An artist whose work evokes both memory and the "gaps, sinkholes, and other chasms" found in our experiences, Gael Stack is one of the most accomplished American painters working today. Her large canvases and smaller drawings use fragments of words and images, often layered over one another like a palimpsest, to create a visual language that explores the past's implacable hold on the present, with what is unknown and unspoken occasionally poking through. Serendipitous elements of graciousness and optimism also distinguish her recent work.
Gael Stack is the first retrospective monograph on the artist's career, which has spanned four decades. It features a catalog of some one hundred works reproduced in full-color, full-page plates. Accompanying the images are essays by Raphael Rubinstein and Alison de Lima Greene, who discuss Stack's work in the context of world art. Rubinstein likens her paintings to Freud's "mystic writing-pad," a surface layer that can be endlessly written upon, erased, and refilled, while the underlying tablet retains traces of all that has been written—an apt metaphor for the workings of perception and memory. Greene also reflects on the theme of memory in Stack's art, particularly the ways in which memory can evolve into forgetfulness and cognizance can become ignorance. Lists of selected exhibitions and public collections in which her work has been featured and a bibliography complete this authoritative survey of Stack's career.

Gael Stack (M. Georgia Hegarty Dunkerley Contemporary Art Series)

Arts & Photography

Rubinstein, Raphaël

Stack, Gael

Greene, Alison De Lima

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

In 1928 Czech artistis Jindrich Štyrský and Toyen published the Artificielismus (Artificialism) manifesto, calling for "new formations" in contemporary art. The term aptly reflects the spirit of adventure that Houston philanthropists Roy and Mary Cullen brought to forming a comprehensive collection devoted to the radical developments of Czech art in the first decades of the twentieth century. New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection profiles this endeavor, highlighting more than 150 examples from this extraordinary collection, which encompasses paintings, drawings, prints, collages, photographs, artist-produced books, and rare examples of modern glass. 
Generously illustrated with over 350 full-color plates, this catalogue highlights the major figures of the Czech avant-garde, including Josef Šíma, Karel Teige, Jindrich Štyrský, and Toyen, among many others. Scholars Karel Srp and Lenka Bydžovská bring to light the complex evolution and artistic exchanges of this era, which saw the emergence of the uniquely Czech movements of Devetsil, Poetism, and Artificialism, as well as these artists' engagements with Surrealism and other major intellectual currents of the time. Particular attention is given to artists' publications, and a number of period texts have been translated for this catalogue as well. The authors also place the Czech avant-garde in a larger historical context, as World War II and cold war shifts in the political landscape doomed many of these artists to decades of obscurity and exile. 
In addition, the publication features an extended interview with Roy and Mary Cullen conducted by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, curator Alison de Lima Greene and an insightful essay by Jan Mergl, an expert in Bohemian glass, discussing the stylistic and technical evolution of modern Czech glass reflected by works in the Cullen collection.

New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection

Srp, Karel

Bydzovská, Lenka

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Arman 1955-1991: A Retrospective, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Restany, Pierre

Arman

Exhibition catalogue for the 1993 exhibition of Kenneth Noland's series of paintings based on concentric circles. The book features an extended essay by William C. Agee on Noland's work in the context of other abstract artists, with 36 black-and-white illustrations. Thirty full-color plates display the paintings from the exhibition.

Kenneth Noland: The Circle Paintings 1956-1963

Agee, William C.

Noland, Kenneth

Painting

Texas 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Texas 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This catalogue covers the ABC's of Noland's pictorial vocabulary since he began painting in the 1950s--the circle, the chevron and the stripe. With that foundation, Noland built an influential oeuvre that communicated the substance and associative power of color. This compact retrospective provides a fine overview.

Kenneth Noland: The Nature Of Color (THE MUSEUM OF F)

Wilkin, Karen

Individual Artists

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection

Tucker, Anne Wilkes

Li, Vivian

Starkman, Christine

Martin, Elliott Zooey

Sanchez, Marisa C.

Modern And Contemporary Art At The Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston

Tinterow, Gary

Museum of Fine Arts. Houston

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