Julian Opie
1958-
New York Couple2, 4, 5, 8., Screenprint (ed. 55), 125.2x91.2cm. 2019
New York Couple2, 4, 5, 8., Screenprint (ed. 55), 125.2x91.2cm. 2019
CV
EXHIBITION
2019 Julian Opie - Stone Heads, Bode Gallery
2018 Julian Opie: Recent Works, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los AngelesJulian Opie, Cristea Roberts Gallery, LondonJulian Opie, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Julian Opie: Nature 1, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2015 Julian Opie: Editions 2012 - 2015, Cristea Roberts Gallery, LondonSummer 2015, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
2013 Julian Opie, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke
TEXTS
Julian Opie's distinctive reductive style draws from diverse influences including billboards, classical portraiture and sculpture, dance, Japanese woodblocks, and cartoons. His work comprises silhouettes, animations, LED animations, and simplified portraits and landscapes (such as Landscape? from 1998-99, a screen print of trees, grass, and sky in a flat pictorial rendering that recalls a child's puzzle). Employing a variety of media and technologies to make "paintings" of his subjects, Opie distills everyday images and experiences into concise but evocative signs and pictograms.
