Published to commemorate David Hammons’s (b. 1943) public art project Day’s End, located in New York City, this book documents the sculpture and offers broader context into Hammons’s enigmatic work. In 2014, Hammons sent the Whitney Museum of American Art a sketch for a monument to Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), paying homage to Matta-Clark’s legendary Day’s End (1975)—an industrial,…
This volume accompanies a major survey of work by Filipino artist and political activist David Medalla (1938–2020). Spanning his 7-decade-long career, it includes a vast selection of Medalla’s drawings, paintings, collages, sculptures and kinetic art, as well as his previously unpublished writings. Walther Koenig Paperback pages ISBN 9783753302164
This catalog, published on the occasion of the exhibition If Revolution is a Sickness, presents the first monographic book on work by artist Diane Severin Nguyen, which considers how songs and shared histories are woven together across different times and places. The book centers on a new film by Nguyen that is set in Warsaw,…
This second expanded edition presents an unprecedented visual survey of the living and working spaces of the artist Donald Judd in New York and Texas. Filled with newly commissioned and archival photographs alongside five essays by the artist, this book provides an opportunity to explore Judd s personal spaces, which are a crucial part of…
One of the most significant American artists of the postwar period, Judd rigorously experimented with color, form, material, and space. The works in this catalogue range from the artist’s expansive installations to self-contained single units, yielding valuable new insights into his process and approach. The survey includes one of his largest and most intricate installations…
Since the early 1960s, Dorothy Iannone (born 1933) has occupied herself with the attempt to represent ecstatic unity — the union of gender, feeling and pleasure, as she describes it—resulting in a body of frequently autobiographical work encompassing painting, drawing, collage, objects and publications. This volume examines the censorship of Iannone s work, using her…
A superb facsimile of Dorothy Ianonne’s 1970 comic-book tale of censorship, sexuality and female autonomy As much as Love and Eros have defined my work since its beginnings, so too has censorship, or its shadow, accompanied it, recalls Dorothy Iannone (born 1933) in her introduction to this facsimile publication of her legendary The Story of Bern,…
Copublished with the National Gallery of Art in celebration of Virginia Dwan’s gift to the Gallery of her extraordinary personal collection, Dwan Gallery explores her remarkable career. Dwan is one of the most influential figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. Her eponymously named galleries, the first established in a Los Angeles storefront in 1959, followed…
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (b.1990) is a Los Angeles-based artist who combines natural materials such as rubber and amber with found clothing, street detritus, and ephemera to create large-scale sculptural archives of Salvadoran communities in Los Angeles that give form to experiences of diaspora, migration, and solidarity. Published to accompany the artist’s MOCA Focus series exhibition,…
Edith Heath: Philosophies serves as the definitive resource on Edith Kiertzner Heath (1911–2005) and the history of Heath Ceramics, emphasizing the philosophical foundations and influences of one of the most signifcant creative forces in post-WWII America. This publication offers an in-depth commentary on the presented themes – the environment, feminism, experimentation, architecture, politics, collaborations –…
Working in photography, film, sculpture, performance and installation, Los Angeles–based artist Elad Lassry (born 1977) has established himself as one of the most original artists of his generation, with works that are at once visually seductive and conceptually challenging. This book documents Lassry’s solo exhibition at the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea in Milan, Italy. With an…
This book documents Elaine Reichek s exhibition Between the Needle and the Book at McClain Gallery, Houston in early 2020. This two-part show introduces Reichek s five-decade career like a pair of bookends, juxtaposing her most recent text-based embroideries with sewn paintings and fabric works from the 1970s.
Accidental Records includes new paintings and drawings by Ellen Gallagher (born 1965) that continue her exploration of the complex histories of the Black Atlantic and the afterlives of the Middle Passage. Widely associated with a resurgence in this diasporic critical space, Gallagher has developed her own genre of history painting which makes us question our geographies….
Accompanying the large-scale traveling exhibition Ellsworth Kelly at 100, this volume celebrates the groundbreaking career of the beloved American abstractionist. This publication highlights key aspects of his multifaceted art—from his lifelong drawing practice through his later explorations of layered canvas panels. Kelly frequently revisited shapes and motifs observed throughout his career, exploring form, color, line and…
A richly visual volume with over 60 reproductions of Asawa s art and archival photos of her life (including portraits shot by her friend, the celebrated photographer Imogen Cunningham)Documents Asawa s transformative touch—most notably by turning wire – the material of the internment camp fences – into sculptures Author Marilyn Chase mined Asawa s letters, diaries,…
In the turmoil of the 1920s and ’30s, Claude Cahun challenged gender stereotypes with her powerful photographs, montages, and writings, works that appear to our twenty-first-century eyes as utterly contemporary, or even from the future. She wrote poetry and prose for major French literary magazines, worked in avant-garde theater, and was both comrade of and…