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30-440: Gagosian is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Larry Gagosian (born 1945), American art dealer Robert Gagosian (born 1944), American oceanographer [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Gagosian . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding

60-728: A BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts , Valencia, California , where he studied with John Baldessari . Salle’s work first came to public attention in New York City in the early 1980s. David Salle was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents on September 28, 1952, in Norman, Oklahoma , but grew up in Wichita, Kansas . He developed an interest in art at a very young age, spending his childhood and teenage years in art classes provided by

90-710: A Caravaggio painting. Salle has worked with different media and processes. Many of his works consist of juxtaposed images, where he takes abstraction and the human figure. He manipulates images by combining a variety of different styles, recognizable imagery, and textures. Exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy),

120-643: A local art organization. At an early age he began taking life-drawing classes at the Wichita Art Association. During high school, he attended outside art classes three days a week. After graduating from high school, Salle attended the California Institute of the Arts . There he trained and studied under John Baldessari , whom he credits for showing him a path to his artistry. Salle earned his BFA in three years, then received his MFA in two. After graduating, Salle relocated to New York City , where he worked for Vito Acconci . During this time, he established

150-575: A loft in New York on West Broadway opposite the Leo Castelli Gallery . It was Castelli who introduced Gagosian to Charles Saatchi and Samuel Newhouse Jr . In his first New York appearance, in 1979, he presented David Salle 's first exhibition in a loft at 421 West Broadway, in collaboration with dealer Annina Nosei . In 1982, Nosei and Gagosian staged an exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat in Los Angeles. Around that time, Basquiat worked from

180-460: A narrative, they do not lack meaning or relation. He has said that his choices of image are far from random, and that the pieces he chooses are cross-referenced with one another in complex ways. He believes this to be his form of originality in pieces that he appropriates. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21, Salle has painted a series of works called Tree of Life which reference Adam and Eve ,

210-542: A random assortment of images layered onto one another, critics were difficult to convince. Some common critiques are that his paintings are incoherent and the images he chooses arbitrary and unrelated to one another. The art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto wrote that Salle's paintings convey a "sense of purposiveness with no specific purpose." Critic Robert Storr was fascinated by the work's "graphic double-exposure" and "kaleidoscopic effect," as well as its infinite meanings and interpretations. Another point of contention

240-544: A record store, a bookstore, a supermarket, and in an entry-level job as Michael Ovitz ’s secretary at the William Morris Agency , but got his start in the art business by selling posters near the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles. He closed his poster shop around 1976, when a former restaurant facility became available in the same complex on Westwood 's Broxton Avenue, and upgraded to prints by artists like Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander . His gallery Prints on Broxton

270-474: A stable of super collectors including David Geffen , Newhouse, Saatchi, and David Ganek. Bidding on behalf of Newhouse in 1988, Gagosian paid over $ 17 million for False Start (1959) by Jasper Johns , a then-record price for a work by a living artist. That record was beaten in 2008, when Gagosian paid $ 23.5 million at Sotheby's in November 2007 for Jeff Koons 's Hanging Heart (an artist who happens to belong to

300-925: A working partnership with Mary Boone . Around the same time, Salle was hired by the American Ballet Theatre to design set and costumes for dancer and choreographer Karole Armitage . In 1995, Salle made his Hollywood directorial debut with Search and Destroy , starring Christopher Walken and Griffin Dunne and produced by Martin Scorsese . The film met with very negative reactions. Salle's paintings and prints consist of what appear to be randomly juxtaposed and multilayered images, or images placed on top of one other with deliberately illogical techniques, in which he combines original and appropriated imagery. Imagery he uses includes items from popular culture, such as Donald Duck, and pieces from art history, such as parts from

330-399: Is more interested in talking about nuts and bolts, about what makes contemporary paintings tick. Salle's writing is much like his artistic style, witty and intriguing. He believes the jargon associated with art history can and should be simplified so that those who are interested but lack fine art schooling can still learn about and appreciate art. Though Salle insists that his works are not

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360-519: Is owned by Gagosian and Masa Takayama . The lawsuit alleges that Kappo Masa employees are owed tip money for their services and that the restaurant “underpaid its employees by 12 percent.” David Salle David Salle (born September 28, 1952; last name pronounced "Sally") is an American Postmodern painter, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer. Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma , and lives and works in East Hampton, New York . He earned

390-549: The British magazine ArtReview placed Gagosian fourth in their annual poll of "most powerful person in the art world". Artist Robert Longo included in his ‘Men in the Cities’ photographic series. In 2022, The Financial Times named Gagosian the most important art dealer in the world. Gagosian was briefly engaged to the dancer Catherine Kerr. Since 2021, he has been in a relationship with artist Anna Weyant. In 1988, Gagosian bought

420-532: The Garden of Eden , and The New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno (1904-1968). The canvases alternate between a black and white and polychrome palette. Salle has also done set and costume design and directed films. In 1986 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Theater Design, and directed the feature film Search and Destroy . He is a longtime collaborator with the choreographer Karole Armitage , designing sets and costumes for her ballets. Salle has explored

450-870: The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao , and the Kestnergesellschaft Museum in Hannover, Germany. Salle's work was also featured in The Pictures Generation , an exhibition curated by Douglas Eklund at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His work was shown among a number of other contemporary artists including Richard Prince , Sherrie Levine , Cindy Sherman , Nancy Dwyer , Robert Longo , Thomas Lawson , Charles Clough , and Michael Zwack . Salle's process typically starts with photographs he takes for reference, such as hired models. This

480-618: The Gagosian gallery's stable). On 10 May 2022, Gagosian bought one of the four Shot Marilyns paintings by Andy Warhol , for a record breaking $ 195 million, making it the most expensive piece of 20th century art to change hands in a public sale. On 2 July 2024, Gagosian announced that he would auction the most valuable artwork in history titled ART4+ created by Daryush Shokof , and designed by Jeff Koons at historic start price of 11 Billion USD in September 9, 2024. [1] , [2] , [3] In 2011,

510-671: The Toad Hall estate in Amagansett, New York , with an 11,000-square-foot house designed by architect Charles Gwathmey for fellow architect François de Menil in 1983, for $ 8 million. In 2009, he had Christian Liaigre design a home for him in Flamands Beach on St. Barths . In 2010, internet pioneer David Bohnett sold his 5,700 square foot Holmby Hills compound, originally designed by A. Quincy Jones for Gary Cooper , to Gagosian for $ 15.5 million, according to public records. Gagosian bought

540-526: The elder sibling and only son to Armenian parents. His mother, Ann Louise, had a career in acting and singing, and his father, Ara, was an accountant and later a stockbroker. His grandparents (original last name Ghoughasian) immigrated from Armenia ; he and his parents were born in California. Between 1963 and 1969, he pursued a major in English literature at UCLA and graduated in 1969. He worked briefly in

570-472: The former Harkness Mansion , an enormous townhouse at 4 East 75th Street in Manhattan , for $ 36.5 million in 2011. In 1969, Gagosian pleaded guilty to two felony charges of forgery, stemming from his use of someone else’s credit card. He received a suspended sentence and probation. In 2003, Gagosian paid $ 4 million settlement after federal prosecutors accused him and three partners of failing to pay taxes on

600-505: The ground-floor display and studio space Gagosian had built below his Venice home on Market Street. In the early 1980s, Gagosian developed his business rapidly by exploiting the possibilities of reselling works of art by blue-chip modern and contemporary artists, earning the nickname "Go-Go" in the process. After establishing a Manhattan gallery in the mid-1980s, located at the ground-floor space in artist Sandro Chia ’s studio building at 521 West 23rd Street , Gagosian began to work with

630-573: The images, though sexually explicit, are not "particularly erotic" because they are faded and blurred, distancing them from reality. Salle's work is in the permanent collections of numerous art museums, including the Museum of Modern Art , New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ; Walker Art Center , Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art , New York; Tate Modern , London; and

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660-490: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gagosian&oldid=1248367825 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description with empty Wikidata description All set index articles Monitored short pages Larry Gagosian Gagosian was born April 19, 1945, in Los Angeles , California ,

690-555: The potential of AI superseding him someday, Salle acknowledged the large role that AI may play in the future of art. Salle is also a prolific writer on art. His essays and reviews have appeared in Artforum , Art in America , Modern Painters , The Paris Review , Interview , and numerous exhibition catalogs and anthologies. He was a regular contributor to Town & Country magazine. His collection of critical essays, How to See ,

720-425: The real world and placed them in the world and context of painting. According to Salle, his intention was to eliminate any narrative from his work, though one might attempt to decipher a story from the imagery. His decision-making process begins with one image he is attracted to, to which he continues to add pieces from specific images he acquired until the painting feels complete. Though Salle's works do not contain

750-459: The sale of 58 works of art. In 2012, suits and counter-suits were filed by Gagosian and Ronald Perelman against one another concerning an unfinished work by Jeff Koons and 10 others worth up to $ 45 million. In 2012, Gagosian was sued for $ 14 million in a suit involving the sale of an edition of Girl in Mirror . In September 2023, a class action lawsuit was filed against Kappo Masa , which

780-439: The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his art. In 2023, he collaborated with computer scientists to create a program capable of generating images reflective of his style. The program was trained on a dataset composed of Salle’s paintings and refined based on his input. Salle has described the generative AI as useful because he can conceptualize variations of artwork when brainstorming ideas for new paintings. When asked about

810-452: Was Salle's use of pornographic images of women, which some critics found a form of voyeurism or downright provocation, particularly to the feminist movement. Mira Schor , a feminist artist and writer, wrote that his portrayals of women seem "to be a continuation of a male conversation which is centuries old, to which women are irrelevant except as depersonalized projections of man's fears and fantasies." Salle, as well as many critics, says that

840-403: Was both groundbreaking and controversial at the time, primarily because the combination of these two art forms was not common practice. During this period, painters and photographers were often debating which form had more merit, or whether they had merit at all. Though his collection of photographs is considered art itself, Salle has said he would paint his final images because it took images from

870-457: Was published by W. W. Norton in 2016. Salle worked closely with fellow contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons , Roy Lichtenstein , and John Baldessari in creating this collection. According to Dwight Garner : Mr. Salle’s mission in How to See is to seize art back from the sort of critics who treat each painting “as a position paper, with the artist cast as a kind of philosopher manqué.” Mr. Salle

900-977: Was renamed the Broxton Gallery when he began to show a wider array of contemporary art. The gallery worked with up-and-coming artists such as Vija Celmins , Alexis Smith , and Elyn Zimmerman , and staged exhibitions such as "Broxton Sequences: Sequential Imagery in Photography", which included the work of John Baldessari and Bruce Nauman . Television executive Barry Lowen introduced Gagosian to Douglas S. Cramer , who introduced him to his ex-wife, Joyce Haber , who sold him her California art, which he promptly and profitably resold. In 1978, he opened his first gallery, on La Brea Avenue in West Hollywood , and began showing young Californians ( Vija Celmins , Chris Burden ) and new New Yorkers ( Eric Fischl , Cindy Sherman , Jean-Michel Basquiat ). That same year, he bought

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