Jasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed

This book was published on the occasion of Jasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, presented in partnership with Castelli Gallery. The exhibition surveyed the crosshatch paintings that Johns produced from 1973 through 1983 and their reverberations across his subsequent work. Titled after a major group of paintings within the series, Between the Clock and the Bed commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the debut of the crosshatch paintings at Castelli Gallery in 1976 and bookended Gagosian’s occupancy of its flagship gallery at 980 Madison Avenue, which opened in 1989 with an exhibition by Johns.

The catalogue features color plates of the thirty-two exhibited works—with four of the largest paintings reproduced on gatefolds—as well as installation views of both the Gagosian (2026) and Castelli (1976) exhibitions. It includes an introduction by Larry Gagosian; Roberta Smith’s essay “Jasper Johns Begins Again,” an in-depth consideration of this body of work; “Movement as Seeing,” Barbara Bertozzi Castelli’s text on the illustrated book Foirades/Fizzles (1976), a collaboration between Johns and Samuel Beckett; “10 Hatch Marks,” Carlos Basualdo’s reflections on the series; and, surveying critical response at the time, facsimiles of four reviews of the 1976 Castelli exhibition.