Robert Ryman is considered one of the preeminent abstract painters of the last fifty years. This remarkable book features over two dozen of Ryman’s works from the 1960s to the present, all of which demonstrate his keen desire to investigate the essential properties of a paintingits color, surface, texture, support, and relationship to the wall on which it is displayedin order to achieve direct and unmediated painterly effects. The book comprises works from the artist’s own collection as well as from private and museum collections and includes a number of paintings that have never before been published. The beautiful illustrations document the artist’s career-long experimentation with and deviation from whitea basic, universal, and supposedly neutral color that becomes highly flexible and suggestive in Ryman’s handsas well as his interest in using a variety of surfaces, from industrial metal to linen to canvas. Ryman has created an unexpectedly varied, complex, and broad body of work within his chosen boundaries and continues to create some of today’s most challenging paintings.

Robert Ryman

Arts & Photography

Wylie, Charles

History & Criticism

Dallas Museum of Art

The art of Willie Doherty (b. 1959), one of Northern Ireland’s most important artists, joins history, memory, and language into an enveloping experience. This catalogue features two bodies of Doherty’s work: Ghost Story, a tensely beautiful 15-minute media work based on landscape and memory, and a selection of photographs of the borderlands between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Arising from the region’s Troubles, Doherty’s art is nonetheless universal in effect and can be seen independent of any specific context. Charles Wylie’s essay deals with how Ghost Story evokes a mind at work trying to recall unsettling things, and the impact of memory on the present. Through vivid imagery, Doherty creates a cinematic tale of quiet suspense whose evocative text (written by Doherty and published here in its entirety) is narrated by the actor Stephen Rea. Critically acclaimed at the 2007 Venice Biennale, Ghost Story is paired with eleven similar yet distinct large-scale color photographs from the 1990s that in still form powerfully depict the famed Irish landscape as a site of unease amidst lyrical beauty.

Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance: Ghost Story and Landscape

The Dallas Museum of Art

Humor & Entertainment

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Brice Marden: Work of the 1990s : Paintings, Drawings, and Prints

Marden, Brice

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

After leaving Cal Arts in 1990, Gary Simmons (born 1964) moved to New York and set up his studio in a former school building where he found himself clearing away blackboards to make space for his sculpture. Soon after, Simmons began his first series of chalk drawings on blackboards. It was this work, focusing on the development of racial, class and cultural identities through cartoon imagery, which paved the way for his signature "erasure" technique. While Simmons, who has often defined himself as a sculptor, is widely known for the erasure drawings, he has consistently worked across media. This overview of Simmons's 20-plus year career brings together for the first time his photographs, installations, public projects, sculpture, drawings and paintings. Alongside approximately 150 plates, Paradise includes an in-depth interview with Okwui Enwezor, critical essays by Gwen Allen and Charles Wylie and a reprint of an important early text by Nancy Princenthal.

Gary Simmons: Paradise

Princenthal, Nancy

Allen, Gwen

Damiani

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