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The emergence of artist Julian Schnabel as a mythical figure was a phenomenon of the modern art world in the 1980s. Once considered the bad boy of the New York art scene, Schnabel seemed to rise to prominence from nowhere. After earning a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Houston, Schnabel toured Europe before returning to his home of New York City. On his journeys both stateside and abroad, while living a bohemian lifestyle, Schnabel tackled many occupations, including cab driver and cook. Once he began painting as a profession, Schnabel's ability for self-promotion propelled him into the limelight.
Enormous canvases filled with vibrant colors and bold strokes typify Schnabel's paintings. With his first exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery in 1980, which launched him into the New York art scene, he gathered a following for his emotion-filled unusual works. By the time he exhibited his work in a show jointly organized by Boone and Leo Castelli in 1981, he had become firmly established, and a clamoring for his neo-expressionist paintings created on and with remarkable surfaces ensued. Schnabel's signature works, both abstract and figurative, have as a base surface either black velvet or broken crockery. Filled with raw emotion, the paintings contain an underlying edge of brutality while still being suffused with energy. Schnabel claims that he's "aiming at an emotional state, a state that people can literally walk into and be engulfed by." The monstrous canvases have elements of collage, yet his arrival as an artist signified the return of painting to an art scene that previously revolved around conceptual and minimalist art.
Schnabel's quick rise to popularity became representative of the money-driven 1980s. His notoriety exemplified the commercialization of the art world that related to the economic boom. Considered heroic, with his charismatic and somewhat eccentric personality--the artist worked in pajamas, slippers, and robe--Schnabel became a superstar in art. Controversially, his persona, carefully hyped, often outshone the artwork itself, which inspired debate by critics as to whether it actually held any artistic merit. To the art-buying public, Schnabel's work was the work to own, and his exhibitions often sold out. A proficient artist who worked quickly, Schnabel once claimed to have sold more than sixty canvases in one year. Typifying the era, many critics judged Schnabel's success as an artist based on the incredible demand for his work. With the recession of the late 1980s and the stabilization of the economy in the 1990s, Schnabel's star faded somewhat.
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Julian Schnabel's CV
1951 -
1951 Born in New York, New York
1965 Moves to Brownsville, Texas
1969-73 Attends the University of Houston, Texas, receives B.F.A.
1973-74 Participates in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York
Selected Exhibitions and Releases
2002 Illustraded Catalog, Big Girl Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2001 Included in exhibition, Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
2000 Included in exhibitions: The International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture: Contemporary American Sculpture, Monaco; The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th Century Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
1999 Included in exhibitions: The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Bad-Bad: That is a Good Excuse, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
1997 Included in exhibitions: The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; La Biennale de Venezia: Future, Present, Past, XLVII International Arts Exhibition, Venice
1996 Release of film, Basquiat, directed and produced by Schnabel
1994 Julian Schnabel: Retrospective, at the Museo de Monterrey, Mexico; included in exhibition, U.S. Painting of the 1980s, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1993 Included in Drawing the Line Against AIDS, exhibition in conjunction with Art Against AIDS Venezia, under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Colletion, Venice
1992 Included in exhibitions: Le Portrait Dans L'Art Contemporain, at the Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France; Manifeste, at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1991 Solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; included in exhibitions: The 1980's: Selections from the Permanent Collection, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Toward a New Museum: Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture,
1985-1991, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
1989 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Works on Paper 1975-1988, originating at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
1986 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Paintings 1975-1986, originating at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1985 Completes four etching, lithographs published by Pace Editions, New York
1984-2001 Solo exhibitions at PaceWildenstein, New York
1984 First solo exhibition at the Pace Gallery, New York
1979 First solo exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Selected Public and Private Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Kunstmuseum Basel und Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, England
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
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