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Portia Zvavahera (Hardcover)
Portia Zvavahera, Meredith A. Brown; Interview by Allie Biswas
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“The rising star’s ethereal work is filled with transcendent
imagery that allows the viewer to peek beyond the veil of earthly
existence.” — Naomi Rea, Artnet News In her paintings,
Zvavahera gives form to emotions that manifest from other realms
and dimensions beyond the domains of everyday life and thought. Her
vivid imagery is rooted in the cornerstones of our earthly
existence—life and death, pain and pleasure, isolation and
connection, and love and loss. This is the first book to explore
her work in vivid detail. Zvavahera draws from a powerful visual
vocabulary comprising women, her family, and shape-shifting
animals, in scenes both metaphorical and fantastical. In several
paintings, she makes use of intricate patterns taken from her own
floral or classical Zimbabwean designs. Her particular process of
alternating painting and printing results in images that
communicate complex emotions in a play of tension and release. The
result is a deeply personal body of work that probes the nature of
the human condition. As Zvavahera states, “It is me in the
paintings.… I can only speak about myself.” In addition to
gorgeous reproductions of seventy-five paintings, including
up-close details and installation views, this catalogue also
features a new essay by curator Meredith Brown and an interview
with the artist by writer Allie Biswas. This catalogue surveys work
made since 2017, including her much-lauded contribution to the 2022
Venice Biennale.
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Alice Neel - People Come First (Hardcover)
Kelly Baum, Randall Griffey; Contributions by Meredith A. Brown, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Susanna V. Temkin
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Positioning Alice Neel as a champion of civil rights, this book
explores how her paintings convey her humanist politics and capture
the humanity, strength, and vulnerability of her subjects
“One of the most ambitious and thorough collections of Neel’s
work to date.”—Allison Schaller, Vanity Fair “For me,
people come first,” Alice Neel (1900–1984) declared in 1950.
“I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the
human being.” This ambitious publication surveys Neel’s nearly
70-year career through the lens of her radical humanism. Remarkable
portraits of victims of the Great Depression, fellow residents of
Spanish Harlem, leaders of political organizations, queer artists,
visibly pregnant women, and members of New York’s global diaspora
reveal that Neel viewed humanism as both a political and
philosophical ideal. In addition to these paintings of famous and
unknown sitters, the more than 100 works highlighted include
Neel’s emotionally charged cityscapes and still lifes as well as
the artist’s erotic pastels and watercolors. Essays tackle
Neel’s portrayal of LGBTQ subjects; her unique aesthetic
language, which merged abstraction and figuration; and her
commitment to progressive politics, civil rights, feminism, and
racial diversity. The authors also explore Neel’s highly personal
preoccupations with death, illness, and motherhood while
reasserting her place in the broader cultural history of the 20th
century. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by
Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York (March 22–August 1, 2021) Guggenheim,
Bilbao (September 17, 2021–January 30, 2022) de Young
Museum, San Francisco (March 12–July 10, 2022)
The beautiful catalogue that accompanies the critically-acclaimed
exhibition currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum Best known
for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and
revisited over many years both in drawings and paintings, Vija
Celmins (b. 1938) has been creating exquisitely detailed renderings
of natural imagery for more than five decades. The oceans were
followed by desert floors and night skies-all subjects in which
vast, expansive distances are distilled into luminous, meticulous,
and mesmerizing small-scale artworks. For Celmins, this obsessive
"redescribing" of the world is a way to understand human
consciousness in relation to lived experience. The first major
publication on the artist in twenty years, this comprehensive and
lavishly illustrated volume explores the full range of Celmins's
work produced since the 1960s-drawings and paintings as well as
sculpture and prints. Scholarly essays, a narrative chronology, and
a selection of excerpts from interviews with the artist illuminate
her methods and techniques; survey her early years in Los Angeles,
where she was part of a circle that included James Turrell and Ken
Price; and trace the development of her work after she moved to New
York City and befriended figures such as Robert Gober and Richard
Serra. Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art Exhibition Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(12/15/18-03/31/19) Art Gallery of Ontario (05/04/19-08/04/19) The
Met Breuer, New York (09/24/19-01/12/20)
A timely exploration of artists whose work addresses the subject of
conspiracy and media manipulation in modern culture Shaped by
events such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam
War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11, conspiracy
theories have flourished and influenced our collective worldview.
This provocative book examines how artists from the 1960s to the
present explore both the covert operations of power and the mutual
suspicion between governments and their citizens. Featured are
works by 30 contemporary artists-including Sarah Charlesworth, Hans
Haacke, Rachel Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Mark Lombardi,
Cady Noland, Trevor Paglen, Raymond Pettibon, Jim Shaw, and Sue
Williams-in media ranging from painting, drawing, and photography
to video and installation art. Whether they uncover webs of deceit
hidden in the public record or dive headlong into the paranoid
fever dreams of the disaffected, artists examine the rhetorical
strategies of conspiracy researchers and endeavor to expose evil in
high places. Everything Is Connected elucidates the many ways in
which artists use their work to take a powerful and proactive
stance against the political corruption, consumerism, bureaucracy,
and media manipulation that are hallmarks of contemporary life.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale
University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Met Breuer, New York
(09/17/18-01/06/19)
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