Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce its new publication "John Currin,” produced as an accompaniment to the exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in 2010 and featuring works created over the past four years. Currin’s depictions of the female figure enchant and repel, often in equal measure. Labeled as mannerist, caricaturist, radical conservative or satirist, Currin continues to confound expectations and evade categorization. With his uncanny ability to locate the point at which the beautiful and the grotesque are held in perfect ... Read more

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce its new publication "John Currin,” produced as an accompaniment to the exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in 2010 and featuring works created over the past four years. Currin’s depictions of the female figure enchant and repel, often in equal measure. Labeled as mannerist, caricaturist, radical conservative or satirist, Currin continues to confound expectations and evade categorization. With his uncanny ability to locate the point at which the beautiful and the grotesque are held in perfect balance, he continues to produce subversive portraits of idiosyncratic women in conventional settings. The latest additions to his cast include the demure Constance Towers and the extravagant Mademoiselle as well as scenes of bourgeois erotic abandon, such as The Women of Franklin Street.

The catalogue features an interview with John Currin and the artist Angus Cook, and short fiction essays by Wells Towers.

John Currin was born in 1962 in Boulder, CO. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from Yale University. Currin now lives and works in New York.

John Currin’s work draws upon a broad range of cultural influences that include Renaissance oil paintings, 1950s women’s magazine advertisements, and contemporary politics. Major institutional exhibitions include “John Currin: Works on Paper,” the Des Moines Art Center (2003) (traveled to the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado); “John Currin,” the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2003) (traveled to the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, through 2004). His work is represented in major institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Tate Collection, London; and Centre Pompidou, Paris.

John Currin lives and works in New York.