Painter, Printmaker, Installation Artist, Sculptor (Canada, b. 1975)
Spaced Invaders, from Interventions on the Imaginary series, 2014; printed 2019. Inkjet digital print, 31-1/2 x 22-1/2 inches. Krannert Art Museum.
Sonny Assu by
Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective spans over a decade of Assu's career, highlighting more than 120 full-color works, including several never-before-exhibited pieces. Through analytical essays and personal narratives, Candice Hopkins, Marianne Nicolson, Richard Van Camp, and Ellyn Walker provide brilliant commentary on Assu's practice, its meaning in the context of contemporary art, and its wider significance in the struggle for Indigenous cultural and political autonomy. Exploring themes of Indigenous rights, consumerism, branding, humor, and the ways in which history informs contemporary ideas and identities, Sonny Assu: A Selective History is the first major full-scale book to pay tribute to this important, prolific, and vibrant figure in the contemporary art world.
Assemblage Artist (United States, 1922–2008)
Baum, Don. Parade. 1965. Metal, wood, rubber, fabric. 25 1⁄8 x 37 5⁄8 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Don Baum by
Catalog for a traveling exhibition which opened at the Madison Art Center.
Installation Artist, Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor (United States, born in France, 1911–2010)
Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Prints by
Featuring two series (25 works) by one of the most influential artists of recent decades Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Prints presents these highly personal and dreamlike expressions of this formidable creative force.Most of the French-American artist's work dealt with strongly autobiographical themes, invoking her childhood emotions of loneliness, desire, anxiety and jealousy.A prolific printmaker, Bourgeois' Autobiographical Series capture her deepest thoughts and memories, particularly in a suite of 14 etchings (from 1994).As a companion, the collection of 11 Drypoints (from 1999) offer a more abstract perspective, using metaphorical motifs and themes to conjure the dreams and images that haunted her to the very end of her life.Faithfully reproduced with arresting clarity, intriguing and highly immersive, both sets of prints open a window into the mind of the artist.Featuring two new texts: Roger Malbert provides an overview of the role that printmaking played in the artist's long career, while psychoanalyst and feminist Juliet Mitchell explores themes of childhood trauma and sexuality.Published to accompany a touring exhibition across the UK and Ireland in 2015-16.
The Prints of Louise Bourgeous by
"As a sculptor, Louise Bourgeois is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and influential American artists. Born in Paris in 1911, she came to New York in 1938 and pursued a singular path in her art after World War II, creating a body of sculpture and installation works that was first surveyed in a retrospective exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1982. Her increasing recognition since then culminated with the selection of her work to represent the United States at the 1993 Venice Biennale." "For most of her long career, her considerable body of printed work, exploring at an intimate scale many of the same personal and artistic concerns as her sculpture, remained largely unknown. In 1990 Bourgeois decided to donate her complete printed oeuvre to The Museum of Modern Art; that decision has made it possible for this important aspect of her achievement to be catalogued and presented to the public comprehensively in this book."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Painter and Printmaker(United States, b. 1978)
The Pattern of all patience 5 2014, Acrylic on canvas drop cloth, 9 x 6 feet. Western Exhibitions.
For Opacity by
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Drawing Center, October 12, 2018-February 3, 2019, in the Main Gallery.
Vitamin D2 by
An up-to-the-minute survey of contemporary drawing featuring 115 artists from around the world, Vitamin D2allows the reader to look at the medium in detail and study drawing's unique properties in relation to itself, to contemporary art and to the world at large.
Textile Artist (Paraguay and Argentina, 1962–1996)
Recovering Beauty by
In this first comprehensive presentation of art from the 1990s in Argentina, Recovering Beauty places the Centro Cultural Rojas (CCR) at the core of this creative period. The CCR, or "El Rojas" as it was later known, opened in 1989 as a venue for emerging artists. The "El Rojas" artists epitomized a collective will to move beyond a grim recent past by creating introspective narratives that looked towards the ordinary as a source of inspiration. Artists such as Feliciano Centuri n, Sebasti n Gordin, Jorge Gumier Mier, Miguel Harte, Graciela Hasper, Benito Laren, Marcelo Pombo, Cristina Schiavi and Omar Schiliro espoused conceptions of beauty, color and fantasy, and the projection of psychology as artistic expression. Recovering Beauty is the first sustained examination of this fascinating moment in Argentine culture, which chimes with trends towards the fantastical and the decorative in American art of the late 1990s and 2000s.
Feliciano Centurión by
Key textile works by Feliciano Centurión, combining folk art and queer aesthetics in 1990s South America Through the embroidery and painting of vernacular objects such as blankets and aprons, Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión (1962-96) rendered poetic readings of his youth in the tropics, his experiences of love in the metropolis and his reflections prior to his untimely death from AIDS-related illness. Since his death, Centurión's work has been largely overlooked, only recently receiving recognition. This book traces the short but vibrant career of a remarkable artist. With essays and reproductions, it attends to Centurión's stories of the self--his love life, his disease--but also stories of a cultural body searching for a new political expression in a changing world. The book reproduces over 80 key works by the artist, accompanied by numerous details and archival material.
Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor (United States, b. 1930)
Usuyuki (ULAE 222), 1982. Color screenprint, 36-1/2 x 54 inches, 1983-10-1. Krannert Art Museum.
Jasper Johns: in Press by
Centering on The Dutch Wives, a double-panel encaustic-and-newsprint painting in the artist's signature "crosshatch" motif, this catalogue explores the impact of print on the work of Jasper Johns. The two panels are imperfect duplicates of each other, thus evoking issues of replication that are native to reproductive media. The book examines "print" and "the press" in terms not only of printmaking and Johns's celebrated experiments in that medium, but also in informational terms, tracing Johns's frequent use of newsprint and its material, temporal, political, and formal implications. The publication also features prints and drawings by Johns that help demonstrate the aspects of printmaking that inform his entire oeuvre: repetition, reversal, indexicality, layering, sequencing, and topology. Exhibition schedule: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, opening May 2012
Jasper Johns by
This extraordinary book pairs two major talents of our time, the painter/sculptor/printmaker Jasper Johns and the physician/novelist/filmmaker Michael Crichton. Since it first appeared in 1977, Michael Crichton's Jasper Johns has been considered the preeminent study of one of America's foremost living artists. Abrams is proud now to publish this completely revised, expanded, and updated version of a modern classic. Jasper Johns has often been called an artist's artist. In his use of found objects and commonplace imagery, he creates tantalizing, intellectually demanding works of unparalleled originality and uncommon beauty. His new work, with its puns, optical illusions, and embedded images ranging from George Ohr pots to the Isenheim Altarpiece to Picasso etchings, has attracted an unprecedented level of intense critical attention. Here Michael Crichton, author of The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun, among other bestsellers, brings to bear his own extraordinary gifts, particularly his analytic skill and his superior abilities as narrator and storyteller. Crichton, who has known Johns and collected his work for more than twenty years, offers a dazzling succession of intimate glimpses of Johns' potent and seemingly contradictory aspects, many of them highlighted by interviews with the artist, his dealers, and distinguished contemporary critics. He also conducts a powerful, sensitive, and wide reaching critique of Johns' work - and in so doing offers an intriguing investigation into the very nature of the artistic response. Accompanying Crichton's text are 186 black-and-white illustrations, including works by Johns, photographs of him, and comparative examples. Then comesa spectacular display of 231 paintings, prints, sculptures, and drawings by Jasper Johns, ranging from his earliest pieces to his most recent works, some forty years later. Of these, 128 are reproduced in duotone and 103 in full color, including six magnificent foldout pages - t
Painter (South Korea, active in United States, b. 1956)
Red Calendar/Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow-V. 1995. Graphite, resin, graph paper, oil and watercolor on paper, 14 x 11 in. (35.56 x 27.94 cm). Krannert Art Museum.
At the crossroads : celebrating the centennial of Korean immigration to the U.S. : twenty contemporary New York artists by
ublished on the occasion of an exhibition held in New York at Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service in New York, from Oct. 30 to Nov. 29, 2003.
Assemblage Artist, Painter, Photomontage Artist (United States, b. 1957)
The Strange Life of Objects by
The Strange Life of Objects provides the first critical overview of Annette Lemieux's dynamic and varied career. She first garnered attention on the newly global art scene of the 1980s. Since that time she has continued to produce work that grows in depth and resonance, proving herself an artist of lasting significance. Lemieux's early use of traditional techniques - painting, printing, casting, and photography - expanded to include found materials laden with cultural meanings and evocative of personal memories. Whatever the material, Lemieux masters and invents techniques and processes that correlate with states of mind. Major themes she returns to within our shifting political and cultural climate include the horror of war, the nature of time, the elusive truth of memory, the nature of ideas and art-making, and the relationship between personal experience and cultural history. A teacher and prolific artist, she lives and works in Boston where she is professor of the practice in studio arts at Harvard University.
Glass Artist (United States, b. 1975)
Burn. Flameworked glass. 5 x 9 x 7.25 inches, 2022.
Studio Craft As Career by
This unusual two-section resource directs creative people toward their personal best. Internationally renowned artist Paul Stankard provides a practical, personal guide outlining his philosophy based on self-directed learning. First, by referencing his own career path, he offers readers what he yearned for during his 45-year journey toward international acclaim: a practical, intimate guide showing how successful artists achieve excellence in their work. Next, he introduces a cross section of dozens of masters who are respected by experts on the American craft landscape. Stankard walks you through a selection of 150+ top works from these artists, each of whom also offers candid advice. With this guide, learn tocompete with the best from the past and the present as you pursue a personal journey in the studio, or consider a career in the arts. This bookpromotes self-directed learning, and is destined to be a classic.
Ceramicist (United States, b. 1958)
Like a Valentine by
Issued in connection with an exhibition held October 27, 2012-January 27, 2013, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
Organized for the Henry by Curator Sara Krajewski.
Visual Artist (United States, b. 1953)
Stencil, weaving, embroidery, applique. 72″x65″. Collection of the artist.
Fiber Artist (United States, b. 1942)
The Art Fabric by
A history of an art movement with an analysis and techniques. "This sweeping survey of Art Fabric works, objects, and activity in the important decade of the 1970's is a roaring statement of artistic truth. The relative youth of this movement is reflected in the vigor of the works presented. Yet their technical maturity and aesthetic soundness and honesty reflect a tradition of great antiquity. Far more than just a valuable documentation of the art fabric movement, this book is a statement of love for this medium by authors who are major forces in the art fabric world and sets a standard for art in any medium" - from front flap.
Painter, Printmaker, Tapestry Innovator (United States, 1918–2011)
Visa Wednesday, ca. 1976. Lithograph; printed by Edward Hamilton; Published by Tamarind Institute. 30 x 22 inches, 1982-21-211. Krannert Art Museum.
June Wayne: a Catalog Raisonne, 1936-2006 by
June Wayne is widely acknowledged to have significantly influenced the art of the modern print. Her own lithographs demonstrate how the printed image can evoke a depth and expressive power equal to painting, and her founding and directing the Tamarind Lithography Workshop have made her innovative approaches available to artists and printers worldwide. But Wayne's artistic accomplishments exceed her role as "the incontestable pioneer of contemporary lithography." Throughout her career, she has boldly explored a variety of media and aesthetic concepts in painting, tapestry, film, and video, always pushing the limits of her media to create suitable vehicles for her philosophical and emotional content. Her themes are as varied and advanced as her methods, evolving from astrophysics and metaphysics, genetic and personal history, fables and feminist theory. While her earliest images were rooted in first social realism and then surrealism, within a decade she had defined an independent course for herself that ranged far and wide over the next sixty years, exploring both micro- and macrocosmic realms while never losing contact with her direct experience of the present human condition. Most recently, she addressed another aspect of this experience, the visual impact of organized religion in her neighborhood, and used digital imaging and printing techniques. Now, for the first time, the astounding range of Wayne's art is available in one comprehensive volume. Bringing together more than 475 examples of her paintings, prints, tapestries, drawings, films, and writings, this definitive catalogue provides a balanced look at Wayne's long and varied career. Two essays, one by Robert P. Conway and the other by Arthur C. Danto, offer scholarly commentary on individual works and address questions of interpretation and significance. Much of the commentary on the images, however, is provided in Wayne's own words, offering rare personal insights.
June Wayne by
In 1960, June Wayne founded Tamarind Lithography Workshop, and if she had done nothing more her place in the history of American art would have been established. However, apart from Tamarind her conceptual and technical innovations are the mark of a highly original artist. This volume examines her life's work in all media, including painting, graphics, and tapestry designs. She has investigated time and space, the genetic code and molecular energy, stellar winds and magnetic fields. Her interest in optics of the 1950s contributed to a satiric narrative style that appears and reappears in the form of autobiography as well as in oddly convincing metaphor.
