"Chain Reaction" looks to the influential, early 20th-century cartoonist Rube Goldberg to set the stage for contemporary artists engaged with humorous explorations of mechanical devices and functions. The book will combine drawings from the Williams College Museum of Art's singular collection of original Goldberg material with paintings, video, sculpture, and installations from artists such as Fischli & Weiss, Roman de Salvo, Jeanne Silverthorne, Tim Hawkinson, and more, which celebrate rudimentary processes and logical organization. Edited by Ian Berry. "Flipbook" by Dean Snyder. Afterword by Charles Stainback and Linda Sherer. 70 color. 7.75 x 11.25 in.

Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery

"The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations" brings together examples from five centuries of map making, combining more than 50 geographic maps and atlases with scientific objects, models, genetic sequencing equipment, and artwork by 16 contemporary artists, includung Wim Delvoye, Ed Ruscha, and Ericson + Ziegler, who use map imagery in their work. Edited by Ian Berry. Essays by Susan Bender, Bernard Possidente and Richard Wilkinson. 80 color. 7.75 x 11.25 in.

World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations, The: Mapping Art and Science

This catalogue is a survey of the energetic, abstract paintings and drawings of David Miller, Ella Van Dyke Tuthill Professor of Studio Art at Skidmore College, spanning more than thirty years of his prolific career. This catalogue features an essay by poet and critic John Yau, and a dialogue between Miller and Charles Stainback.

David Miller: A Retrospective

Miller, David & John Yau

Immersed in the desires of poetry and the vocabulary of contemporary art, Jonathan Seliger makes brightly colored paintings that are stretched, folded and glued to form recognizable everyday objects such as envelopes, shopping bags, and pillows. Includes a dialogue between the artist and the Tang curator, Ian Berry and a detailed exhibition history and bibliography.

Jonathan Seliger, Floor Model

Berry, Ian

Religion, invention and aesthetics are explored through the exquisite and simple designs for Shaker furniture, tools, and textiles. These objects are juxtaposed with a group of recent work by twelve artists including, Janine Antoni, Ann Hamilton, Richard Pettibone, and Andrea Zittel. Includes introductions by Ian Berry with Tom Lewis, and biographies of each artist. Hardcover, 2001, 52 pages

Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art

Ian Berry

This catalogue contrasts the turn of the century photographic and ethnographic record of the American Indian as a "disappearing race" by Edward Curtis with new artwork by six contemporary Native artists. Artists; Marcus Amerman, Judith Lowry, James Luna, Shelley Niro, Nora Naranjo-Morse and Bently Spang. Includes a foreward by W.Richard West, essays by Jill Sweet, Katherine Hauser, and Barry Pritzker, interviews with the artists by Ian Berry, and responses by Skidmore College students. Hardcover, 2002, 128 pages.

Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation

Pritzker, Barry

Sweet, Jill Drayson

Hauser, Katherine Jane

Ramirez approaches architectural space as an empty canvas and pushes his abstract paintings into all parts of the space-raising, squeezing and compressing them with solid blocks of color painted directly on the museum walls.

Paul Henry Ramirez: Elevatious Transcendsualistic (Opener Series 2)

Blake's work explores complicated and subtly mixed concepts such as identity, race, relationships and representation. David Deitcher writes in the exhibition catalogue, "Nayland Blake's sculptural installations and performances have revealed a wide range of interests, from popular culture to vanguard subversions; from Camp to the queer body in the age of AIDS; from Sadean and psychoanalytical texts to the toxic legacy of American racism. Like so many American artists whose work emerged during the 1990's, Blake has often dealt with identity, which these individuals envision as a compound process rather than a fait d' accompli."

Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002

Berry, Ian & David Deitcher

In the art of Jim Hodges, ordinary objects become poignant and extraordinary works that transcend the everyday. Likened to souvenirs of living experience, Hodges works are painstakingly assembled visual diaries made from familiar materials such as fabric, mirrors, glass, and light bulbs. These delicate works mark the passage of time, compelling us to reflect on our own experiences of memory and longing.

Jim Hodges: Opener 4

Ian Berry and Ron Platt

Trained in miniature painting in Pakistan, Shahzia Sikander boldly reinvents this tradition in her rich and detailed paintings and animations. Her integration of contemporary motifs and references in a traditional context teases the boundaries imposed by time, gender, religion, and culture in two stylistic approaches. The first is characteristic of miniature painting, while the second features loosely rendered forms suggestive of blood, viscera, and the body. Sikander's compositions renegotiate difference, making fluid the distinctions between past and present, Hindu and Islamic, Eastern and Western.

Shahzia Sikander : Nemesis

Ian Berry and Jessica Hough

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