The first comprehensive monograph and critical survey of American artist Pippa Garner, ACT LIKE YOU KNOW ME, surveys fifty years of her radical and trans-disciplinary art practice, from the late 1960 s to the early 2010 s, through ca. 400 photographs, illustrations, ephemera, and original writings. Encompassing Garner s most iconic works, from the Backward Car to the Half-Suit, alongside never-before-seen photographs and ephemera,…
Originally published in a limited run in 1998, Primetime Contemporary Art documented In the Name of the Place, a radical two-year intervention by a group of artists, initiated by Mel Chin and known as the GALA Committee, on the primetime television show Melrose Place. This extremely rare artist’s book is reproduced for the first time as a facsimile edition.The…
This amply illustrated catalog surveys the work of the group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists, who exhibited together in the late 1960s, and whose influence continues to spread 50 years later. Drawing from a collection of rarely seen works, the book presents work from the 17 artists who comprise the original Imagist exhibition…
The New York Times called the Speed Art Museum s Promise, Witness, Remembrance ― centered around artist Amy Sherald s portrait of Breonna Taylor and originally commissioned by Ta-Nehisi Coates for the cover of Vanity Fair magazine ― one of the best art exhibitions of 2021. In the words of critic Holland Cotter, the show…
Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific, and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity, his radical performances are odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art and performance art over the period of his career. Queer Communion, an exploration…
Maine-based painter Reggie Burrows Hodges (born 1965) explores storytelling and visual metaphor, often drawing inspiration from his childhood in Compton, California. Starting from a black ground, Hodges develops the scene around his figures, who materialize in the recessive space with foggy, ethereal brushwork.Hodges figures are forms that are made sharper, and more haunting, not because…
A tennis ball, warped by the speed of impact, is captured right before it lands on the painted boundary of the court, its oblong shape conveyed through negative space—a window into the black ground with which Maine-based American artist Reggie Burrows Hodges (born 1965) treats his canvases. This is movement as observed by a hawkeye,…
Five creative takes on the evocative and elegant spaces of Foundation Beyeler’s Renzo Piano building The work of contemporary artists Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bächli, Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz and Rachel Whiteread provides various approaches to the space of Renzo Piano’s exemplary museum building for the Fondation Beyeler. These artists create a specific sense of space—acoustically,…
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Reynaldo Rivera took personal photos of the Los Angeles that he lived in and knew: a world of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, underground bands, and a handful of Latino gay and transvestite bars: Mugi s, The Silverlake Lounge, and La Plaza. Most of these bars are long closed…
Five years in the making, a massive career-spanning celebration of Los Angeles artist Richard Jackson s irreverent, colorful and joyful action installation paintings From the early 1970s on, the Wall Paintings, Stacks and Room installations of Sierra Madre-based artist Richard Jackson (born 1939) produced a series of landmark innovations in painting, sculpture, performance, installation and the relations between them. This…
Ricky Rides Rick is a short story by Alexandra Noel, featured artist in Made in L.A. 2020. In a fever dream-like progression of grotesque acts, a father explores the uncanny physical connection he has with his son. Comes with a bookmark designed by Apogee. Copies are signed by author. Print run 200. Co-published Apogee, Bodega, Holoholo28…
Public Works is a comprehensive monograph on American artist Rita McBride (born 1960), whose pieces made with everyday objects and structures blur the lines between sculpture, architectural installation and industrial design. The volume addresses a body of public artwork spanning a 20-year period. Rita McBrideKoenig BooksPaperback, 352 pagesISBN 9783863358501
The American artist Rita McBride (born 1960) has built an international reputation for producing sculptures that initially appear to be abstract geometric forms, but which on closer inspection prove to be derived from everyday objects and structures such as cars, towers and architectural items. McBride is concerned not only with sculptural objects, but with the…