<p>Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings brings together more than 70 works spanning 30 years of this remarkable artist's development. It traces the evolution of Hansen's work from his tenderly rendered narrative paintings of the 1970s to bolder canvases in which the palette has become more vibrant, the compositions more complex, and the imagery more iconic.<br>This survey exhibition and illustrated catalogue present an artist of great talent and emotional range, following a deeply American eccentric tradition that includes artists such as H. C. Westermann, Red Grooms, William T. Wiley, and Philip Guston. The book includes an introduction by Museum of Art curator Keith Wells; Hansen's own commentaries, in conversation with Wells, on more than 20 individual paintings; a tribute to Hansen by cartoonist and fellow artist Gary Larson; a chronology highlighting important events and persons in the artist's life; and more than 100 color plates.</p>

Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings

Arts & Photography

Wells, Keith

History & Criticism

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This book brings together forty-two works spanning nearly three decades of Seattle artist Sherry Markovitz's remarkable development. It traces the evolution of her work from the obsessively beaded and extravagantly patterned taxidermy heads to the more subdued and haunting figurative paintings and doll sculptures. The work is intensely alive and transformative, its sources rooted in personal experience set in conversation with diverse cultural paradigms. Throughout more than a quarter century of work, Markovitz has shown a remarkable consistency of vision, intensity of focus, and absolute acceptance of beauty, which she extends regularly to opulence. Through highly informative and engaging essays by Chris Bruce and Josine Ianco-Starrels as well as the artist's own commentaries, Sherry Markovitz: Shimmer provides the defining statement on this unique artist and her captivating work. Chris Bruce is director of the Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman. Josine Ianco-Starrels is the curator at the Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland.

Sherry Markovitz: Shimmer, Paintings and Sculptures, 1979-2006

Bruce, Chris

Ianco-starrels, Josin

Markovitz, Sherry

Individual Artists

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