richard Wright

References

External links

* [http://www.gagosian.com/ Gagosian Gallery official website]
* [http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/H/hirst/index.html Channel 4 site on Damien Hirst's show at Gagosian in 2000]