Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York

"Qualities that I want to see brought together: delicacy and coarseness, color and vagueness, and, underlying them all, a base note of hysteria." —Albert Oehlen This video shows the installation of "Elevator Paintings: Trees", an exhibition of work by Albert Oehlen. The exhibition presents two groups of works, both being shown in New York for the first time: the "Tree Paintings" ("Baumbilder"), which are permutations of an ongoing series that Oehlen began more than thirty years ago, and the "Elevator Paintings", which are allover, polychromatic oil paintings in which Oehlen stages oppositions between clear contours and amorphous blurs: http://on.gagosian.com/laDN1o6 __________ Installation video, "Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees," February 28–April 15, 2016, Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Artworks © Albert Oehlen. Video by Granny Cart Productions. If you would like to use this video, please contact newyork@gagosian.com