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Book Whitney Biennial 2019

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  • Author : Jane Panetta
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300242751
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Whitney Biennial 2019 written by Jane Panetta and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing the work of an exciting group of contemporary artists, this book reflects the trends shaping art in the United States today.

Book Whitney Biennial 2022

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  • Author : David Breslin
  • Publisher : Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Release : 2022-04-26
  • ISBN : 9780300263893
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Whitney Biennial 2022 written by David Breslin and published by Whitney Museum of American Art. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the latest iteration of this crucial exhibition, always a barometer of contemporary American art The 2022 Whitney Biennial is accompanied by this landmark volume. Each of the Biennial's participants is represented by a selected exhibition history, a bibliography, and imagery complemented by a personal statement or interview that foregrounds the artist's own voice. Essays by the curators and other contributors elucidate themes of the exhibition and discuss the participants. The 2022 Biennial's two curators, David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, are known for their close collaboration with living artists. Coming after several years of seismic upheaval in and beyond the cultural, social, and political landscapes, this catalogue will offer a new take on the storied institution of the Biennial while continuing to serve--as previous editions have--as an invaluable resource on present-day trends in contemporary art in the United States.

Book Jasper Johns

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  • Author : Carlos Basualdo
  • Publisher : Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9780300254259
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Jasper Johns written by Carlos Basualdo and published by Whitney Museum of American Art. This book was released on 2021 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This lavishly illustrated retrospective of Jasper Johns's work offers a new perspective on the artist's work based on his own enduring fascination with mirroring and doubles"--

Book Rachel Harrison Life Hack

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  • Author : Elisabeth Sussman
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300246854
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Rachel Harrison Life Hack written by Elisabeth Sussman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important, owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of recycled genres, styles, and ideas."--Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker In her sculptures, room-sized installations, drawings, photographs, and artist's books, Rachel Harrison (b. 1966) delves into themes of celebrity culture, pop psychology, history, and politics. This publication, created in close collaboration with the artist, explores twenty-five years of her practice and is the first comprehensive monograph on Harrison in nearly a decade. Its centerpiece is an in-depth plate section, which doubles as a chronology of Harrison's major works, series, and exhibitions. Objects are illustrated with multiple views and details, and accompanied by short texts. This thorough approach elucidates Harrison's complicated, eclectic oeuvre--in which she integrates found materials with handmade sculptural elements, upends traditions of museum display, and injects quotidian objects with a sense of strangeness. Six accompanying essays cover Harrison's earliest works to her most recent output. The book also includes a handful of photo-collages that the artist created specifically for this project. Published here for the first time, these pieces superimpose found images with reproductions of Harrison's own past work.

Book Jennifer Packer

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
  • Release : 2021-06
  • ISBN : 9783960989035
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Jennifer Packer written by and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Friendship, loss and the everyday populate Packer's canvases, full of disquieting detail." -Adrian Searle, The Guardian Through a uniquely textural style of oil painting that evokes the fluidity of watercolors, Jennifer Packer recasts classical genres in a fresh political and contemporary light while keeping them rooted in a deeply personal context. Combining observation, improvisation and memory, Packer's intimate portraits of friends and family members and flower paintings insist on the particularity of the Black lives she depicts. The title of this volume refers to an ecclesiastical description of the insatiable human quest for divine knowledge; with this in mind, Packer's work urges viewers to understand and appreciate the unique dimensions of Black lives beyond just the physical. Richly illustrated, this volume includes texts by fellow painters Dona Nelson and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, professors Rizvana Bradley and Christina Sharpe, and an interview between the artist and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist. American painter Jennifer Packer(born 1984) grew up in Philadelphia and received her MFA from Yale University in 2012. She was formerly the Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2012-13) and a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA (2014-16). She currently works as an assistant professor of painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Packer is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York City, where the artist lives.

Book Pier Groups

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  • Author : Jonathan Weinberg
  • Publisher : Penn State University Press
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780271082172
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Pier Groups written by Jonathan Weinberg and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the uses of the abandoned Hudson River docks in New York City by artists and a newly emerging gay subculture between 1971 and 1983.

Book Nicholas Galanin

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  • Author : Nicholas Galanin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-05-04
  • ISBN : 9781732124103
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Nicholas Galanin written by Nicholas Galanin and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication spans the multiple generations and forms of media that inform Nicholas Galanin¿s ¿vessels of knowledge, culture and technology¿inherently political, generous, unflinching, and poetic.¿ He creates and speaks through multiple visual, audible, and tactile languages, a practice succinctly articulated through the introduction by artist Merritt Johnson, and further explored in conversation and critical analysis through scholars Negarra A. Kudumu and Erin Joyce. Galanin¿s practice includes numerous collaborations, including with his brother and fellow artist Jerrod Galanin under the moniker Leonard Getinthecar, through his participation in two artist collectives, Black Constellation, and Winter Count, and with the recently-announced group Indian Agent, along with Otis Calvin III, and Zak Dylan Wass¿their first album, Meditations in the Key of Red, was released in 2017.Through two- and three-dimensional works and time-based media, Galanin encourages reflection on cultural amnesia that actively obscures collective memory and acquisition of knowledge. Galanin¿s work has been exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. This is his first monograph.

Book Noah Davis

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  • Author : Noah Davis
  • Publisher : David Zwirner Books
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 1644230372
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Noah Davis written by Noah Davis and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a crucial record of the painter Noah Davis’s extraordinary oeuvre, this monograph tells the story of a brilliant artist and cultural force through the eyes of his friends and collaborators. Despite his exceedingly premature death at the age of 32, Davis’s paintings have deeply influenced the rise of figurative and representational painting in the twenty-first century. Davis’s emotionally charged work places him firmly in the canon of great American painting. Stirring, elusive, and attuned to the history of painting, his compositions infuse scenes from everyday life with a magical realist atmosphere and contain traces of his abiding interest in artists such as Marlene Dumas, Kerry James Marshall, Fairfield Porter, and Luc Tuymans. This catalogue is born of the unique relationship between Davis and Helen Molesworth, whom Davis entrusted to be the curator of his work. It is published on the occasion of the 2020 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which travels to The Underground Museum in Los Angeles, a space that Davis founded with his wife, artist Karon Davis. In her introduction, catalogue essay, and interviews with important figures in Davis’s life, Molesworth shows how the artist’s generosity and sense of responsibility galvanized a uniquely supportive artistic community, culture, and vision. Together with color illustrations and archival photographs, the book features heartfelt testimonials that unfold in the intimate yet expansive spirit of studio visits with people close to him.

Book Never Forget

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  • Author : Nicholas Galanin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-06
  • ISBN : 9781735642314
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Never Forget written by Nicholas Galanin and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Galanin's forthcoming artist's book is dedicated to a single work, Never Forget-. This piece, beyond the visual component, is a call to action regarding the Land Back movement to acquire legal title to Indigenous homelands for tribal communities in the United States.

Book Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Download or read book Njideka Akunyili Crosby written by and published by Victoria Miro. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun in 2014, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's ongoing series, The Beautyful Ones is comprised of portraits of Nigerian children, including members of the artist's family, derived from personal photographs and, more recently, from images taken during her frequent visits to Nigeria, where Akunyili Crosby lived until the age of sixteen.Its title is taken from the 1968 novel by the Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, a book whose influence endured during the artist's adolescence in the 1990s and is still felt today. In it, the author laments the lost idealism of a generation in the 1960s for a better Africa, post-independence.In, The Beautyful Ones the artist reinstates this optimism in her own and subsequent generations while offering a powerful perspective on the complexities of a contemporary diasporic experience.Crosby is one of the most distinctive voices of her generation, and this book, only the second publication on the Los-Angeles based artist. It features extensive illustrations of works in the series and an essay by Siddhartha Mitter, who, reflecting on the work's complex history, weaves together the social, cultural, personal and political strands of its making.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The Beautyful Ones at Victoria Miro, Venice (8 May - 13 July 2019).

Book Julie Mehretu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christine Y. Kim
  • Publisher : Prestel Publishing
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9783791358741
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Julie Mehretu written by Christine Y. Kim and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times Best Art Books of 2019 This full-scale retrospective monograph of Julie Mehretu's work traces the development of one of America's most celebrated abstract painters. Over the past twenty-five years Julie Mehretu has emerged as a major force in American art. Known mostly for her enormous abstract paintings, she also produces exquisite drawings, often created as studies for larger works. This sumptuous volume accompanies a major mid-career survey of Mehretu's work. Designed to allow close viewing of Mehretu's vast canvases, it features lush reproductions of her paintings in their entirety, as well as numerous full-page details. The genesis for much of Mehretu's work lies in the black ink drawings she created in the late 1990s. From these early drawings and paintings, Mehretu moved onto large-scale canvases. These drawings and paintings are maplike and colorful, with diagrammatic elements that reflect her life experience. Each of these stages of her oeuvre is represented here, including works from her landmark exhibition Drawing into Painting, the twelve-panel intaglio, Auguries, and the paintings she created as a result of time spent in Africa and the Middle East. Accompanying these images are numerous essays by leading curators, scholars, and writers. Long overdue, this magnificent volume pays tribute to an artist whose work and process intermingle in a unique and important examination of painting, history, geopolitics, and displacement. Published with the Whitney Museum of American Art

Book Iman Issa

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  • Author : Diana Nawi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-06-30
  • ISBN : 9780692479155
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Iman Issa written by Diana Nawi and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nicole Eisenman Hb

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  • Author : cameron
  • Publisher : Contemporary Painters
  • Release : 2021-06-14
  • ISBN : 9781848224506
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Nicole Eisenman Hb written by cameron and published by Contemporary Painters. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a body of work that explores a broad spectrum of subjects--from lesbianism and feminism to contemporary politics and the natural world--Nicole Eisenman (b.1965) challenges convention and encourages viewers to construe meanings from images that demand interrogation and debate. Illustrating paintings spanning the early 1990s to the present day, Dan Cameron unpacks the complexities of Eisenman's oeuvre via thematic chapters that address key ideas which emerge when drawing specific works together. As such, this first major account of Eisenman's painting career presents a clear analysis of the primary motivators that have fuelled the imagination of one of the most interesting and original contemporary artists working today.

Book Rooms You May Have Missed

Download or read book Rooms You May Have Missed written by Mirko Zardini and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rooms You May Have MIssed presents two unexpected stories of architectural attitudes that start unfolding from the interior. On one side, Umberto Riva offers a radical rethinking of the elements associated with everyday inhabitation and a continual questioning of "modern" precepts ; on the other, Bijoy Jain proposes an alternative means of production for contemporary architecture and role for the architect in the economy of building. Together, they point to other paths--modest and particular, but also ambitious and resonant--toward conceiving and making architecture today"--Back cover.

Book Todd Gray

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  • Author : Rebecca McGrew
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780997930603
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Todd Gray written by Rebecca McGrew and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (From table of contents)Foreword /Kathleen Stewart Howe --Introduction:Time and space--the work of Todd Gray /Rebecca McGrew and Hannah Grossman --Todd Gray: composite stranger /Nana Adusei-Poku --Conversation with Todd Gray /Carrie Mae Weems --Relocating the fragments: the kaleidoscopic vision of Todd Gray /M. Neelika Jayawardane --Image plates --Artist's biography /Todd Gray --Longing on a large scale /Nana Adusei-Poku --Exhibition checklist --Contributors' biographies.

Book Autumn Knight

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  • Author : Autumn Knight
  • Publisher : Marquand Books
  • Release : 2019-02-19
  • ISBN : 9781883015503
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Autumn Knight written by Autumn Knight and published by Marquand Books. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive publication on New York-based interdisciplinary artist Autumn Knight documents her performances addressing the regulation of African American female bodies. Accompanying these images are scores and notes, text by performance studies scholars and an artist interview with choreographer Cynthia Oliver.

Book Lost Coast

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781942953296
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Lost Coast written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: