Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees Rug two photographers whose works are

two photographers whose works are in the archive

Alex Eagleton

from 1981 through 1986

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

a longtime friend of De Maria’s

Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees Rug two photographers whose works areThis 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