A painting of a person with blonde hair and blue clothing, obscured by bold black and pink brushstrokes across the face and chest.

Julian Schnabel

Don’t Let It Bring You Down, It’s Only Castles Burning (For Neil Young) I

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Julian Schnabel releases a new trio of limited edition silkscreen prints drawn from his celebrated Big Girl Paintings.

As with all the works in this series, Don’t Let It Bring You Down, It’s Only Castles Burning (For Neil Young) I is an enigmatic portrait characterised by the striking absence of eyes. By removing the subject’s gaze, the artist shifts the viewer’s attention away from expression and towards the composition itself. Originally created on a monumental scale of between seven and thirteen feet, Schnabel has revisited this figure several times over the past few decades. Widely exhibited, with features in the Gagosian Gallery and the Brant Foundation, the Big Girl Paintings are among Schnabel’s most recognised bodies of work.

A 24-layer limited edition silkscreen, this piece is one of three interconnected works in our latest collaboration with the artist – and marks the first ever translation of the Big Girl Paintings into prints on paper.

julian schnabel wearing white overalls, holding a can of white paint and a brush

Julian Schnabel4 collaborationsJulian Schnabel’s far-reaching practice spans painting, sculpture and film. Use of material throughout is expansive and mutable. Wood, velvet, linoleum, army tarpaulins and animal hides all act as sculptural surfaces – layered with mediums such as wax, car bondo and resin. Similarly, recovered postcards, old x-rays and found images become grounds for new paintings. The artist’s Plate Paintings began in the 1970s and continue today. To create them he breaks plates. Reassembles them. Then paints over the top. They arrive as portraits and landscapes – sometimes abstract, often allegorical. Self Portraits of Others (2021) at New York’s Brant Foundation examined the theme of portraiture throughout history with 25 new Plate Paintings based on emblematic works by the likes of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Vincent van Gogh and Frida Kahlo.

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