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Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks (Hardcover)
Alexis Rockman; Edited by Andrea Grover; Introduction by Daniel Finamore, Trevor Smith; Text written by Sasha Archibald, …
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With a career spanning over three decades, internationally
acclaimed artist Alexis Rockman is well known for his complex,
large scale paintings and works on paper depicting the collision
between civilization and nature. The artist synthesizes elements of
human history, natural science and landscape painting; a passionate
interest in climate change and globalization; and a healthy dose of
art history and science fiction, to create images that reveal our
world balancing on the precipice. Beyond their lush surfaces,
radiant washes of color, and technical inventiveness belies a dark
humor, an intense curiosity and a probing intelligence that serves
to heighten the power and urgency of his invented narratives. Works
on Paper is the first comprehensive survey of the artist's graphic
work, documenting his extraordinary accomplishments as a draftsman
through a meticulous selection of watercolors, gouaches, oil
drawings, field studies, and sketchbooks. Designed in close
collaboration with the artist, the book reproduces 120 works, many
of which have never before been published. Included are his
earliest watercolors from the 1980s, often of hybrid and mutated
animals; Field Drawings, created in Guyana and other remote
locations from mud sourced on site; the ominously beautiful and
apocalyptic Weather Drawings; painterly works relating to his epic
The Great Lakes Cycle; and Lost at Sea, his most recent body of
work reimagining famed and historic shipwrecks. The book includes a
visual appendix of Rockman's graphic influences, with commentary by
the artist. Works on Paper is a valuable addition to scholarship on
the artist, providing a critical understanding of a visionary
oeuvre made at the intersection of art, nature and science.
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