Gagosian Gallery, in collaboration with Castelli Gallery, will present a landmark survey of Jasper Johns's crosshatched paintings at its 980 Madison Avenue flagship from January 22 to March 14, 2026. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the series' debut in 1976 and includes rarely seen works from 1973 to 1983, lent by major museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Broad, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well as from Johns's personal collection. Key works include pieces from the "Corpse and Mirror" series, "Weeping Women" (1975), "Dancers on a Plane" (1980–81), and all six "Between the Clock and the Bed" paintings (1981–83).
This survey matters because it reexamines a pivotal yet often enigmatic phase in Johns's career, demonstrating how his shift to abstract crosshatching expanded the boundaries of postwar American painting. The exhibition also connects to Gagosian's history—the gallery opened its Madison Avenue space in 1989 with a show of Johns's "Map" paintings—and underscores the enduring market and scholarly interest in Johns's work, especially as it coincides with a major retrospective co-curated by Carlos Basualdo at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in 2021–22.