Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street Paul Thek Taking Helen Frankenthaler’s 1950s New

Taking Helen Frankenthaler’s 1950s New York debut as its starting point

which suggest that their verbal subjects are in rapid motion

offering an extension of the park into the galleries

confronting the viewer with a dialogue between color and gesture

with one focusing on large multi-monitor installations from the mid-1970s onward and the other on milestones of the artist’s life

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street Paul Thek Taking Helen Frankenthaler’s 1950s NewThis poster featuring Flexible (1984) was produced in 2024, in conjunction with Jean Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, an exhibition curated by Fred Hoffman with Larry Gagosian. Flexible is one of the iconic paintings that Basquiat made in Venice, California, using slats removed from a fence around his studio courtyard. In this work, he expanded his portrayal of the Black male, presenting a larger than life figure