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Krakow Witkin Gallery has represented Julian Opie since 1999. Opie has been the subject of seven solo exhibitions at the gallery in that time and has been included in numerous group exhibitions. The gallery has collaborated with the artist in numerous public and private commissions, as well as a variety of museum exhibitions.
In alignment with the artist’s inclusive creative approach, Krakow Witkin Gallery presents both unique and editioned works by Julian Opie and currently has available LED and LCD film works, along with various sculptures, paintings, and works executed using innovative and unconventional artistic processes, both unique and editioned.
47 9/16 x 23 1/4 inches (121 x 59 cm)
Signed verso
(Inventory #35639)
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)
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)
79 7/8 x 83 1/8 inches (203 x 211 cm)
(Inventory #39142)
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)
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 #37032)
77 1/8 x 33 x 2 inches (196 x 84 x 5 cm)
Signed verso on label
(Inventory #35599)
76 3/4 x 57 7/8 x 2 1/2 inches (195 x 147 x 6.5 cm)
Signed and dated verso on label
(Inventory #40300)
74 x 42 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches (188 x 107 x 4.5 cm)
Signed and dated verso on label
(Inventory #40522)
18 7/8 x 14 15/16 x 1 3/16 inches (48 x 38 x 3 cm)
(Inventory #40036)
78 3/4 x 38 x 1 3/8 inches (200 x 96.5 x 3.5 cm)
(Inventory #40034)
Signed ‘Julian Opie’ on reverse
39 1/4 x 32 1/8 inches
(99.8 x 81.5 cm)
(Inventory #25870)
50 3/8 x 29 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (128 x 75 x 7.3 cm)
Signed verso on label
Edition of 4
(Inventory #40143)
50 3/8 x 29 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (128 x 75 x 7.3 cm)
Signed verso on label
Edition of 4
(Inventory #40146)
12 5/8 x 4 1/8 x 2 inches (32 x 12 x 5 cm)
Signed on bottom of sculpture
(Inventory #35069)
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)
59 x 59 x 3 1/2 inches (150 x 150 x 9 cm)
Signed verso in black ink on label
(Inventory #36479)
Signed and numbered on verso
Edition of 60, 10 AP
(Inventory #40030)
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)
Edition of 20
14 1/2 x 20 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches (36.6 x 52.6 x 4 cm)
Signed and numbered on reverse on affixed label
(Inventory #32452)
51 1/4 x 51 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (130 x 130 x 4 cm)
Signed verso on label
(Inventory #40137)
51 3/16 x 51 3/16 x 1 9/16 inches (130 x 130 x 4 cm)
Signed verso on label
(Inventory #40141)
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)
51 1/8 x 51 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (130 x 130 x 4 cm)
Signed verso on label
(Inventory #40139)
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches (70 x 70 x 3.5 cm)
Signed on reverse
(Inventory #34360)
50 3/8 x 29 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (128 x 75 x 7.3 cm)
Signed and numbered on label on verso
Edition of 4
(Inventory #40401)
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)
94 1/2 x 47 1/4 x 12 inches (240 x 120 x 30 cm)
Signed
(Inventory #33368)
20 7/8 x 26 3/8 inches (53 x 67 cm)
Signed verso on label
(Inventory #40136)
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)
Dimensions variable
This installation size: 89 1/2 x 168 1/2 inches (227.3 x 428 cm)
Signed on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #30069)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Julian Opie, on view, April 20 – June 1, 2024
Julian Opie, on view, April 20 – June 1, 2024
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.
