Dear teachers and librarians,
Are your readers curious to learn more about modern and contemporary painting?
As one of the most popular subjects in our Library Program Catalog, we are happy to offer many unique exhibition catalogs and monographs. Here are a few recommendations to add to your library collections:
In this exhibition catalog, Niles meditates on personal loss through an exploration of landscape, drawing inspiration from the colorwork of both contemporary painters like Kerry James Marshall and Richard Mayhew and Old Masters like Caravaggio. In these new works, rendered in vibrant, technicolor hues that construct a signature kind of chiaroscuro, Niles finds himself immersed in nature—in the trees of a remote field, near the shore of the sea, bathed in crisp light peeking through bare trees on a sunny winter’s day.
Jessica Dickinson: Under | Press. | With-This | Hold- | Of-Also | Of/How | Of-More | Of:Know
Using painting, drawing, and abstraction as markers of a space outside verbal description, Jessica Dickinson examines the slow exchanges between perception, matter, and psychology that develop in peripheral spaces.
Milton Resnick: A Question of Seeing, Paintings 1959-1963
Like younger painters, such as Cy Twombly and Robert Ryman, Resnick worked in, through and beyond the language of NY gestural painting toward an intimate relationship with mark-making, the surface, and the physical matter of paint itself. Ultimately, the materiality of paint became paramount, and Resnick's intent dissolution of form resulted in ever more monochrome, thickly textured surfaces. The transition of Resnick's work from more explicitly Abstract Expressionist modes to the monochrome paintings of his later years was a result of the marked exploration witnessed in this exhibition catalog.
Model as Painting is the first in depth publication on Schoolwerth’s practice. The multi-media, figurative, and decidedly representational paintings in this monograph are elaborated through a unique and intensive sequence of creative phases, including digital photography, the making of collages and 3D models based on the collages, internet browsing, software image processing, printing, and finally, painting.
The eighty-eight page full color catalogue documents the survey of Mitchnick’s work organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. The catalogue serves almost as a small retrospective, documenting a range of Mitchnick’s work over the last thirty years. Including portraits, still life, and landscape painting–this publication is a great example showing how an artist’s work evolves over the course of their life.
Louis Stone: The Path to Abstraction, 1928-1945
Louis Stone: The Path to Abstraction, 1928-1945 is the catalog of an eponymous exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in 2006. The exhibition includes thirty oil paintings dating from 1928 to 1945, offering a comprehensive overview of the artist’s evolution from a traditional landscape and still-life painter to a bold, avant-garde modernist.
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