In his late eighties, American painter Charles Garabedian is hardly a household name. But he is a highly influential artist whose works are collected by LACMA, the Met, MoMA, the Whitney, the Corcoran and the Smithsonian, among other institutions, and the subject of this extensively illustrated exhibition catalog from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. This revelatory group of intimate representational paintings and drawings -- from Garabedian's first museum show in almost 30 years -- explores themes of war, music, the body, dismemberment, heroism, comic pretension, love and death. An exciting discovery of surprising importance.

Charles Garabedian: A Retrospective

Arts & Photography

Julie Joyce

Michael, Duncan

Charles Garabedian

Christopher Miles

Nevin Schreiner

History & Criticism

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

In this catalog for his first solo museum exhibition in the western United States, Israel-born photographer/filmmaker Ori Gersht depicts scenes of natural beauty that disguise and reveal a history of violence. His work has been shown at the Tate, the Hirschorn, the Getty, and other important institutions. Several of the 28 works in this slim, paperback catalog from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art use stop motion photography and slow-motion film to render a prolonged moment of suspense. With Gersht's trademark references to historic paintings, these remarkable photo/film works provide a meditation on life, loss, destiny and chance. In one series, Gersht recreates a flower arrangement from a work of Jacques-Louis David which he then freezes with nitrogen and blows up, capturing the action in vivid detail at 1/6000 of a second. This meticulously printed color catalog does justice to these complex works.

Ori Gersht - Lost in Time

Carol Armstrong

Michele Robecchi

Ori Gersht

Decades before today s major Los Angeles museums realized the potential of contemporary art, the pioneering institutions Pasadena Art Museum and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art under curator directors Thomas Leavitt and Walter Hopps championed talented local and internationally recognized painters. Part of the Getty Research Institute s Pacific Standard Time initiative, this crisp exhibition catalog reconstructs the partially forgotten history through photos and reproductions. Storied moments such as Kienholz s first solo show(1961), Duchamp s chess game with a naked Eve Babitz(1963) and Diebenkorn s first major exhibition(1963) reenter the annals of 20th century American art history.

Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969

Ram Publications

Patrick Nickell: Built For Speed / A Sculptural Survey [exhibition: 24 May - 12 July, 2003]

Patrick Nickell

Anne Ayres

Luckman Gallery

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