Abstraction

About Bridget Riley, represents a monumental body of research and analysis by some of the most important art historians of today. It also offers the opportunity for the reader and the viewer to approach Riley from a plethora of perspectives to form their own...

This career-spanning exhibition catalog reveals the enormous artistic achievements - both individual and shared - of two of the greatest pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Featuring more than two hundred and fifty works, including paintings, photographs, drawings, textiles and furniture, this essential volume traces the...

The 2013 exhibition Donald Judd: Stacks at Mnuchin Gallery focused on this single aspect of Donald Judd's work. Featuring ten stacks from four decades, this was the first exhibition devoted to this iconic form in Judd’s oeuvre and the history of modern sculpture. Judd is...

Nicholas Krushenick (b.1929) is a key figure in the history of late 20th-century American art. Juxtaposing broad black lines with bold, flat colours, Krushenick created hard-edged abstractions that fill his canvases from corner to corner. His energetic forms used experiments in cut paper collage...

Text in English and German This publication centres on Gormley’s work, Expansion Field consisting of sixty steel sculptures whose orthogonal shapes are derived from different postures of the artist’s body. Expansion Field ties in with the other Field works by the sculptor and in...

This book was published to accompany the exhibition Joan Mitchell | Christine Ay Tjoe at Mnuchin Gallery in 2023. The exhibition sparked a dialogue between Joan Mitchell and Christine Ay Tjoe, two trailblazers of 20th and 21st century abstraction. The exhibition featured masterworks by both...

The first in-depth study of a group of artists known for their irony, their theoretical impulses, and their market success in the 1980s. Emerging from New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, the so-called neo-geo artists were a loosely associated group that...

This is a rich and comprehensive monograph on the innovative abstract site related installations of German artist Katharina Grosse (b.1961). Grosse's daring move from the canvas into both architectural space and the landscape, with her signature colourful spray paintings, has resulted in a deeply...

This is the first full-length monograph on the paintings of Bernard Frize (b.1949), an artist whose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Frize's works utilise a carefully constructed range of tools, processes, choreography and collaboration to...

This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-collé, marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe...

Over the last three decades, Jacqueline Humphries (b.1960) has, through an innovative painterly process, challenged the limits of abstraction. She has produced a body of work that reaches beyond modernism, Abstract Expressionism, and abstraction as we know it.Multi-layered in application, Humphries challenges the viewer...

Text in German With his pioneering visual language, not least inspired by children and the mentally ill, Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) succeeded in disengaging himself from traditions and reinventing art, so to speak. Dubuffet’s influence can also still be felt in contemporary art and Street...

Rare & Collectible The roots of the strong link between Jean Dubuffet and Venice lie in the past. It is no accident that the city has hosted two famous exhibitions that marked crucial stages in the artist’s career: one held in Palazzo Grassi in...

The exhibition  Guston | Morandi | Scully traced the visual affinities between Philip Guston (1913-1980), Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), and Sean Scully (b.1945). This catalogue features an essay by artist and critic Phong Bui. Guston, Morandi, and Scully work in series and revisit the same...

The exhibition Franz Kline at Mnuchin Gallery in 2025 featured fifteen paintings from 1950 to 1960, along with a selection of works on paper, with a focus on the reappraisal of Kline’s oeuvre, situating his innovations within their midcentury context while engaging with the...

The exhibition: de Kooning | Shiraga at Mnuchin Gallery in 2022 marked the first time these two masters of postwar abstraction had been shown side-by-side. This catalogue features an essay - Careless Exactitude - by art historian Pepe Karmel, with an additional text by Fergus...

The Joy of Color brings together paintings and sculpture spanning eight decades, united by their unbridled celebration of colour’s power to inspire and uplift. From the expressive gestures and rich impastos of Philip Guston and Joan Mitchell, to the luminous stained canvases of Morris...

This beautifully produced catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition Morris Louis: Veils at Mnuchin Gallery in 2014. This was the first exhibition devoted exclusively to Louis’s breakthrough series in over thirty years.  The book presents nine superlative works from the series, including a...

This is the first monograph to give an overview of the entire career to date of artist Ding Yi (b. 1962), whose work, unlike most other well-known Chinese painters, is wholly abstract.  Large in scale, and extraordinary in detail, Ding Yi's paintings invite a...

This book presents a detailed account of Guillermo Kuitca's major bodies of work, analysing his diverse range of imagery and reflecting on his engagement with the spaces in which we live.Following Kuitca’s development from the 1980s to more recent work, the narrative reveals an...