The first comprehensive look at the nearly seven-decades-long career of contemporary Mexican American artist Virginia Jaramillo\nOver the course of her career, Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939) has forged a pathway to exploring ideas and concepts of space through abstract paintings and handmade paper works influenced by her myriad interests including physics, the cosmos, mythology, ancient cultures, and modernist design philosophies. This beautifully illustrated volume demonstrates that despite having been historically excluded from the canon of American abstraction, Jaramillo has made profound contributions to the field.\nVirginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence documents more than 60 works including early paintings that pushed the depth of the painted surface to its very limits; her innovations in the centuries-old practice of handmade papermaking; and recent bodies of work, where Jaramillo engages in deep investigations into antiquity and architectural ruin through large-scale paintings. In addition to an overview of Jaramillo’s life and work, this comprehensive catalogue includes in-depth essays on the artist’s formative years in Los Angeles, her forty-year devotion to hand papermaking, and the recent resurgence of her painting practice. An interview with Jaramillo rounds out the volume.\nDistributed for Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art\nExhibition Schedule: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO 
(June 1–August 27, 2023)

Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence

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Adam Cvijanovic American Montage

Erin Dziedzic

Dark Days, Bright Nights: Contemporary Paintings from Finland

Timo Valjakka

Siah Armajani Bridge Builder

In the history of American art, the contributions of African American artists to the development of abstraction have been largely overlooked.
Magnetic Fields aims to change this perspective by focusing on nonrepresentational work by women artists of color, presenting a more complete presentation of American abstraction than has previously been offered. 
Intergenerational in scope, Magnetic Fields includes more than 20 artists born between 1891 and 1981, among them Lilian Thomas Burwell, Mildred Thompson, Candida Alvarez, Betty Blayton, Nanette Carter, Brenna Youngblood and Jennie C. Jones.

Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Angela Dufresne: Making a Scene", organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and curated by Erin Dziedzic, director of curatorial affairs at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

Angela Dufresne: Making a Scene

William E. Jones

Erin Dziezdic

Melissa Ragona

Polly Apfelbaum: Waiting for the UFOs (a space set between a landscape and a bunch of flowers) Exhibition Catalogue

Ezra Shales

Lynn Zelevansky

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: 25 Years at Kemper Museum

Summer Wheat: Blood, Sweat, and Tears

David Pagel

Anna Stothart

Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives

Kathleen Ash-Milby

Jade Powers

Carmen Hermo

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