Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings 1978–2025

“Though the definition of painting and its limits had already been in disrepair for decades by the time of Schnabel’s intervention, the Plate Paintings inaugurated a new era in an otherwise staid tradition that condemned some other artists to a lifetime of applying pigment on canvas.” — Aram Moshayedi

With vivid artwork and installation imagery, this publication collects a selection of Plate Paintings created by Julian Schnabel between 1978 and 2025, presented in 2025 at Mnuchin Gallery in New York. Along with a biography, the book includes a text by writer and curator Aram Moshayedi on Schnabel’s storied series.