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Julian Opie

SELECTED WORKS
Dance 4 synced 2.
2022
Vinyl on aluminum stretcher, unique

90 9/16 x 150 inches (230 x 381 cm)
Signed and dated verso on label
(Inventory #38286)

Dance Synced 3.
2024
Silkscreen in twelve colors on Archival Museum board paper

Image size: 33 x 53 inches (83.8 x 134.6 cm)
Paper size: 37 5/8 x 59 1/2 inches (95.6 x 151.1 cm)
Edition of 45, 5 AP
Signed and numbered in graphite, verso
(Inventory #37034)

Scarf coat handbag long hair two shopping bags blonde bob puffer jacket hooded coat leather bag.
2022
Direct to media print on acrylic, unique

26 3/4 x 26 5/8 x 1/2 inches (67.9 x 67.6 x 1.3 cm)
Signed verso in black ink on label
(Inventory #36455)

Blue phone.
2023
Auto paint on wood

85 x 35 3/8 x 1 3/4 inches (215.9 x 89.8 x 4.5 cm)
Signed and dated verso on label
(Inventory #38289)

Knokke 1.
2024
Painted wooden beads, unique

49 1/4 x 49 5/8 inches (125 x 126 cm)
Signed verso in black ink on label
(Inventory #37166)

Winter head 15.
2021
Auto paint on aluminum, gloss background, unique

31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (80 x 80 x 4 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #33359)

Shaida walking 2.
2016
Continuous computer animation on 55" LCD screen

Edition of 4
50 3/8 x 29 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (128 x 75 x 7.3 cm)
Signed and numbered on reverse
(Inventory #28265)

Verity walking in dress (3)
2011
Continuous computer animation on a 55" LCD screen

Edition of 4
50 3/8 x 29 1/2 x 3 inches (128 x 75 x 7.3 cm)
Signed and numbered on reverse
(Inventory #27708)

Old Street couple 1.
2023
Continuous computer animation on LED screen

39 3/8 x 19 5/8 inches (100 x 50 cm)
Edition of 4
Signed and numbered on reverse
(Inventory #35075)

Ann, dancing. 1.
2007
Continuous computer animation on LED screen, unique

77 1/8 x 33 x 2 inches (196 x 84 x 5 cm)
Signed verso on label
(Inventory #35599)

Day 1.
2021
Printed nylon in aluminum LED-lit lightbox, unique

59 x 59 x 3 1/2 inches (150 x 150 x 9 cm)
Signed verso in black ink on label
(Inventory #36479)

Yasmin Julian Jada Teresa.
2022
Overlaid acrylic panel

35 1/2 x 36 5/8 inches  (90 x 93 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #34033)

Old Street December 10.
2020
Auto paint on aluminum, unique

72 1/4 x 47 x 1 1/2 inches (183.5 x 119.5 x 4 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #31860)

Lily, eyes straight, head right, smile
2013
Inkjet on paper on aluminum

39 3/8 x 25 5/8 inches  (100.2 x 65.2 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #27546)

Freddie
2010
Inkjet on paper on aluminum

Signed ‘Julian Opie’ on reverse
39 1/4 x 32 1/8 inches

(99.8 x 81.5 cm)
(Inventory #25870)

Ian. 1.
2006
Inkjet on paper on aluminum panel, unique

43 3/8 x 20 7/8 inches (110 x 53 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #31401)

Trilby.
2018
Unique silkscreen on painted wooden board

40 1/2 x 22 7/8 x 1 inches (103 x 58 x 3 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #30184)

Damon t-shirt jeans hands in front.
2001
Paint and vinyl on wood, unique in color

12 5/8 x 4 1/8 x 2 inches (32 x 12 x 5 cm)
Signed on bottom of sculpture
(Inventory #35069)

Maple forest. 1.
2014
Overlaid acrylic panel

27 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches (70 x 70 x 3.5 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #33430)

Pebbles. 2.
2014
Cut acrylic overlaid on acrylic panel, unique

27 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches (70 x 70 x 3.5 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #34360)

Small birds: Black headed gull.
2020
Cut acrylic inlaid and overlaid on acrylic panel

Edition of 20
12 1/8 x 16 x 1 1/2 inches (30.7 x 40.6 x 4 cm)
Signed and numbered on reverse on affixed label
(Inventory #32450)

Dance 3 figure 3 step 2.
2022
Unique mosaic with stone tile

47 9/16 x 23 1/4 inches (121 x 59 cm)
Signed verso
(Inventory #35639)

Dance Figure 1-4.
2023
Lenticular acrylic panel, mounted onto white acrylic in four parts

Each: 66 7/8 x 36 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches (169.9 x 92.4 x 4.1 cm)
Edition of 55
Signed and numbered verso on label
(Inventory #37270)

Dance 5 figure 3.
2022
Continuous computer animation on LED screen with sound

39 3/8 x 19 5/8 x 3 inches (100 x 50 x 8 cm)
Edition of 4
Signed and numbered on reverse
(Inventory #35064)

Belgium. 2.
2021
Four freestanding acrylic sculptures on a wall mounted Corian shelf

Overall size: 26 3/4 x 23 1/2 x 4 inches (67.9 x 59.7 x 10.2 cm)
Shelf size: 5 3/4 x 23 1/2 x 4 inches (10.2 x 59.7 x 14.6 cm)
Figures dimensions variable
Edition of 30
Signed, dated, and numbered on reverse on black standing figure
(Inventory #33530)

Day
Screenprint on a freestanding acrylic block

15 5/8 x 10 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (39.7 x 26 x 16.2 cm)
Edition of 35
Signed and numbered on base
(Inventory #32995)

Suzanne walking in red skirt 2
2010
Enamel on glass with steel base

Life size:  94 1/2 x 33 inches  (240 x 83 cm)
Base:  9 x 40 x 19 inches  (23.3 x 100 x 49 cm)
(Inventory #21845)

Ponytail.
2020
Auto paint on aluminum with corian base, unique

70 1/4 x 28 1/2 x 1 inches (178.4 x 72.6 x 3 cm)
Plinth: 21 5/8 x 21 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches (55 x 55 x 40 cm)
Signed
(Inventory #32157)

Margaux.
2023
Wood

63 1/2 x 25 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches (161.3 x 64.3 x 35 cm)
Signed on bottom
(Inventory #35357)

Bomber jacket paper bag.
2022
Auto paint on aluminum, unique

47 5/8 x 22 7/8 inches (121 x 58 cm)
Signed verso in black ink on label
(Inventory #36481)

Handbag.
2018
Patinated bronze with stone base

Sculpture (height): 78 3/4 x 1 inches (200 x 2.5 cm)
Base: 22 9/16 x 17 x 2 3/4 inches (58 x 43 x 7 cm)
Engraved signature on the underside
(Inventory #36066)

Coffee.
2021
Continuous computer animation on double sided LED monolith

94 1/2 x 47 1/4 x 12 inches (240 x 120 x 30 cm)
Signed
(Inventory #33368)

Beach walkers.
2018
One work in 24 parts, anodized aluminum, unique

Installation dimensions are variable
This image of the work is on a wall 175 x 325 inches (450 x 825 cm)
Each figure is approximately 53 x 28 inches (135 x 72 cm)
Signed
(Inventory #31862)

The sea. 4.
2018
Paint on wall

Dimensions variable
This installation size:  89 1/2 x 168 1/2 inches  (227.3 x 428 cm)
Signed on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #30069)

Beach terns.
2018
Continuous computer animation on 46" LCD screen

23 x 40 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches (58.5 x 102.7 x 11.5 cm)
Edition of 4
Signed and numbered on label on reverse
(Inventory #31599)

Coast. 2.
2016
Continuous computer animation with sound on 46" LCD screen with inkjet

40 3/4 x 77 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (103.6 x 197 x 11 cm)
Signed on label on reverse
(Inventory #30063)

3 stone sheep 2
2018
Engraved stone

Overall dimensions variable
Black Sheep (walking): 43 3/4 x 68 1/2 x 17 3/8 inches (111 x 174 x 44 cm)
White Sheep (standing): 47 5/8 x 58 x 17 3/8 inches (121 x 147 x 44 cm)
Black Sheep (grazing): 41 3/4 x 63 x 17 3/8 inches (106 x 160 x 44 cm)
Signed
(Inventory #34113)

Julian Opie, on view, April 20 – June 1, 2024

Julian Opie, on view, April 20 – June 1, 2024

Additional Information

Julian Opie (b. 1958) lives and works in London. Between 1979 and 1982 he studied at the Goldsmith’s School of Art in London.

“Everything you see is trick of the light.  Light bouncing into your eye, light casting shadows, creating depth, shapes, colours.  Remove the light and it’s all gone.  We use vision as a means of survival and it’s essential to take it for granted in order to function, but awareness allows us to look at looking and by extension look at ourselves and be aware of our presence.  Drawing, drawing out the way that process feels and works brings the awareness into the present and into the real world, the exterior world.  By drawing I have made a thing, lots of things which are nothing really, useless, but I can show them and look at them and get other people to look at them and see if it can do the same for them.  Artworks are like little experiments designed to bring out, mimic, reveal what is already there but hard to hold.  There are standard ways of doing this but blundering around trying to invent new versions makes it fresh and relevant.  I set up projects, experiments, based on previous successes that I feel could be better or go further.  Some observation or variation suggests to me that I could make a new work.  I vaguely sense a possibility and need to build a model to test it out.  I gather resources and in the process of building I rely on trial and error and instinct to squeeze success out of the elements.  Things often don’t go to plan and I’m forced to side step or back down in order to get it to work.  It’s nearly always an “only just” situation, a last second hop from failure to success and even then I have my doubts but if I enjoy the work and want to show it to people I feel it’s probably good to go.

—Julian Opie, 2015 (excerpt from “Julian Opie: The Complete Editions Volume 2: 2012-2015”, Alan Cristea Gallery, 2015)

Julian Opie makes paintings, sculptures, films and installations in public spaces. In his works, he employs electronic media to widen the boundaries of the traditional media such as oil painting or sculpture. The person has a key place in his art, and is often represented in movement. He portrays members of his family, friends and workers at his studio as well as anonymous passers-by and commissioning collectors. He usually draws his characters by using a black line filled with a strong, clear colour echoing the language of signs and symbols. He is interested in landscapes; he strips them of detail, bringing to the fore their essence. He has been inspired by a variety of phenomena: from the aesthetics of road signs, billboards and corporate logos, through Japanese prints to old master portraits, ancient Roman Greek and Egyptian sculpture to manga and comics.

Opie not only focuses on museum and gallery exhibitions, he also uses other opportunities and spaces to create and exhibit art. He is well known for his album covers including the album of the British group Blur Blur: The Best of (2000). He has worked on numerous stage sets and public works in cities around the world.

Julian Opie is one of the most well known contemporary British artists. His works can be found in the collections of many public institutions throughout the world, including Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum in London, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, the Kunsthaus Zürich in Switzerland, the Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig in Aachen, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the National Museum of Art in Osaka, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and also in the MOCAK Collection, and Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow.