Through her photographs inside Twombly's studio Sally Mann captures his artistic life without his actual presence.

This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 4-May 28, 2018; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, June 30-September, 23, 2018; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 20, 2018-February 10, 2019; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3-May 27, 2019; Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 17-September 22, 2019; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 19, 2019-January 12, 2020.

Matthew Marks is pleased to announce his next exhibition will be Cy Twombly Photographs. The exhibition will consist of twenty-nine color photographs. This is the first time Twombly has exhibited work in this medium.Cy Twombly began experimenting with color photography in the early 1980s. About four years ago he started working with the master printers Michel and Jean-Francois Fresson at the Atelier Fresson in Savigny sur Orge, France. The Fresson technique is a unique photographic printing process carried on exclusively by the Fresson family since 1990. The photographs which result have an unusually rich surface and extraordinary, saturated colors over which the artist is able to maintain exceptional control. Fresson prints are the most permanent photographic color images made today.The subject matter of Twombly's photographs are flowers, trees and ancient Roman sculptures. The majority of the works in the exhibition have been put together by the artist into groups of five or six images. Theirs is similar to the way Twombly has presented his paintings and drawings in the past. While not as abstract as his work in other media, the photographs Twombly will show are close in feeling to his larger scale work and are important to an understanding of his subject matter and working methods.The last exhibition in New York consisting of entirely new work by Cy Twombly was held in 1982. -- Press Release (see link).

Mann's photographs of her husband, Larry, who has late-onset muscular dystrophy.

For the first time in nearly 30 years, new paintings by Cy Twombley were exhibited at a New York gallery. This book documents the recent show at Gagosian Gallery, and includes color plates of all paintings in a beautiful multipanel gatefold.

Published on occasion of the exhibition "Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes," held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, 12 October - 30 December 2012; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1 March - 16 June 2013; Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, 12 July - 13 October 2013.