Gaby Bazin

Vineet Lal

Meet the Typographer, David Zwirner Books, 2024

Written and illustrated by Gaby Bazin. Translated by Vineet Lal

Enter the workshop, meet the typographer, and discover the world of letterpress printing.

 showcases the fascinating evolution and technique of letterpress printing in colorful and engaging illustrations. Armed with little characters made of lead, a typographer reveals the secrets of his craft and its history, from Gutenberg to the present. Gaby Bazin takes readers into the studio, unveiling the enchanting world of movable type.

Following the mission of the children’s imprint at David Zwirner Books, this publication illuminates yet another creative role in the art industry, offering a distinct perspective on the printed medium and the fine art of typography.

Cover of a book titled Meet the Typographer, published by David Zwirner Books in 2025.

Interior spread of a book titled Meet the Typographer, published by David Zwirner Books in 2025.

Meet the Typographer

Doro Globus

Rose Blake

Books Making a great exhibition and I Am an artist by David Zwirner Books

 series, a collaborative project by author Doro Globus and illustrator Rose Blake, aims to dismantle barriers within the art world, paving a colorful and accessible path for budding artists. Through engaging narratives, hands-on activities, and insights into the lives of a diversity of artists, these books provide a gateway for children in classrooms everywhere to explore their creative impulses and discover the boundless possibilities of self-expression.

 offers young readers exciting insights into the many ways artists work and the reasons why they make art. Geared to children ages 4 to 8, but with appeal for all ages, this colorful and playful book asks: Who are artists? Why do they make art? What materials do they use? What tools do they work with? What forms do their artworks take?

 explores the inner workings of artists and museums. This fun, inside look at the life of an artwork shows the journey of two artists’ work from studio to exhibition. Stopping along the way we meet colorful characters—curators, photographers, shippers, museum visitors, and more!

Interior spread, Making a Great Exhibition, David Zwirner Books, 2024

How Art Works

A scuplture by Yayoi Kusama called Dancing Pumpkin dated 2020

Yayoi Kusama, 2021.  Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki

Lynn Zelevansky

Robert Slifkin

Cover of a book titled Yayoi Kusama (Special Edition), published by David Zwirner Books in 2024.

This special edition featuring a slipcase is available in a limited run of 300 hand-numbered copies.

Texts by Robert Slifkin and Lynn Zelevansky

The newest book on the internationally celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama presents her latest monumental and vibrant work and is the first to explore the experience of seeing it from the lens of the visitor

“My entire life has been painted here. Every day, any day. I will never cease dedicating my whole life to my love for the universe.” —Yayoi Kusama

One of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Kusama has created a profoundly personal oeuvre that resonates with a global audience. Distinctly recognizable, her works frequently deploy repetitive elements such as dots to evoke both microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Celebrating the visitor experience, this publication offers an immersive tour of Kusama’s 2023 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York. Illustrating thirty-five paintings, a gigantic sculptural installation of pumpkins, a trio of towering, colorful flower sculptures, and a fan-favorite Infinity Mirror Room, 

is a vivid document with varying perspectives that echo Kusama’s own.

New scholarship by Robert Slifkin considers how Kusama innovates and complicates art-historical traditions of image production and how her art seeks to connect humans with the greater cosmos. An essay by Lynn Zelevansky reflects on her own long-standing engagement with Kusama’s work and the ways in which it, across the decades, can be seen as a record of love in all its complexity: full of humanity, generosity, affection, sadness, and pain.

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers (Special Edition), David Zwirner Books, 2024

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers (Special Edition)

Jordan Wolfson, 2023, National Gallery of Australia. Photo by Karlee Holland. Courtesy National Gallery of Australia

Edited by Russell Storer. Contributions by Genevieve Bell, Russell Ferguson, Anne Imhof, Andrew Meares, Mark Setrakian, and Richard Taylor. 

A celebration of the first work by Wolfson to enter an Australian collection



Artist Jordan Wolfson is emblematic of the time in which we live. As we grapple with our relationship to technology, our immersion in internet culture, and social issues of racial and gender inequality, alienation, and violence, Wolfson confronts us with their images, actions, and effects. His works act as witnesses on the world we are in right now rather than taking a moral position or articulating a particular point of view. They are therefore often uncomfortable to experience, as well as being deeply intriguing in their extraordinary visual power and technical sophistication.

In this publication, the National Gallery of Australia has gathered robust ideas, facilitated discussions, and sought unique perspectives that position Wolfson's major work within diverse contexts, including art history, cybernetics, and media theory. Contributors include Mark Setrakian, Wolfson's principal collaborator; Richard Taylor of Wētā Workshop; Russell Ferguson, a curator, writer, and longtime observer of Wolfson's work; Genevieve Bell and Andrew Meares from the Australian National University School of Cybernetics; and artist Anne Imhof. The publication's creative vision has been driven by the artist and features stunning documentary photographs by David Sims and design by Joseph Logan.

Body Sculpture: Jordan Wolfson

Detail of an oil on linen painting, titled Clear Message, dated 2019.

A double catalogue covering two manifestations at Xavier Hufkens gallery by Josh Smith, who is known for painting series of simple yet highly distinctive visual motifs. Part of the New York-based artist’s ongoing process of image production and experimentation, the paintings are autonomous entities but also part of a larger “family” of interrelated works. ‘Finding Emo’ (2019) featured new paintings and monotypes depicting the Grim Reaper. Following on that was ‘Keyhole’ (2022), in which Smith showed a new series of large-format paintings and figurative monotypes in which he addresses abstraction, expanding on this recurrent theme in terms of scale, palette, and energy.

Josh Smith: Finding Emo / Keyhole

Edited by Glenn Adamson, Dakin Hart and Kate Wiener. Contributions by Ai Fukunaga, Nonie Gadsden, Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Laura Kina, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Margo Machida, Laura Mott and Katy Siegel

An expansive look at the multifaceted American artist Toshiko Takaezu within the history of postwar artmaking

Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was an American artist whose multidisciplinary work in ceramics, painting, sculpture, weaving, and installation innovatively drew from the natural world, combining expressionist energies with influences from East Asia. The closed ceramic forms for which she is best known are effectively abstract paintings in the round. Her reputation as a ceramic artist, however, has obscured the breadth of her output in other mediums and her role within the larger art movements of the twentieth century. This book provides the first retrospective assessment of Takaezu’s art and life, representing her diverse oeuvre, which spanned six decades, and her hybrid identity as an Asian American woman, artist, and teacher. 

This ambitious volume features essays exploring Takaezu’s biography, her background as a Hawai‘i-born artist of Okinawan heritage, the relationship between her abstract work and that of her contemporaries, the role of cultural exchange in her art, her impact as an educator, and more. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 300 images of artworks and archival photographs, and including an updated chronology, exhibition history, and recollections from the artist’s former apprentices, the book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of this singular artist’s career.

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

An untitled painting by Noah Davis, dated 2015.

A sculpture by Ruth Asawa, called Untitled (S.175, Hanging Single-Lobed, Four-Layer Continuous Form within a Form), dated c. 1992.

Ruth Asawa with hanging wire sculpture, 1951. Photo © Imogen Cunningham Trust

The Artist Journals

The Artist Journals Collection, David Zwirner Books, 2024

 go beyond canonical art to capture the modern and contemporary spirit of today’s most acclaimed painters, sculptors, and other major creative forces. Created in close collaboration with each artist or artist’s estate, these beautifully produced blank books—with their stunning wraparound cover artwork, endpapers, patterned interior pages, and bellybands that transform into collectible bookmarks—are works of art themselves, designed to inspire, collect, and gift to a wide audience.

The Artist Journals Collection, 2024, David Zwirner Books

The Artist Journals Collection

A detail of a photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans titled Sicily Morning, dated 2018.

, is driven by a desire to explore and to expose. It navigates joy and heartbreak amid ruin and rebuilding, embodying hopeful defiance in uncertain futures. The songs vary in style, from propulsive and catchy to contemplative, featuring lush instrumentals transitioning into danceable beats. Tillmans's voice, whether growling and confrontational or tender and stripped down, maintains its prominence throughout, serving as the album's core.



Where Does The Tune Hide
Regratitude
Cab Ride
Primal (Intro)
We Are Not Going Back
Morning Light
ADA403
French Lesson
Grüne Linien Feat. FRAGILE
Build From Here
Modernist Survival Unit
There's More That Connects Us
Not Telling A Friend
Language

Wolfgang Tillmans: Build From Here EP

In celebration of one of Kusama’s most iconic infinity rooms

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is known worldwide for her polka dots and colorful, immersive light installations featuring unusual and organic forms, such as pumpkins. 

 is a tribute to her beloved and singular practice, with a particular focus on 

 from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. 

 is a room-sized installation where, as the title suggests, the lights seem almost natural, like fireflies on a quiet summer’s night. The pool of water creates an incredible sense of stillness and the mirrors reflect never-ending images of themselves, creating a sidereal ambience. Space appears infinite, without top or bottom, beginning or end. As in Yayoi Kusama’s early installations, including her 

 embodies an almost hallucinatory approach to reality.

Yayoi Kusama: Present Infinite

A detail of an artwork by Michaël Borremans titled The Commuter II dated 2022

Portrait of Michaël Borremans, 2025. Photo by Charlie De Keersmaecker 

Katya Tylevich

Presenting the Belgian artist Michaël Borremans’s newest group of psychologically charged paintings, this catalogue highlights his exceptional technical skill, interest in figuration, and innovative approach to mise-en-scène.

“Everything is a self-portrait. And now I have been painting monkeys. . . . It’s like making a movie.” —Michaël Borremans, 

 showcases seventeen paintings that reveal his interest in exploring surface and artifice. Borremans portrays mysterious sitters—including the titular monkeys, which are glazed toy figurines—and depicts enigmatic scenes that simultaneously invite viewers in and keep them at bay.

Katya Tylevich’s insightful commentary delves into the depths of Borremans’s compositions, connecting the themes and motifs in 

 to those present in previous bodies of work. Tylevich delves into the complex emotional and art-historical registers at play in the artist’s new paintings and maps the trajectory of his practice, observing other instances of repetition and fabulation across his practice. The publication, featuring this essay alongside beautifully illustrated images of the new paintings, serves as the ideal complement to the artist’s 2024 exhibition at David Zwirner, London.


Michaël Borremans: The Monkey,  David Zwirner Books, 2024

Michaël Borremans: The Monkey

A detail from a painting by Katherine Bernhardt, titled Escape from New York, dated 2020.

Suzanne Hudson

Cover of a book titled Katherine Bernhardt Special Edition, published by David Zwirner Books in 2023

This special edition featuring a slipcase and a signed, numbered bookplate designed by the artist is available in a limited run of 250 copies.

Dazzling and playful, Katherine Bernhardt’s paintings highlight her fascination with American pop vernacular, from Pokémon and the Pink Panther to Crocs and psilocybin mushrooms.

“Bernhardt has always been impressive for her ability to combine the immediate, seductive properties of paint with the infectious humor of topical pop culture.” —

Bernhardt’s boundless visual appetite has established her as one of the most exciting painters working today. Thinking about the relationship between art, objects, and commerce, Bernhardt spotlights iconic motifs of cartoons and cultural symbols. Colors and lines bleed and pool together, revealing Bernhardt’s brisk and improvisational process. Monumental in size, subject matter, and vibrancy, her works demand attention.

Expanding on the exhibition at David Zwirner, London, in 2022, this catalogue includes additional paintings and works on paper in which Bernhardt develops her ongoing body of work. With many details of paintings, this significant publication gives the artist’s work ample space to play. Suzanne Hudson’s essay considers Bernhardt’s work from an art-historical perspective and explores the artist’s work and life.

Katherine Bernhardt: Why is a mushroom growing in my shower? (Special Edition)

The newest book from the internationally celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama presents her latest monumental and vibrant work and is the first to explore the experience of seeing it from the lens of the visitor.

 is a vivid document with varying perspectives that echo Kusama’s own.

New scholarship by Robert Slifkin considers how Kusama innovates and complicates art-historical traditions of image production and how her art seeks to connect humans with the greater cosmos. An essay by Lynn Zelevansky reflects on her own long-standing engagement with Kusama’s work and the ways in which it, across the decades, can be seen as a record of love in all its complexity: full of humanity, generosity, affection, sadness, and pain.



 featuring a slipcase is available in a limited run of 300 hand-numbered copies.

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, David Zwirner Books,2024

interior spread, Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, David Zwirner Books, 2024

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, 2024

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers

Edwin Denby

Cal Revely-Calder

ekphrasis

That Still Moment, Poetry and Essays on Dance, David Zwirner Books, 2024

By Edwin Denby. Introduction by Cal Revely-Calder

 series focuses on dance and poetry through the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest critics.

“I am interested at the moment in recalling to you how it looks when one sees dancing as non-professionals do, in the way you yourselves I suppose look at pictures, at buildings, at political history or at landscapes or at strangers you pass on the street. Or as you read poetry.” —Edwin Denby

After starting his career as a dancer in Germany, Edwin Denby moved to Manhattan, where he formed friendships with prominent members of the New York School, including Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, and artists such as Rudy Burckhardt. In his critical writing, he brought his experience as a dancer to the page along with a poet’s sensibility, distinguishing himself as an authority through delicate observation and illustrative prose. This collection of writings highlights Denby’s interdisciplinary scope and range of expression, as well as his sharp, singular voice and empirical sensibility toward all works of art.



 pairs Denby’s landmark essays on dance criticism and portraits of major performers, such as Vaslav Nijinsky, with selections of his poetry that are long out of print. The writer and editor Cal Revely-Calder further contextualizes Denby’s life and work in his insightful introduction.

That Still Moment Poetry and Essays on Dance, David Zwirner Books, 2024

interior spread, That Still Moment Poetry and Essays on Dance, David Zwirner Books, 2024

Poetry and Essays on Dance

That Still Moment

A detail from a work by Robert Ryman, titled Winsor 34, dated 1966.

Jeffrey Kastner

Lucy Lippard

Dieter Schwarz

Texts by Jeffrey Kastner, Lucy Lippard, and Dieter Schwarz

An extensive look at Robert Ryman’s formative work from the early 1960s, as well as his last series of paintings

In the 1960s, Robert Ryman began to firmly establish the broad parameters of his radical and inventive practice. While he initially gained recognition for work he made in the late 1960s and early 1970s, his earlier paintings have remained less widely seen.

This publication includes representative works of all facets of Ryman’s painterly practice during this time—influenced by his career as a jazz musician—including his use of thick impasto brushstrokes on both stretched and unstretched canvas; heavily or sparsely worked paintings in both small and large formats; and a group of rarely seen works on raw linen, each featuring one or several seemingly complete, independent compositions. Many of these works feature subtle suggestions of colorful underpainting that leave an outsized effect on the viewing experience, while in other works Ryman’s assertive use of green, red, and blue intensifies the visual presence of the various white tones.

Revealing the breadth of Ryman’s work, this catalogue also includes a selection of drawings, many of which were made concurrently with the early works, as well as his last paintings. The final canvases demonstrate the inexhaustible and probing nature of Ryman’s singular approach to painting over his five-decade career. The details reveal the visual presence of various white tones, creating an interplay between color and absence and dimensionality that characterizes much of Ryman’s oeuvre.

Cover of a book titled Robert Ryman: Early and Late published by David Zwirner Books in 2024.

Interior spread from a book titled Robert Ryman: Early and Late published by David Zwirner Books in 2024.

Robert Ryman: Early and Late

Yves Michaud

Julie Otsuka

Amy Sillman

Shinique Smith

Lily Stockman

Book cover, Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979–1985, David Zwirner Books, 2024

Text by Julie Otsuka. Contributions by Amy Sillman, Shinique Smith, and Lily Stockman. Conversation between Joan Mitchell and Yves Michaud

Discover Joan Mitchell’s powerful and dynamic work—spotlighted in this book as never before.



“An entry for one of the best shows of 2022. . . . Mitchell, then in her 50s, reaches peak form in gathering brushstrokes that flicker and burn like auras on fire.” —Jerry Saltz, 



This highly anticipated publication focuses on the years 1979 to 1985—a significant and deeply generative period within Joan Mitchell’s decades-long career. As Mitchell became even more fully immersed in daily life at her property in Vétheuil, France—surrounded by lush gardens, and challenged and inspired by new creative relationships—her studio practice flourished and her work became even more ambitious and expansive. Executed in an increasingly bold palette, the works from this period exemplify Mitchell’s nuanced mastery of composition, scale, and color. In addition to her large-scale abstract works, this publication features numerous smaller paintings and a selection of archival materials.

Included in the book are several texts that complement the illustrated works. A new essay by the bestselling author Julie Otsuka recollects her encounters with Mitchell’s paintings over the years. A fascinating conversation between Mitchell and the French philosopher Yves Michaud from 1986 is featured. Reflections by the artists Amy Sillman, Shinique Smith, and Lily Stockman each explore a unique component of Mitchell’s oeuvre or practice, underscoring Mitchell’s continued influence on artists today.

interior spread, Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979–1985, David Zwirner Books, 2024

Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979–1985

A portrait of Gerhard Richter by Werner Bartsch.

Gerhard Richter: Foricano, 26 Drawings, David Zwirner Books, 2024

Gerhard Richter’s newest facsimile-like artist’s book is focused on a single work comprising twenty-six drawings



“[Richter’s drawings] are of stringent individuality and recognizably by Richter’s hand, not based on their signature style but rather because they make their theme the act of drawing itself, gauging the conditions of drawing.” —Dieter Schwarz

In this new work, Richter combines various elements from a limited set of forms and techniques—meandering lines, broad tonal planes applied with angled strokes of graphite, and passages of smudging, hatching, and erasure—thereby uniting choice and chance in an infinitely generative process. The suite of works on paper from 2023 encapsulates and refines the fundamental principles that have consistently defined Richter’s artistic journey. Reproduced at actual size, the drawings encourage in-depth observation and inspire a compelling reimagining of abstraction.


Cover of a book titled Gerhard Richter: Foricano, 26 Drawings, published by David Zwirner Books in 2024

Cover of a book titled Gerhard Richter: Foricano 26 Drawings, published by David Zwirner Books in 2024.

Interior spread from a book titled Gerhard Richter: Foricano 26 Drawings, published by David Zwirner Books in 2024.

26 Drawings

Gerhard Richter: Foricano

The Problem of Taste: On the Late, Great Dave Hickey with Jarrett Earnest

1-Up

Dave Hickey

Jarrett Earnest

By Dave Hickey. Edited and with an introduction by Jarrett Earnest

From the legendary and iconoclastic critic Dave Hickey, a collection of twenty of his most emblematic essays on art

“We really don’t need to know the aesthetic and moral parameters of a work to love it—­only to know they are there.” —Dave Hickey

The late Dave Hickey was a singular voice on art, music, democracy, and culture. Known for his radical criticism, he united different worlds through a range of literary styles and techniques to ultimately explore what it means to be human. Complementing his iconic collections 

 unites twenty of Hickey’s characteristically astute essays on art from over twenty years, most of which were originally published in exhibition catalogues that are long out of print. The result is a volume that shows the writer at his most creative and incisive in an ever-relevant exploration of beauty and value. Compiled and with an introduction by the writer and critic Jarrett Earnest, and featuring cover art by Ed Ruscha, this latest book is ideal for cult followers and new readers of Hickey, for artists and art critics, and for thinkers across all disciplines.

Including essays on Terry Allen, Karen Carson, Sarah Charlesworth, Vija Celmins, Vernon Fisher, Robert Gober, Ann Hamilton, Luis Jiménez, Hung Liu, Josiah McElheny, Elizabeth Peyton, Lari Pittman, David Reed, Bridget Riley, Norman Rockwell, Ed Ruscha, Steve Schapiro, Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol, as well as Hickey’s 2002 text “Buying the World,” which he later edited for inclusion in the revised edition of 

Feint of Heart: Art Writings 1982–2002, by Dave Hickey

Feint of Heart: Art Writings, 1982–2002, By Dave Hickey

1982–2002

Feint of Heart: Art Writings

An artwork by Elizabeth Peyton, titled Omai (Afterlife) after Sir Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Omai, 1776, dated 2023

Elizabeth Peyton, Portrait at the Opera (Elizabeth), 2016

Lucas Zwirner

Elizabeth Peyton’s art is one of glances and gestures that become indistinguishable from her in the moment she paints them. The works are an expression of specificity, but also of Peyton’s extraordinary ability to identify with her subjects. There is a feeling that becomes cumulative in her art, unadulterated and almost destabilizing, built up through the many brush marks that characterize her surfaces. Through the depth of these images, constructed one stroke at a time, the emotional substrate of our reality is revealed. 

—Lucas Zwirner, “The Profession of the Painter,” in 

, Peyton’s debut monograph from David Zwirner Books, explores the artist’s extraordinary ability to identify with her subject matter, from 

. These are paintings that dwell in the permeability of light and space, reveling in what Peyton calls “painting and art as a space to capture energy that can take you someplace else.”

Published on the occasion of her exhibition Angel at David Zwirner, London, in 2023, this volume includes full-color plates of eighteen new works, Peyton’s own photographs connected by “the feeling of love, faith, and nature moving through all of them,” and a text by Lucas Zwirner.

Interior spread from a book titled Elizabeth Peyton: Angel, published by David Zwirner Books in 2024.

Elizabeth Peyton: Angel

Brave, unconventional, and determined, Ruth Asawa let nothing stop her from living a life intertwined with art.



Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forced into camps. Asawa’s family had to abandon their farm, her father was incarcerated, and she and the rest of her family were sent to a detention center, and later to a concentration camp in Arkansas. Asawa nurtured her dreams of becoming an artist while imprisoned and eventually made her way to the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

This graphic biography by Sam Nakahira, developed in consultation with Ruth Asawa’s youngest daughter, Addie Lanier, chronicles the genesis of Asawa as an artist—from the horror of Pearl Harbor to her transformative education at Black Mountain College to building her life in San Francisco, where she would further develop and refine her groundbreaking wire sculptures.

Asawa never sought fame, preferring to work on her own terms: for her, art and life were one. Featuring lively illustrations and a dozen photographs of Asawa’s artwork, this graphic retelling of her young adult years demonstrates the transformative power of making art.

Ages thirteen and up.


Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape

Tom McDonough

A concise introduction to the theatrics and rituals of the art fair

This latest book on the work of Los Angeles-born, Cologne-based photographer Christopher Williams (born 1956) explores the transparent theatricality of the modern art fair, inspired by Art Cologne 1967. Williams’ black-and-white photographs lead the viewer through clinical product shots from his 

 series paired with images of past art fairs, including the photographer’s own participation in a booth hosted by David Zwirner Gallery. The result is a stoic meditation of the object as commodity and the spaces in which these goods are purchased. This publication includes a feature essay by art historian Tom McDonough, who writes of Williams’ work: “trust in the transparency of the visual field [is] consistently and thoroughly undermined. The static set promised a totalized image and simultaneously withheld it, suspending the audience in an uncomfortable awareness of the lack inscribed in the pro-visual field.”

Christopher Williams: Kölnische Dramaturgie

Clarion

Ebony L. Haynes

Pope.L

Hamza Walker

Curator’s note by Ebony L. Haynes. Conversation between Pope.L, Hamza Walker, and Ebony L. Haynes. Texts by Gordon Matta-Clark

A joining of two artists, exploring their shared fixation on the problematics of architecture, language, institutions, scale, and value

“[The exhibition is] powerful and unhinged and overbuilt—a monument to the entropy of the postindustrial city, and the tenuous dance of its inhabitants.” —

Gordon Matta-Clark and Pope.L are esteemed for their respective interdisciplinary practices that examine the value and paradoxes of urban life as well as the risk inherent in art making. Utilizing performance, film, drawing, and various multimedia projects, the two artists often open up interstitial spaces by realizing sweeping gestures that take into account shifting, decentralized zones. Grounded in the concept of failure, the sixth exhibition at 52 Walker and its accompanying catalogue reconsider societal, artistic, and structural failure—and its related expressions of hope.

With an introduction by the curator and director of 52 Walker, Ebony L. Haynes, this publication also includes a conversation between Haynes, Pope.L, and the director of LAXART, Hamza Walker, where they discuss the visual, material, and conceptual similarities between Pope.L’s and Matta-Clark’s work and what it means to treat the possibilities of failure as an artistic medium. Writings by Matta-Clark related to works in the exhibition highlight his interest in working with the void as material.

interior spread, Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures, David Zwirner Books/52 Walker, 2024

Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures, David Zwirner Books/52 Walker, 2024

Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures

Bob Thompson

Rashid Johnson

Curator’s note by Ebony L. Haynes. Texts by Gylbert Garvin Coker, Emilio Cruz, Rashid Johnson, and A. B. Spellman

A colorful, fantastical, and musical body of work by the painter Bob Thompson

“Thompson, who finally seems to be on fame’s doorstep, invents in much the same way: he makes you feel how it might have felt to see a picture of an angel for the first time.” —

Influenced by jazz, Bob Thompson painted spirited, colorful compositions that feature an interplay of bodies, allegories, and natural landscapes while reconfiguring European masterworks. Though his career as a painter spanned only a brief period, from 1958 to his untimely death at age twenty-eight, Thompson left behind a singular and influential body of figurative work that remains vitally resonant. Looking at his particular consideration of color, line, and figuration—developed during a period when abstraction was the dominant trend in American art—this intimate exhibition catalogue, the seventh volume in the 

 series, pays homage to the friction Thompson generated between his proximity to and deviation from canonical sources.

The phrase “So let us all be citizens,” taken from a speech the artist gave as a teenager, forecasted his passion for the tenets of freedom and expression, and encapsulates the power of Thompson’s work in widening the scope of what is imaginable in contemporary painting and who might engage with it. With an introduction by Ebony L. Haynes and an essay by the renowned artist Rashid Johnson, this publication expands upon Thompson’s dynamic practice and features works that spotlight his signature high-contrast palette.

interior spread, Bob Thompson: So let us all be citizens, David Zwirner Books/52 Walker, 2024

Bob Thompson: So let us all be citizens

Mara Hoberman

Oh Gwangsu

Texts by Mara Hoberman and Oh Gwangsu. Writings by Yun Hyong-keun



A contemplative exploration of the work of Yun Hyong-keun, a renowned Korean abstract painter, during a transformative period in Paris in the early 1980s



“His brushstrokes bled naturally across the linen or cotton raw canvas—appearing light brown as its fabric was not bleached—reminiscent of traditional East Asian calligraphy or ink and wash paintings.” —



From 1980 to 1982, Yun Hyong-keun resided in Paris, seeking both peace from the violent political turmoil that exploded in South Korea in 1980 and a new, artistic center in which to create work. His brief but illuminating stay in the city became the locus of his freedom of expression.

Yun’s signature abstract compositions engage and transcend Eastern and Western art movements and visual traditions, establishing him as one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. He is the most prominent figure associated with the Dansaekhwa (monochrome painting) movement, the name given to a group of influential Korean artists from the 1960s and 1970s. Using a restricted palette of ultramarine and umber, Yun created his compositions of monolithic swathes by adding layer upon layer of paint to raw canvas or linen and to hanji (Korean mulberry paper), often applying the next coat before the one below had dried.

Published on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at David Zwirner, Paris, in 2023, this limited-run cloth-bound catalogue focuses on his paintings and works on 

 made in Paris. In an accompanying text, the art historian Oh Gwangsu considers Yun’s work prior to his move to Paris, particularly the artist’s shift toward his signature works in the 1970s. The writer Mara Hoberman reflects on Yun’s practice and influences upon his arrival in the European capital, including an examination of his more nuanced understanding of the color black, which takes on different meanings in France and Korea.

Yun Hyong-keun / Paris

Featuring lush, powerful paintings by Noah Davis, this blank book—the latest in 

 series—offers the ideal forum to energize the inner artist or writer.



The late American artist Noah Davis made his mark both as a painter of ethereal figurative works and as a pillar of the Los Angeles creative scene. With Karon Davis, his wife and a fellow artist, he founded the Underground Museum in 2012, a generative cultural institution and arts space in Los Angeles. His first Artist Journal celebrates his singular approach to delicate rendering, unexpected brushwork, and subjects surrounded by potent emotional luminescence.

Each journal is beautifully crafted in Verona, Italy.

All Books