American sculptor George Sugarman (1912–1999) was discarding the prevailing sculptural conventions of his time as early as 1959, dispensing with the pedestal and placing his work directly on the floor, breaking individual sculptures into multiple related units and employing a dramatic, almost baroque use of color. "In my sculpture, the color is as important as form and space," he wrote. "An important aspect is that the color is not used decoratively. It’s not used to be pretty or attractive. It is used to articulate the sculpture in space." Works such as "The Shape of Change" (1964), "Yellow and White" (1967) and "Threesome" (1968–1969) exemplify the radical spirit of Sugarman’s sculpture from this period. This publication offers an in-depth look at Sugarman’s work during the 1960s--large-scale wood sculptures of eccentric, proliferating forms painted in brilliant hues--and accompanies the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work in more than 25 years.

George Sugarman: Painted Wood

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Garth Greenan Gallery

The years between 1957 to 1962 were a time of intense innovation for American abstract painter Paul Feeley (1910–66). Although classically derived, Feeley's paintings from this period are looser and less emblematic than his better-known work from the mid-1960s. This volume examines this fertile phase.

Paul Feeley: 1957–1962

For over 35 years, Ontario-based artist and former member of the Hairy Who Art Green (born 1941) has carefully honed his personal iconography―idealized, archetypal images of ice cream cones, wood grain patterns, burning candles, moonlit landscapes and perfectly polished fingernails. This publication traces the development of Green's work from 1975 to 2013.

Art Green: Certain Subjects

Individual Artists

This publication focuses on the last works that Norbert Prangenberg (1949–2012) completed before his premature death. During a 2012 residency at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts he produced a diverse body of small-scale ceramics, most of which are abstractions based on either landscapes or portrait heads.

Norbert Prangenberg: The Last Works

This publication provides an overview of Howardena Pindell's (born 1943) work from 1974 to 1980, an incredibly innovative period in which she began cutting the canvas in strips and sewing them back together, then building up the surface in elaborate stages. By the late 1970s, sequins, string, hair and even perfume had become a part of her painting.

Howardena Pindell: Paintings, 1974-1980

Schwabsky, Barry

Chicago-based artist Gladys Nilsson (born 1940) combines drawings in ink and colored pencil with elements of collage and gouache watercolor for her large-scale compositions. Her figurative characters often appear contorted or warped, fluidly filling the canvas with long limbs and pointy features.

Gladys Nilsson

Vulgar Lives includes 38 paintings and a series of preparatory drawings created between 1960 and 2014 by legendary Pop artist Rosalyn Drexler (born 1926). A novelist, Obie-winning playwright, sculptor, wrestler, and film and television writer, Drexler is a one-of-a-kind polymath whose 1960s paintings have enjoyed a recent resurgence. Using vibrant, often primary colors, the artist creates collage-paintings incorporating societal or media imagery with her own fantastical twist; figures from Western cultural history such as Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol and the Beatles are a few of her iconic subjects. This publication is unique in its move beyond Drexler’s 1960s work, compiling a selection of the forceful―and sometimes jarring―imagery she has continued to create since that time, taking more liberties in form and content. Arranged chronologically, the works offer an insightful distillation of contemporary life in all its humorous and frightening contradictions.

Rosalyn Drexler: Vulgar Lives

This fully illustrated catalogue provides an overview of Los Angeles–based artist Alexis Smith’s (born 1949) work from 1994 to 2015. It features 28 of her meticulously crafted mixed-media collages, featuring images, objects and texts rescued from pop novels, postcards, roadmaps, movie stills and advertisements.

Alexis Smith

This publication presents four psychologically complex paintings by acclaimed New York–based artist Mark Greenwold (born 1942), alongside a selection of preparatory drawings. His laborious process involves thousands of miniscule brush strokes applied under magnification.

Mark Greenwold: The Rumble of Panic Underlying Everything

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