During the 1960s and 1970s, a loosely affiliated group of Los Angeles artists--including Larry Bell, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler--more intrigued by questions of perception than by the crafting of discrete objects, embraced light as their primary medium. Whether by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or playing with light through the use of reflective, translucent, or transparent materials, each of these artists created situations capable of stimulating heightened sensory awareness in the receptive viewer. Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, companion book to the exhibition of the same name, explores and documents the unique traits of the phenomenologically engaged work produced in Southern California during those decades and traces its ongoing influence on current generations of international artists. Foreword by Hugh M. Davies Additional contributors: Michael Auping, Stephanie Hanor, Adrian Kohn, Dawna Schuld Artists: Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Ron Cooper, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Bruce Nauman, Eric Orr, Helen Pashgian, James Turrell, De Wain Valentine, Doug Wheeler

Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface

Arts & Photography

Adrian Kohn

Robin Clark

Michael Auping

Stephanie Hanor

Dawna Schuld

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed is a 96-page hardcover exhibition catalogue with 36 color plates accompanying the traveling museum exhibition, Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed. The exhibition opened at the Deland Museum Florida (2016) and traveled to the Greenville County Museum, South Carolina (2017); Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York (2018); and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida (2019-2021). Newly discovered materials from the Solomon Archive detail how Syd Solomon's World War II camouflage designs and other early graphic arts skills were foundational to his unique approach to Abstract Expressionism. This new information furthers the understanding of Syd Solomon’s life and work. This exhibition was organized by the Estate of Syd Solomon in conjunction with Berry Campbell, New York. This exhibition catalogue features essays by Michael Auping (former Chief Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and curator of recent exhibitions of Frank Stella and Mark Bradford), Dr. Gail Levin (expert on Lee Krasner and Edward Hopper), George Bolge (Director Emeriti of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida) and Mike Solomon, (artist and the artist’s son). Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Syd Solomon voluntarily joined the War effort as a camouflage expert in the United States Army (1941-1945). His camouflage designs were used during the Normandy invasion and his camouflage instruction manuals were distributed throughout the U.S. Army. Although he arrived to the Abstract Expressionist scene late because of the War, by 1959 his work had gained the admiration of Museum of Modern Art curators, Peter Selz and Dorothy C. Miller, the Whitney Museum of American Art's director, John Baur, and many others, including artists Philip Guston and James Brooks, who became lifelong friends. At this time, Syd Solomon's paintings entered into over 100 museum collections.

Syd Solomon Concealed and Revealed

Dr. Gail Levin

Mike Solomon

Estate of Syd Solomon / Artsentry Inc.

Book by Michael Auping, Susan Rothenberg

Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings

Susan Rothenberg

Rizzoli

Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) is recognized as one of the most crucial and intriguing figures in the early shaping of Abstract Expressionism. Gorky pioneered a complex vocabulary of forms by fusing landscapes remembered from his childhood home in Armenia with surrealist imagery and abstract plumes of color. In so doing, he helped create a distinctly new vision for painting, leading American art into one of the most experimental periods in its history. Gorky's most important paintings and drawings were executed from 1940 through 1947, powerfully expansive years that many regard as his breakthrough period. His rich, mature work of these years is the focus of this illuminating volume, the most comprehensive book on the subject. Michael Auping's valuable text provides an introduction to the life and art of Arshile Gorky as well as an insightful consideration of the grand psychological landscape The Liver is the Cock's Comb, 1944, a work pivotal to the development of Gorky's style. Dore Ashton writes a lucid account of this artist who tends to resist classification, contributing an art historical overview of Gorky's appreciation of such modern innovators of abstraction and Surrealism as Miro and Kandinsky. Matthew Spender provides biographical details of Gorky's early years, while a selection of Gorky's personal letters further sheds an intimate light on the artist and his achievements.

Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years

Dore Ashton

Matthew Spender

Rizzoli / Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments

Harry N. Abrams

From Preface: "Even within the rather compact community involved with contemporary art, the name Jess may not have a familiar ring. Early in a career that began relatively late in life by today's standards, Jess retired to his house and studio in San Francisco, admitted only a few intimate friends, and occasionally showed his work in New York and San Francisco. Jess - the artist dropped his surname some years ago - is an 'outsider' of sorts, supported by a small but loyal following of private collectors and museum professionals who perhaps find in the artist's work what Jane Livingston of the Corcoran Gallery of Art has called a 'horrible fascination.' Jess' art consists of a perplexing world of contrasting historical styles, none of which can fully accommodate or mask the artist's personal eccentricities. While kinship with the Symbolists, Surrealists, Abstract Expressionists, Pop artists and the San Francisco Beat scene is variously evident, the poetic matrix which characterizes Jess' art is, above all else, an extremely personal form of reality. The present exhibition focuses on Jess' Paste-Ups, the artist's modest term for intricate collages made from old magazines, engravings, and newspapers. While they represent only one aspect of the artist's oeuvre, which also includes painting and assemblage, the Paste-Ups are the most intriguing and baffling, their range of personal and historical reference the most dense and inclusive. The Paste-Ups constitute a continuous body of work that reflects a relatively comprehensive biography of Jess' development...." Published by The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in 1983 as the catalogue for an exhibition, December 9, 1983 - February 5, 1984. Illustrated with 66 photographs of the artist's work, most in full color.

Jess, Paste Ups and Assemblies, 1951-1983

John & Mable Ringling

This exhibition, which premiered at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it was seen by more than 144,000 visitors, surveys the achievement over the past 20 years of one of the most important British artists of the postwar era. Consisting of 46 oil paintings borrowed from private and public collections in the United States, Europe and Mexico, Howard Hodgkin Paintings constitutes the first major museum exhibition of Hodgkin's work in the United States in ten years. The exhibition begins with works from 1975, the year Hodgkin achieved a mature and independent style, and concludes with works completed in 1995, including four paintings that have never before been exhibited. Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1975-1995 was organized over the course of four years by the Modern's Director, Dr. Marla Price. The exhibition focuses on the period of Hodgkin's greatest achievement and places particular emphasis on his paintings from 1985 to 1995. The accompanying book includes essays by Michael Auping, John Elderfield and noted author Susan Sontag. Softcover.

Howard Hodgkin: Paintings

John Elderfield

SUSAN SONTAG

Marla Price

Howard Hodgkin

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Tadao Ando's Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: 15 Years, published by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, presents seven interviews with Tadao Ando by Michael Auping between 1998 and 2002 that were previously published in the 2002 book Seven Interviews with Tadao Ando. This new publication features an additional interview from 2015, along with an extensive illustrated chronology of the exhibitions that have been presented in this building and a Curator's Appreciation by Auping. The softcover book is 146 pages, lavishly illustrated with more than 90 images of the Modern, other architectural projects by Ando, photographs of Ando, and more. ISBN 978-0-929865-35-5

Tadao Ando’s Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: 15 Years

Word Pictures: Jess / Ray Johnson. Paste-ups Moticos and Assemblages 1951-1997

Hackett-Freedman Gallery

Wall of Light Sean Scully Muro de Luz

Artes Gráficas Panorama

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