Alfred Mac Adam reviews Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings, 1978–2025 for The Brooklyn Rail.
Mac Adam writes, "Julian Schnabel began making plate works, composed of broken dishware fragments, painted and affixed to wood panels, in 1978 and continues to make them in 2025, just a single facet of his production. He is wildly diverse, so he may paint a traditional landscape on a domestic scale or a huge, multi-part abstraction the size of a public mural, but he always remains constant in deploying certain tensions: abstraction versus figuration, narration versus stasis, passion versus control, autobiography versus anonymity. All these factors appear in the nineteen works on view at Mnuchin."