Richard Artschwager: No More Running Man

This book was published on the occasion of Richard Artschwager: No More Running Man at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, which coincided with a major touring retrospective of the artist’s work organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in collaboration with the Yale University Art Gallery. The exhibition presented Artschwager’s last series of work, variations on the motif of an isolated figure derived from a photograph—clipped from the Boston Globe—showing a man running through a park during the winter of 1989. Artschwager reimagined the image in several works beginning in 1991 and used it as the basis for this final series depicting one, two, or three monochrome silhouettes repeated or mirrored on plastic or paper. Presented in deep frames, each entry doubles as a sculpture and erases distinctions between synthetic and organic surfaces, the everyday object and the work of art.

The publication includes color reproductions of the twenty-five works in the exhibition as well as a preface by Bob Monk and an illustrated essay by Robert C. Morgan. The book design features a die-cut silhouette of the running man’s shape on the front and back covers, mimicking the mirrored laminated figures in Running Man (double blue) (2013).