Louise Bonnet Reflects on the Dead in '30 Ghosts'

Louise Bonnet's latest exhibition, 30 Ghosts, is a reflection on the lives that have come before us. Opening at Gagosian this November, the works on view were notably inspired by the opening lines in Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): "Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."Based in Los Angeles, Bonnet is well-known for painting exaggerated bodily forms that explore themes related to melancholy, no...