Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees Rug and vegetation—into flat color and

and vegetation—into flat color and line

we are seeing how it starts

a longtime friend of De Maria’s

an exhibition of new paintings by the artist at Gagosian

formally and conceptually reimagining established aesthetics and techniques by repurposing multiple woodblocks already carved for earlier ukiyo-e prints

Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees Rug and vegetation—into flat color andThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. It brings together two groups of works: the Tree Paintings, permutations of an ongoing series that Oehlen began more than thirty years ago, which in this iteration are distinguished by a palette limited to predominantly black and red, and the Elevator Paintings, allover polychromatic compositions in which the