"Published on the occasion of Jay DeFeo's (1929-1989) first exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash featuring 50 key works spanning the years 1965-1989, this volume examines DeFeo's distinctive exploration of visual vocabulary, rich materiality and experimental process across the media of painting, drawing, photography and rarely-seen photocopy works. The catalogue features two double-page spreads of major paintings: "Lotus Eater" from 1974 ..."
" Since first coming into prominence in the ’90s and early 2000s, Laura Owens’s work has offered a set of wholly new and critical ideas about painting. Propelled by the conviction that her work should prompt difficult questions about the nature of painting, Owens distinguishes her work by refusing to commit to one artistic identity. From a consideration of the Owens’s varied use of line (Suzanne Hudson), the artist’s brilliant redefini ..."
"Looming large in both geological fact and sociocultural significance, mountains promise grandeur, picturesque natural beauty, good health and the chance to literally rise above the everyday--yet they also menace our imaginations with their harsh conditions, dangerous terrain and deep sense of isolation. These multivalent moods have proved an enticement to sportsmen, scientists, poets and philosophers. Indeed, our modern notion of the "s ..."
"As the United States slowly emerges from its most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression, the CCA Wattis Institute reexamines the well-known photography program of the Farm Security Administration (1935-44). In More American Photographs, 12 contemporary photographers were commissioned to travel the United States, documenting its land and people. These new works are presented alongside historical images by original FSA ..."
"Spanning from the late 19th century to the present with images produced for scientific and artistic contexts, Picture Industry includes the work of more than 70 artists and practitioners. An essential anthology of historical and theoretical texts, it reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as a scientific tool a ..."
""Camera of Wonders" is a homage to the exhibition "The Family of Man," which took place at MoMA in 1955. This publication accompanies a new exhibition at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, later traveling to the Kadist Foundation, Paris. This book presents more than 100 works of some of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the last 100 years, and represents an overview of photography in the 20th and 21st centuries, ..."
"Walead Beshty’s (b. London, 1976; lives and works in Los Angeles) oeuvre spans photographic works, sculpture, painting, installation, and video. "Procedurals" offers an overview of Beshty’s works from the last four years. With a conversation between the artist and Seth Kelly, Janine Latham, John Ryan Moore, Jane Park, Friedrich Petzel, and Bryne Rasmussen-Smith."
"Los Angeles-based artist and writer Walead Beshty (born 1976) started his Industrial Portraits series in 2008. He realizes them wherever he goes, asking all the art people he works with to pose in their working environment and working clothes: studio assistants, gallery staff, curators, lab technicians, critics, fellow artists, collectors, art handlers and even the -machines, - which contribute to an artwork's progress from studio to ga ..."
"This new expanded edition gives a ten-year overview of Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty (born 1976), and elucidates his approach to photographic and sculptural representation. Most recently, Beshty's work has concentrated on themes of production, making use of mundane procedures like air travel or mailing a package."
"Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty (born 1976) has long maintained an active writing career alongside his work in the visual arts. Writing on a variety of media, including essays on cinema, painting, sculpture and photography, and texts on artists such as Jay DeFeo, Sharon Lockhart, Kelley Walker, Luisa Lambri, Annette Kelm and Michael Asher, among others, Beshty has been widely published in both books and magazines. This book, the ..."