Polly Apfelbaum creates what she calls "fallen paintings," hybrid works of rare beauty that exist in a contentious, ambivalent space between painting, sculpture and installation. These works transform the colors of mass culture into wild oscillating spectra bordering on the organic. This volume accompanies the first large museum survey of her work, and features new and recent installations as well as a range of work from the past 15 years.

Polly Apfelbaum

Arts & Photography

SANDLER, Irving

Griffin, Tim

Schaffner, Ingrid

Individual Artists

ICA Philadelphia

One of the largest works that Stephen Hendee has ever constructed, Ascension is a 40-foot-high colossus that the viewer may walk up, through, and around, entering the space of the sculpture and exploring its multiple light-filled facets. This is also the first comprehensive publication to survey all of the installations and ambitious constructed environments for which Hendee has become internationally recognized. Innovative works that exist between the disciplines of sculpture and architecture, transforming spaces into complex realms that trigger associations with science-fiction dream worlds, Hendee's glowing, geometric sculptures have been likened to the virtual realms of cyberspace, crystallography and imaginary architecture.

Stephen Hendee: Ascension

Moos, David

Phillip, Robert

Birmingham Museum of Art

The first full-scale monograph on the work of New York–based artist Ryan Sullivan (born 1983), this book explores the relationships his abstract paintings propose between image and object. Staging complex interactions of materials, Sullivan produces images that are seemingly in motion, alive and contingent in their embodiment and description of material flows. Published on the occasion of Sullivan’s exhibition at ICA Miami, the book focuses on a group of large-scale works that are distinguished by noncompositional forms and alternately vivid, murky and sublime palettes. Ultimately transcendent of medium and process, Sullivan’s works offer critical solutions to a world in which abstraction has taken on a life of its own.

Ryan Sullivan

Gartenfeld, Alex

Scheidemann, Christian

Dancing Foxes Press/ICA Miami

Christopher Hamilton just graduated college, saddled with debt and about to embark on the prescribed post-graduate journey into corporate America. While this may be the stagnant plan of his generation, he couldn’t help but feel lost. Christopher is filled with grandiose ideas about life and what it should be, about morning hikes cascading the Rockies or plunging deep into the frigid waters in the Alaskan wilderness. While his friends move on scattered in cities across America, Christopher feels trapped in his Boston apartment, alone most days and paranoid about his monotonous future. In this fear comes a desire for change. Christopher begins to plan an escape that will see him scour the road near and abroad for answers to his existential doubts. From frigid mountain climbing in New Hampshire to the threat of imprisonment in Nicaragua, and eventually to the essence of his search, this book takes the reader on a modern adventure through the heart of a young man longing for reason. Pioneers delves deep into the human condition, critiquing the relevant need for structure while exposing our inherent desire for freedom. Follow Christopher's search for understanding and formulate your own questions along the way.

Pioneers

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Alice Neel (1900–1984) is widely considered one of the greatest portraitists of the twentieth century. Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, this beautifully designed book presents a selection of portraits and still lifes from the last two decades of the artist’s life. Called “the pre-eminent painter-chronicler of New York bohemia” by Deborah Solomon of The New York Times, Neel remains a hero to many of today’s most influential figurative painters, including Eric Fischl, Elizabeth Peyton and Marlene Dumas--as much for the emotional and psychological intensity of her work as for her exemplary fearlessness.

Alice Neel: Late Portraits and Still Lifes

History & Criticism

David Zwirner Books

Mungo Thomson's wide-ranging, multi-media work approaches mass culture and everyday perceptual experience through a lens of deep time and cosmic scale, implicating the spaces of production and exhibition in ever-widening extrapolations.He has convened an orchestral ensemble to perform a score transcribed from the chirping of crickets, persuaded museums to let their incoming mail pile up unopened in the galleries for the run of an exhibition, and replaced the coat-hangers in the Whitney Museum's coat check with custom-made hangers modeled on orchestral triangles, transforming it into an enormous musical instrument.Spanning his entire oeuvre, this first comprehensive monograph focuses in particular on the artist's three main series that embody his exploration of popular culture and everyday objects to question what we most take for granted, or fail to notice.In the 'TIME' series, person-sized silkscreened mirrors bearing the red border and logo of the 100-year-old international weekly newsmagazine, pair a precise historical moment with the viewer's own reflection in the present. As a series, these works form their own archive, reflecting each other, and picturing the viewer within an infinity room of culture and politics and media and design.The 'Wall Calendar' series displays commercial calendar images as if held up to the sun, allowing the reverse side of the page to show through. Printed on both sides of fabric and stretched over a lightbox, recto and verso are collaged together with light--the calendar grid of a single month is superimposed onto a photograph of a 40-million-year-old mountain, and the everyday minutiae of living is put into scale with geological time.These works consider geochronology from a precarious contemporary vantage, contrasting evocations of elevated consciousness with contemplations of extinction. Thomson's 'Snowman' is a series of trompe-l'oeil stacks of Amazon boxes and other online retail shipping cartons cast in sturdy patinated bronze. Both a droll contribution to the field of outdoor sculpture and a mineralogical transformation of the temporary and ephemeral into the permanent and geological, in 2020 the Snowman also became public art for a depopulated world.Includes a conversation with Laura Owens.

Mungo Thomson

Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah

Grau, Donatien

Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag Ag

This volume appears in honor of Gerhard Richter’s 80th birthday. His world-renowned oeuvre consists in large part of photorealistic paintings. The book contains 21 works by American artist and photographer Louise Lawler, who examines how Gerhard Richter’s paintings are handled within the context of museums, commercial galleries, auction houses, and in private and public collections. Taken over a period of twenty years, her images focus on Richter’s paintings in situ or in transit to exemplify the way in which modern art is handled on the various levels of the contemporary art scene. The clear, colorful, always frugal, and near minimalist composition of her photographs corresponds in a singular way with Richter’s subdued paintings, which also have their origins in photography, resulting in a sort of media reflection, in a subdued echo, as it were.

Louise Lawler: The Gerhard Richter Photographs

Schirmer/Mosel

This retrospective monograph documents the career of director Chantal Akerman (born 1950), who made her breakthrough in 1975 with Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, a film about the everyday activities of a housewife. Her work since then has continued to investigate ideas of biography, gender, identity and memory.

Chantal Akerman: Too Far, Too Close

Bruno, Giuliana

Rehberg, Vivian

Ludion

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