Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees Alexander Nemerov who in his 1959 “Lecture

who in his 1959 “Lecture on Nothing” famously declared

The contrast between these pristine forms and the debased domestic material below articulates a schism between public and private

the cookbook includes drawings by Hope Atherton

and spray-painted Formica bases

If you look at it from the front

Albert Oehlen: Elevator Paintings: Trees Alexander Nemerov who in his 1959 “LectureThis 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